Having a baby shower What did you do for yours?

[Bumpnthree]

Just wondering what you ladies did for your baby showers?

Any advice Ideas would be appreciated ))))

 

[beachgal]

Well my work friends threw me a beach theme potluck shower last month and my mom is throwing me a tropical themed shower at her house in a couple of weeks.
For the first shower we played a few games - name the artist of the song with the word baby in it, guess the celebrity baby and a beach ball toss where you had to quickly say what you would bring to the beach with your baby (hilarious).
With my moms shower I know she will have appetizers, wine, non alcoholic punch and gifts for the attendees. Not sure about the games though...
I hope that helps?

 

[Mjane84]

My Mom and SIL are teaming up to throw me one on June 1. My SIL insisted on having it catered, but really, I don't think that's necessary. You can either do appetizers or even just a sandwich platter. I saw one idea that I liked which was an afternoon tea type of thing with finger sandwiches and sweets.

The best baby showers I've been to have been low key. This is hard, because I am having to reign my SIL in (she wants assigned seating/place cards). We are having it at a recreation hall, and I know my Mom and a few friends are going to a party store and getting a ton of decorations and games.

My theme is butterflies, which I love. My Mom got centerpieces of butterfly bushes, which will be given away to someone at each table as part of a game. And in the favors bag, we are putting butterfly picture frames and seeds for butterfly bushes.

 

[MomPepperdine]

The baby showers around here are just close friends family at someones house with pizza or like subs and chips with soda or tea we play a few games (guess the size of the belly don't say baby or babys name present bingo) and hang out its more like the girls just getting together

 

[MomPepperdine]

Oh and cake! Can't forget cake!

 

[Smudge101]

My best friend is throwing me a shower and I'm not allowed the know anything.

I literally know the time and place and that's it.

I didn't really want a shower so this is more of an afternoon get together with my close friends with an afternoon tea theme. Well I hope that's what it is!

 

[Sparkles237]

I had mine last weekend and it was lovely. We had a table that had buffet food to pick at and there was a cake specially made for it. We played some games like guess the ultra sound, guess what chocolate the baby had eaten (melted chocolate inside a nappy) and pin the dummy on the baby. My shower was set for 3 hours 5-8pm and it flew by, everyone chatted, played a game, chatted more, dished up the food, played another game, chatted, played another game then opened presents. It went over the 3 hours and some stayed till approx 10.

 

[Feronia]

My coworkers threw me one and invited my DH. We all had a vegan potluck, which was very thoughtful of them, and I got some nice gifts. It was awesome because they knew I planned to use cloth diapers, so they got me things that would compliment that. It was very lovely! I didn't have one with family, though, since they are all thousands of miles away.

 

[Young1stMom]

My lady friends and I all went for spa pedicures and then out for lunch and some shopping. It was really simple which is what i wanted. My husband and I have everything we need for our lil one as we inherited a BUNCH of stuff from my brother who just had a baby girl also. So i didnt want a huge party for presents and what not.

 

[PurpleIvy44]

I had mine last weekend at a restaurant. It was a buffet lunch and they had a custom cake brought in. We had 2 door prizes, if you bring any kind of diapers your put in a drawing and when you fill out the thank you card envelope you're put in for a prize. We played 4 games, guess my tummy size. It was actually very funny to see how big people thought I was. Everyone over shot it by a lot & everyone was laughing and have a good time guessing. We did Baby Trivia, Baby Bingo and Don't Say Baby. My theme was purple & butterflies and the centerpieces we custom made were given away at the end to whoever had a special sticker on their candy favor. My aunt made special pretzel chocolate favors that said baby or had baby footprints on it. It was a beautiful weekend and everyone had a great time, I loved every minute.