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Baby shower locations in SE Michigan?
I was wondering if anyone had any affordable location suggestions for a Baby Shower in SE Michigan. ?I live in Ferndale and was hoping for somewhere local but sort of funky and hip if possible? ?I like the idea of an inside/outside location since my shower will be in the early summertime but I am struggling with ideas. ?My sister is pregnant now, and 3 months ahead of me, but she wants to plan my shower. ?I was hoping to give her a head start since I know she will be totally overwhelmed when her baby comes. ?Any suggestions would be appreciated. ?Thanks!
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Re: Baby shower locations in SE Michigan?
MacRay's or Gino Surf both in Harrison Township and on Lake St Clair.
Cherry Creek Golf Course in Shelby Twp. is nice and affordable with indoor/outdoor options.
You may be able to do Royal Park Hotel in Rochester affordable too.
MacRays is always good as PP said.
It really depends on your budget...there are lots of choices, but some are very pricey. For outdoor - you could try The Europa Bistro in Rochester. They have a very nice patio that backs up to Paint Creek River. We have eaten outside there before and it's nice. Good food too. I think that Big Rock in Birmingham also has an outdoor area you can use for events.
For a fun, indoor more economical choice, try Sweet Lorraine's in Southfield. They have good food and a reasonable price for a private room (little or no room fee). They also have excellent desserts!
Ernies Kings Mill Inn
19 Mile between Garfield and Hayes
It is indoor and outdoor, great food and atmosphere!
After I wrote this thread, we lost the baby. Of course I have heard so much about this and the statistics are outrageous for loss. In any event, we are PG again now, just found out. But I really wanted to comment on this because, I threw an amazing shower for my sister and I wanted to share it for anyone out there looking for ideas about having a shower (as I was when I wrote this!) Plus now we are due in December, so it would be a fall shower. So any ideas you may have for that shower would be great. (SE Michigan).
So we just had her shower in March, My sister and I are English so we love to get together and go for High Tea at the tea parlours. As as result, she really wanted a Tea Party Baby Shower. It was a great idea. But it was very difficult based on the number of guests she had. I figure, the average shower is about 40-50 people. Obviously some are larger and some are much smaller. I assumed the average. She ended up having about 75 people- Phew! This would have been fine had the shower been catered, but we had decided to do this all ourselves. Anyway, there were 3 of us who organized the bulk of it. We had gone to all the Salvation Army stores, and Flea markets we could find to buy antique china to use. I discovered we should have been hitting Estate sales! They are the best for the deals. Also, the favors were the cup and saucer, and the prizes were teapots. I found great deals on new teapots and sugar/creamer sets at Homegoods. We had the family all chip in with the cooking, so that was good. We bought a box of cheap round vases from Oriental trading and bought inexpensive fresh flowers (gerber daisies) for the center pieces, and dollar store plastic lace tablecloths for the tables. But our hall we used, was too small. My advice for a DIY baby shower from all this:
1. Find a hall with a large kitchen and plenty of tables/chairs. You need areas for the gifts, the diapers, the food etc. (We did not take these things into account and were a little starved for space).
2. Have your food set up as you are serving it before you leave your house. This way, you save time at the end when putting the food out, since all you have to do it take off the cling film. It is too much to try and set it up to look pretty once you get there. (Try to have everything as "done" as possible before the actual event). Believe me, it doesn't work when you are trying to do so many other things!
3. Formulate a checklist and then delegate! Try to have everyone assigned with easy tasks, so as not to overwhelm them. They may volunteer to do more and if so, take them up on it! You need all the help you can get. (At least when you DIY like we did.)
4. Start planning as early as you can. Obviously, it is not appropriate in the first trimester, but as soon as it ends I would say go for it. We were shopping every day off to get all the items we needed. (We all work full-time).
4. Note extra unexpected expenses will pop up- try to budget for them! For example, we forgot about silverware. We had all bone china plates and cups, and it felt wrong to have plasticware. I had not accounted for this and found myself buying whatever I could to make up 75+ sets of silverware. Not as easy to find as you think. Stainless steel is sold and recycled. In the end, I found Ikea had some inexpensive sets, a 4 person place setting for $4. The best deals were at Estate sales, which I missed the boat on. I hadn't thought of this until too late. I found a full tray of someones silverware for $3! Those are the deals we needed from the start! Again, you need time to travela round and go to all of them, plus they can really be hit or miss.
5. Large workforce community? They should be throwing a separate shower for the mum to be. I found it somewhat unfair that we had to accommodate people who are not even considered a friend. I know it sounds kind of selfish on my part. But I am certain our shower would have been far more managable had we not had to consider those extra 20-30 people. Obviously someone there has to volunteer to do it, but I felt somewhat taken advantage of with this, and in hindsight I would have suggested that my sister told her coworkers we could not have a shower for more than 45, which may have spurred someone there to offer to do that for her. I guess if not, we didn't really have a choice since I did just want to make her happy but still, just think about this when you are planning your next shower! Maybe if we had thought of it earlier on, it would have been a non issue.
I think that covers it. I just wanted to put out there where we could have done this differently to ensure your shower runs more smoothly and less stressfully! All in all, it was a wonderful shower though. Like I said, a great idea but better planning for next time.
So back to me, Fall shower ideas??
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