Gender reveal party

Klamey327

Is anyone planning on having a Gender reveal party? If so, how are you going about planning it? I want to plan but I know we may or may not find out the sex at our 16 week appointment. If we do find out I want to have the party the next week because I know I won't be able to wait much longer! What to do about invitations?! Help and advice appreciated!

mcstrepp

I am doing a cake but am not planning to send invitations. I am only having our immediate family and one friend. I just told them the date but told them it is subject to change incase the baby doesn't cooperate.

Everyusernameistaken

Just have people over for dinner and do the reveal as a surprise, that way no one will feel obligated to bring a gift.

braybee

I thought about doing one but couldn't wait to tell my family the sex as soon as I found out! I know Pinterest has some great ideas though

JD83

Agreed about the invites. Nothing formal. Just do word of mouth or an email or something. The more formal you get, the more formal your guests will think the event is.

TBarker925

We are telling the grandparents at Easter. Since we visit both families, we are letting our mothers unwrap a present with a gender specific piece of clothing in it. That's as much as we can keep a secret.

suitern

I think we are going to probably find out and then I will put something together for our long distance families since we live on the other side of the country. We will maybe use balloons and have DS open a box and that way we can do it with both families .

A&DPritchett2be

We aren't doing a party, but I am trying to think of a way to tell our parents. We all live in different states, so it has to be long distance.

NClady89

I think gender reveals are cute as long as it's not over the top and limited to family and close friends otherwise it gets a little AWish. I would go with email/word of mouth, invitations are way to formal for that type of party. Like someone else said pinterest has really cute ideas esp for themed type snacks.

Lynnea Grace

We're doing the Hershey bar idea that I'm sure many of you have seen if you're on Pinterest. We'll either color the "he" blue or the "she" pink. DH and I are going to reveal the sex at Easter! So excited! I guess that doesn't really count as a party, but the family will be together DH and I figured it would be the perfect time. 

mikrinikki

I just made it a facebook event and was going to invite people over for dinner. Then all the ladies asked what they could bring..so I added byob but then if you think it is a girl, bring an app... boy bring a dessert (adding a bit of fun to it). I also will do blue/pink divided theme with beads to wear on what you think it is. After dinner we release balloons from a box. Ours is Thursday and I am very excited!

rebennett06

We decided to skip the party and instead sent out cards with blue and pink balloons inside to all our family members (the pink one had a hole in it) with instructions to inflate the balloons to find out boy or girl! That way it was a surprise (no one knows we had a ultrasound) and they all found out at (approximately) the same time!

JulyMomma2U2

We did a cake reveal for my first.. very informal.. was just both sets of parents and siblings and our family friend who baked the cake for us.. just invited by word of mouth.  I will say, a friend of mine did a much larger gender reveal.. sent out invitations and such, even did a diaper well at the party.. I guess it depends on your style and how many people you're planning to invite.. for us, we thought the gender reveal (ie cake cutting) was more personal, and wanted it to be just immediate family..

Also, we brought a manilla envelope with us to the ultrasound.. had the tech print an image, write the sex on it, and seal it in the envelope that way DH and I weren't tempted to peak!! We dropped it off at the bakery on the way home

JD83

We're not doing the typical reveal. We're going to know already, but I'm probably going to make cake pops for my neighborhood and then maybe send a picture frame to the grandparents, but kudos to you guys for going all out!

rockychryslerb2010

We did one for E before I knew it was a thing, probably won't do one for this baby.  We just invited (email, text or phone) our immediate family to come over for a BBQ, they didn't even know we knew the sex. 

For dessert, we pulled out cupcakes filled with blue frosting they found when they ate their cupcake.  It was cute, and made for some great memories, but it took all of 10 min max.  I always wonder what happens at a true gender reveal party, how do they last longer than 10-15 min?!

SouthernMomma+3

We are not doing one, just NMS. But I think it is silly to have a reveal party if you and DH already know the sex. The point of it is to get to share the experience of finding out the sex with your guests.

bumpuser10199668

JD83 said:

We're not doing the typical reveal. We're going to know already, but I'm probably going to make cake pops for my neighborhood and then maybe send a picture frame to the grandparents, but kudos to you guys for going all out!

Your whole NEIGHBORHOOD cares about the sex of your baby???

AnyMax

carmstr4 said:

JD83 said:

We're not doing the typical reveal. We're going to know already, but I'm probably going to make cake pops for my neighborhood and then maybe send a picture frame to the grandparents, but kudos to you guys for going all out!

Your whole NEIGHBORHOOD cares about the sex of your baby???

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Yea that sounds like going all out to me....

JD83

AnyMax said:

JD83 said:

We're not doing the typical reveal. We're going to know already, but I'm probably going to make cake pops for my neighborhood and then maybe send a picture frame to the grandparents, but kudos to you guys for going all out!

Your whole NEIGHBORHOOD cares about the sex of your baby???

---- Yea that sounds like going all out to me....

Not the entire neighborhood (which is pretty small), but I have a very close-knit group of about six other families that we hang out with quite a bit. We quite often share desserts anyway so I thought it might be fun to work that announcement in. I don't see them minding.

Beedeck

We are announcing to our families on Easter, my anatomy scan is scheduled for the Wednesday prior. I plan to fill plastic eggs with either pink or blue "It's a ___" Hershey kisses. I'm not sure if I will hand them out or include them in the Easter egg hunt. They will be shocked regardless since we told them our apt is not until the following week.

braybee

SouthernMomma+3 said:

We are not doing one, just NMS. But I think it is silly to have a reveal party if you and DH already know the sex. The point of it is to get to share the experience of finding out the sex with your guests.

At my cousin's reveal party they had their sister find out so she could plan the party and that way, they found out the sex at the same time as the guests... I would never be able to do that though, but everyone is different!

brittneyandadam

We had genetic testing done and announced the sex when we announced our pregnancy.