Gender reveals - what did you do?

kstirton

This is our first - so hubby and I are kind of about making it a deal to do a gender reveal. However I'm torn on what to do! He's got his parents and brothers who live out of town, and my mom who's out of town so would have to plan a special trip or be here already, and my dad who goes to the lake every weekend in the summer. Don't really know how we would get everyone together. Anyone else in a similar situation that came up w/ a great idea!? Would love to hear them!!

Maelara

Can you send out some snail mail with a cute picture and message? That would be nice we are doing a cupcake reveal at N's birthday party on Saturday, it's a surprise and nobody knows it going to be both!

mommymeg143

DH loves to grill out for everyone. We invited everyone over, fed them an awesome meal from the grill and revealed the sex. My mom is amazing and handmade a piñata with a trap door at the bottom for us. We have a lot of children in our life from family, friends and neighbors. So, we stuffed the piñata with pink candies, toys, confetti, etc.. After we opened it the kids went crazy collecting the goodies. It was fun! If you can't get everyone in town together can you have cupcakes delivered to them? We have a GiGi's cupcakes here that delivers.

missnacholover

If we were telling folks what we are having (both sets of grandparents are long distance), we'd probably send them a card and write in it "It's a Boy/Girl!" and instruct them not to open until we are on skype or facetime.

kstirton

Aw love all the surprises, the piñata was such a cute idea!

maebee87

This is our first and we wanted to jump on the reveal wagon and make it fun.

I made a ton of cupcakes after my A/S scan. I filled them with blue filling and then iced them pink and blue. We had our close family over for a reveal. I skyped with my Mom who lives 16 hours away- having her pick a cupcake and I bit into it for her. And for all our out of town family/friends We e-mailed a picture of a blue and pink cupcake, had them reply with their pick and e-mailed back a picture of the cupcakes bitten into  and a note saying It's a boy!  

Whatever you do people will be excited for you!

kjmommy1214

We are boring like @lissydee‌. We called people.

kstirton

Did you all who revealed wait to tell ANYONE until the reveal? My mom and sister are having a really hard time w/ that one lol

krgriffin26

We had most of our family here but my mom and siblings live in another state. We threw a small party with a cake and had my mom on Skype with the iPad. One of my friends held it for them to see everything as it happened. They loved it. Not sure if it would work if you have several members of your family that live in different places from each other though.

kstirton

We have tried to get my M-I-L to Skype and it hasn't happened yet, Tried that for the Pregnancy news, but we could def try again, it'd be worth a shot!

AnnieRoo13

I wanted to do something fun, but no one in the family seemed into it so I just texted them and said "it's a boy". It was kind of anti-climatic to be honest. I wish I'd made them wait!

Maelara

AnnieRoo13 said:

I wanted to do something fun, but no one in the family seemed into it so I just texted them and said "it's a boy". It was kind of anti-climatic to be honest. I wish I'd made them wait!

I accidentally slipped to my mom so she knows but it will be a surprise for everyone else. They all know we found out on Tuesday but don't know when we are telling them

abbyful

We told immediately family (our parents and siblings) via text message right after the doctor appointment.

For everyone else, we posted this on Facebook:

Tinnerina

I'm planning on inviting our parents and siblings over for cake the day we find out. I'm gonna try and make one of these I already have blue m&m's that my sister brought home from London on a whim, so I'll wait till the day of, to find out if I need to get me some pink ones.  

By the way, the eight is still sooooo far away!

ShelleyElla22

I made these shirts for my boys to wear when family was coming over for a cook out. It took some of them 20+ minutes to notice!

Bethyboo26

We had about 40 friends and family over and shot a massive balloon filled with confetti out of the sky....(BB gun style). It was tons of fun and I'm so glad we did it!

krgriffin26

Wolkie said:

Well looks like we are totally out of the boat on this one! WE aren't even gonna know until the gender reveal babyshower! I'm going for my a/s on the 10th but if doc can see he must not tell us. Write it down, seal tight. We take it to the baker and only he knows. On the baby shower every one must wear their "team" color and when we cut into the cake the inner icing will be either blue or pink. So surprise for EVERYONE!

This is what DH and I did. We didn't know until our party. It was fun because we took "Team" pictures and only DH and about 5 others out of about 25 people total were right! super fun! We will probably do it again for #2 in a few years

mander82

@Bethyboo26   I LOVE what you guys did !   I might copy that!    Did you have the balloon filled somewhere,  or did you guys do it yourselves ?

Not sure if any of the balloon filling places would fill a balloon with confetti for me, or if I would have to fill a balloon with confetti,  and then take it to them to blow up with helium.   hmmmmm.....

 

My plan was to buy about 20 cans of silly string in the right color,  then make half of them pink,  half of them blue.   I was going to make everyone pick a team,  then the teams would line up facing each other and spray the shit out of each other.    Balloon might be cheaper though.   Shooting things is always fun  

morrkim

We don't have any family close so we decided to go to the store and get onsies and sent them a picture of the onsies saying our first outfits for the babies.

Bethyboo26

@mander82‌ I gave my results to a friend who went to get the balloon for us and she said they were super accommodating. We ended up having to get one of those $20 ones because we needed the bigger neck to fit it all. They were also able to fit a blue rubber ducky in as well.

We went to party city, btw!

kstirton

Ok one more question - now we are talking about where one of us blows up the balloon of the right color in a picture... and sending it as a text. too impersonal?? that way everyone is told at the same time?? What do you guys think?? We're thinking trying to have a gender reveal party right now (when I've committed already to a 4th of july get together at our house) may be a little too hectic.

maebee87

I like the balloon blowing up idea! I've seen others post those on facebook and they are so cute!

I don't think it is too impersonal, especially since your schedule is hectic and your family is all over. Good luck

ARZamora1111

We are converting our annual 4th of July party to a gender reveal, so the question will be Red or Blue? Decided to get a big canvas and fill water balloons with a paint/water mixture. There will be red and blue balloons so everyone can pick what they think it will be, but all the balloons will be filled with shades of blue. Hopefully we'll get a cool blue, water-color-ish canvas that we can paint something on and hang in the nursery.

Forgot to add that we'll videotape it for Facebook and those who can't make it to the party.

Bethyboo26

@kstirton‌ I have seen that idea and think that it's cute too! Have fun with it!!!

kfo22

Tinnerina said:

I'm planning on inviting our parents and siblings over for cake the day we find out. I'm gonna try and make one of these I already have blue m&m's that my sister brought home from London on a whim, so I'll wait till the day of, to find out if I need to get me some pink ones.  

By the way, the eight is still sooooo far away!

I want to copy this! wonder where I can find these MnMs....

kstirton

doctor's office called and just rescheduled - doctor had an emergency. 30 minutes before my appointment!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! I'm over it now, Appointment is for tomorrow at 9:15. Gah!

LishaT92

I have a daughter who is 3 and she will be opening a box of either pink or blue balloons and we will have it photographed to show to everyone to announce the gender of baby #2. We find out on July 7! I feel as though I can't know soon enough!!

Ineedmorecoffee

I called people and posted a cute picture of some girl clothes on instagram. I'm not into the huge AW photo ops/reveals because they all seem way over done and I couldn't think of anything original. Maybe for the next kid!

Bethyboo26

@kstirton‌ so sorry! Eat some really good food tonight as compensation

turtles7

I just called my parents and told them. I originally wanted to invite the parents to the 3d ultrasound appointment and for all of us to find together but the place recommends to get the ultrasound at 25 weeks. I can't wait that long.

At work, I took a poll then put pink balloons in a box and revealed it that way.

On Facebook, I posted a picture of cute baby shoes.

bustarmu21

We had our reveal on Sunday - got chocolate cupcakes made and only 1 had the colored filling. DH and I found out with everyone else, his mom got the "lucky" cupcake. It was blue! It was very exciting and I'm glad we did it.

yess0311

We had our dr put the results in a sealed envelope, took it to a buildabear shop, picked out a boy and girl outfit and asked the cashier to look at the results and to dress the bears accordingly for us. She was very helpful!! She even put the boxes in big bags for us so we couldn't see through the little windows on the boxes. We drove straight to my moms for a Sunday family lunch and invited DH's mom and sis to join us. I had my sis-in-law film us as we opened the boxes and I sent the video to my brother, sister and dad who are out of town. It was nice to share the moment with my family

kstirton

Everyone has such cute ideas! After a VERY emotional day yesterday - we found out (90%) what the gender is, doctor won't confirm until a/s on the 9th ... I ended up telling my mom and sister, I can't keep a secret to save my life and DH was upset b/c we had agreed to wait until it was confirmed... the reveal turned into such a freaking huge ordeal with getting everyone together, money, etc, that we decided to call everyone and tell them. lol All that emotional upheaval!! I do think the gender reveals are a super fun and cute idea, but it was causing us too much grief just trying to plan everything.

jmichlik

I'll add one to the "boring" list, we just called and told people it's a girl. Everyone knew what day we were finding out but we typically see our families in person about once a month and just didn't feel like waiting to share the news.

Irishprncss19

DH called his family and I called mine. Then we attached this picture to Facebook and said "surprise it's a boy!" Because everyone thought we were having a girl

cgreen917

This was my Facebook announcement

missiongirl78

We didn't do anything huge for the gender reveal, but I did surprise DH with the results.  I had the maternity21 test and so I found out over the phone what the sex was. We're having a girl and just had a boy 13 months ago.  I was so excited to have one of each!  This is probably it for us as I am 36 and DH is about to turn 44. Anyway, I got the call from the dr office in the morning and knew I couldn't keep it a secret overnight so I had to think of something quickly that I could do to surprise him that evening after work.  So I went to our favorite cupcake place and bought a cup cake that was chocolate with strawberry icing.  I got a card and wrote a note from our future daughter to her daddy with the cupcake.  It was so funny because when DH got home, he stuffed the cupcake down without even looking at the card.  I said, "don't you want to read the card that came with that PINK cupcake?!"  He read it and said, "really?"  He's nervous about having a daughter.  He thinks he's going to cry every day over her.  She'll definitely have him wrapped around her finger!    

katieadele12

We are having everyone together for dinner on the 3rd of July and when it gets dark someone will light off blue or pink fireworks. We are planning to have the tech seal the gender in an envelope then we will give it to a friend right before it's time to shoot it off and we will find out with everyone else!

jlove253

katieadele12 said:

We are having everyone together for dinner on the 3rd of July and when it gets dark someone will light off blue or pink fireworks. We are planning to have the tech seal the gender in an envelope then we will give it to a friend right before it's time to shoot it off and we will find out with everyone else!

We are going to do something similar with dh's family, but we will know already. With dd we just told them all with a text. My SIL and bil got everyone together to tell, and they all want something similar so we are appeasing. I'm excited hope your reveal goes well!

Celticlass6

I would love to do the cake route for family, but considering we leave on vacation the day after we find out, its would be to hectic to do anything. Will probably just call family instead, but do cupcakes for work when I go back.

kfo22

For telling DH, someone gave me the idea to put a white carnation in blue/pink water (food coloring), cover up the water, and make him wait a few hours