Hi Everyone,
My mom has generously offered to throw me a baby shower for my first child (due in August). I'm sure she will do a great job, since she and my grandmother did an amazing job with my wedding shower. The problem is I think the guest list will be really tiny. The shower is in my hometown (a few hours from where I live now), and a lot of my closest friends are now scattered across the country. Plus, my family is really small, and my husband's family lives in another city. I would be surprised if there were more than 10 people at the shower altogether, and there may very well be fewer than that.
Has anyone ever attended or had a shower this small? All of the ones I have been to have been at least 20-30 people. Will a tiny shower even work? I would love the opportunity to see some friends and celebrate my pregnancy, but I don't want to make my guests uncomfortable or feel bad for me.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me!
Re: Tiny Shower--Need Advice
DS actually came 3 weeks early so he was present at the shower. Those who attended were family and 3 of my closest friends all people I felt comfortable letting them hold ds if they wanted.
We were all able to have great conversation the entire time, eat delicious food and cake, and open presents.
I prefer things to be "low key elegant" if you will, so in my eyes it was perfect.
It was especially perfect this way for me as I'd been discharged from the hospital 5 days earlier and anything more would have had me anxious, uncomfortable and ds would have been having a day with dh.
Thank you so much for sharing your comments and stories! I feel much better now. I was just worried because I had only been to large showers with games involving a lot of people, huge dishes of food, long present opening sessions, etc. I'm so excited now to share this special event with the ones closest to me!
Then again, I'm not at all a people person, so maybe that's why.
Married 4/13/13
Loss at 6 weeks 5/4/2013
Loss at 9 weeks 12/2013
Healthy baby boy 7/12/15
Due 1/6/18