My parents live 9 hours away. We called a local bakery in their hometown, ordered a cake, but then asked the baker to decorate it just after we found out. We sent my mom an email with a poem on it (the ladies here gave me the words for it....can't quite remember it now, but if you want the words, I'll search my email for them). The end of the poem had directions on how to find out the surprise. So, when she arrived at the bakery, she picked up a cookie cake with "It's a girl," decorated on it with pink and white balloons.
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I just called them. I did a cute way to reveal we were pregnant and it went over like a fart in church, so I wasn't going out of my way to do anything for the reveal.
Re: gender revealing ideas
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