Where are you from? I am thinking this must be a regional thing. Until the bump, I had never heard of having a party to reveal the news.
We were team green, but the standard is here is parents find out and if they want others to know they call some friends and family and the news gets spread. No party, no cupcakes, nothing like that.
Maybe us snarky NYers just can't be bothered. But, based on the number of posts I have seen about these parties, they must be really popular somewhere, so I am curious now.
Re: Those who have had/ will have a gender reveal party....
We were team green, had a girl.
But you idea is awesome! Maybe for the next one, but I would want it catered in the hospital.
If you schedule a c-section or induction, you'll be able to give the hospital kitchen advance notice... then you can just have the hospital's cafeteria cater it for you. I mean, they already have the food carts, individually wrapped slices of bread and those little domes that keep the food at a nice lukewarm temperature.
For the record, I'm in podunk rural Pennsylvania. We don't have such things here. We just got our own Wal-Mart.
H's sister lives outside of Los Angeles. They don't have such events there either. She's an AW any-excuse-to-have-a-party-to-show-off-her-$$ type. She'd have flown us out there and thrown a party if it was normal to do out there. She's that into appearances.
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Ditto. I live in bumf*ck (we also just got a Walmart...) and I'm actually from a real city and I have never heard of it before. I think its LAME. I also think these "diaper parties" for husbands that people ask about are the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I wouldn't throw or attend either one.
I don't see anything wrong with that. We live out of state but if we were living near our family (and if we were finding out the sex), I think that would be a cute idea to do with the grandparents so they could all find out together. I think there is a huge difference between telling your family over dessert, and throwing an all-out party with invitations and everything.
I think all of this is so funny...we will have a sibling reveal, for reasons I wrote in the other post. I'm in the Southeast...we love a party for no reason other than it's Tuesday. Gotta bring out the china and silver someway...
I'm thinking that DD should have her own sibling registry for stuff she'll need when the baby comes. At our local BRU, you can register for Apple products, so since she'll need an iPad, we'll probably do it there.
Are you kidding me? This is a whole new kind of gift grab. Why the H does your kid need an iPad? I'm 30 effing years old and don't need an iPad. And if YOU think she needs one buy it yourself. Don't expect other's to buy your kid something to make her feel special just because you decided to pop out another little bundle of poop.
Totally agree. I'm horrified by the bolded. WTF!!!!???
Yes she's being sarcastic...Y'all are too easy.
Yes, I was kidding with you. You need to relax. Anyway, she already has an iPad.
I live in Wisconsin and I have never heard of a gender reveal party. But.....it does sound like something fun to do with close family over for dinner or on a girls night.
I did something similar with my female students (I teach at a middle school and have one girls-only class that I'm close with.) Anyway, when we found out it was a girl I bought a white cake, red dye, and chocolate frosting. One of the girls cut into the cake to reveal the pink inside and then we chowed down. It was a ton of fun and the girls got the biggest kick out of it.
I'm from a small town in Texas and the gender reveal parties are big here. We plan on having one. Although...a lot of you are posting about just another way to load up on gifts...from what I'm aware of nobody brings a gift. Friends and family get together and you have a baker or whoever bake your cake and when you cut into it you can see what the sex is. So it's a surprise to the parents to be and the friends and family. Just a fun way to break the news and celebrate!
Here is a friend of mine's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ZDM38gno8
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I'm in TN and work at a cupcake shop and we've done quite a few. Everyone at work is delighted that I'm going to do a gender reveal cupcake. Like others said, I'm not expecting any gifts. It will probably be a light luncheon to just share the surprise with my coworkers/friends/and family. It's the first baby in our company and they squealed with delight when I told them I wanted to do it.
I really have no idea where all this negativity and holier than thou attitude comes from some posters.
It's fine if you want to do it and fine if you don't!