Haha, I feel like it! I just got my address list to my best friend who is throwing me a shower...and other than the two of us, it only has fifteen girls on it. My family all lives across the country so won't be attending, and I am not inviting anyone I'm not reasonably close to. I keep seeing posts about showers with 50+ people though (and the one with 120 guests!)
Anyone else have a small shower?
Re: Am I the only one with no friends ???
The best baby shower I have ever attended (and I have been to a ton) had 10 people in attendance. We were all able to chat with each other as well as the mom to be and the food was fabulous. I hope you have a great shower!
I had about 16 ppl @ my shower and it was PERFECT!!
I don't live near family so I didn't have to invite my neighbor's best friend's dogsitter just because I have known her forever
I will likely only have about 15 people at my shower...my invite list is about 25 but several of those people are WAY out of town and I'm about 99% sure they will not be there. This includes all of my side of the family and my closest friends.
We may have a shower in DH's hometown but honestly there would only be about 10 people there. I wouldn't know 50 people to invite to these showers combined if I tried...I don't know if others just have big families or what!
He's growing up, but he'll always be my baby!
Nathan--11/4/10
...big brother to...???? Due March 2014!
awww, don't feel badly! i had friend who had 100+ guests at her shower but they are not her good friends. to me, i think quality matters more than quantity when it comes to friends. invite whoever you feel you should invite, there is no right or wrong way to do things. have fun at your shower!
15 friends is something! I am literally not having a shower because I would be embrassed if there were only 6 people there. Which there would be and they are all family.
I have been to several showers for "friends" the past few months and I know for a fact that they wouldn't come to my shower so I refuse to have one. I really don't have anyone close in my life and can afford to buy all of my baby's things anyways so I'm skipping the whole shower scene.
If anyone gives us a shower, it will be tiny. I have no family within 1500 miles and very few close girlfriends. Like you, I refuse to think about inviting people that i'm not pretty close to. We're operating under the "not having one" assumption. A friend has offered, but she's a flake and i doubt she'll ever bring it up again.
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I think the proximity of family makes a huge difference. Both DH and I grew up in this area and almost all of our family lives here. If we lived even just a few hours away our guest list would be about half of what it is.
As far as friends go, I have very few as well. My Family shower is huge and ridiculous, my friends shower is small and intimate. I am looking forward to my friend shower much more than the family one.