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Anyone else having a gender reveal party?
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DH and I decided on this tonight. I was working on invites, but I can't come up with the wording. Any help would be lovely!
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Re: Anyone else having a gender reveal party?
Is the party going to focus on the revealing, or it is going to be just a random party where you reveal the gender? If you make it a baby-centered party, it really comes across as some sort of gift giving event or something.
I don't know that you should plan a specific date and make it all about the gender - what will you do if the baby doesn't cooperate at the ultrasound?
The plan is to invite everyone over and reveal after dinner with cake/cupcakes/something. We in no way are looking for gifts, and would mention that on the invite. It's going to be immediate family and our closest friends...so if the baby doesn't cooperate during the u/s, then we just make a few phone calls and delay it. We won't be having it the same night..it would be that weekend.
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Thanks for getting where I'm coming from.
Yeah, people are probably happy for you that's you're having a baby, but generally they don't care THAT much. You'll probably have a baby shower, and then people will make a fuss, etc. when the baby is born, then there's the baptism or whatever religious ceremony. It's tacking on another event.
You say that it's just immediate family and close friends - then why do you need to go all out for invitations? It seems to be a bit much.
I'm really not trying to come down on you for your excitement, but mommies-to-be tend to forget that while your LO is the center of your world, your LO (especially yet-to-be-born LO) isn't the center of everyone else's world.
We had one. It was just our parents and siblings over for dinner the night that we had the ultrasound. They all knew that there was a chance that the baby wouldn't cooperate and if that was the case then we were just having dinner. LOL We did it because of the timing of my bfp (12/30 so no drinking on New Years) we didn't do anything special to announce the pg, we just called after work. To announce it I made a cake and the frosting in the middle was blue, the outside frosting was white and said "Sugar and Spice or Frogs 'n Snails?"
I agree with danilynn though that since you are doing something smallish you don't really need invites, you can just call them to invite them over. That way it's still fun but low key. Have fun!
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Long gone are the days when parents and friends find out the gender in the hospital waiting room. Although the wait won't be as long, we invite our family and friends to gather around and be surprised together! Come be the first to know if our little sweetie is a BOY or a GIRL!
Join us for an afternoon of BBQ, sweets, surprises and treats to celebrate Sparkelz Birthday and share in our big announcement.
Don't be late - BBQ starts around 3 and DD will cut the cake at 4 to reveal the big surprise to family and friends!
Wear PINK or BLUE to cast your vote for a baby GIRl or a baby BOY.
We had one and it was a blast. I disagree with people who say that you are the only one that cares that much. And if you family doesn't care, they don't have to come.
We invited both families and a few of our close friends. I just did an email and Facebook invite.
It said something like Join us as we find out whether Baby G will be a He or a She!
Our families were VERY excited at this idea. We did not ask for gifts or mention registries and the only gift we got was from my mom... but she would've gotten us a gift regardless of whether or not we have a party to reveal, she just wanted to buy us something.
We had pink sherbert punch, pink and blue cupcakes and had a friend of a friend make a pink cake covered in yellow frosting (blue if it was a boy). We invited everyone over for dessert around 7, cut into the cake to find out the gender and just hung out. We didn't know either, we had the u/s tech write it down and seal it in an envelope and passed it to the friend. HTH, have fun! It is really a special and exciting time!!
I wouldn't send invites. Just give them a call or send an e-mail.
I agree with PP, no one really cares about the gender as much as you do. If you are pairing it with another occasion, I guess that's okay, but having a separate event for it seems AWish to me.
I'm not trying to be harsh, JMO
P.S. Please don't ask them to wear pink or blue to cast a vote
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We didn't do this just because my DH and I live in separate cities from our families, but I would have LOVED to!
I know a couple who just did and it was the cutest idea. It was not a gift giving party by any means, just dinner with their families and 'dessert'. When they had their u/s to reveal the gender, they didn't find out, they had the nurse write boy or girl and put it in a sealed envelope. They took that to the bakery and had them make a pink or blue cake covered in white frosting. So, when they cut the cake after dinner, they all found out together. I thought it was pretty sweet.
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I love going all out and doing fun things that seem completely unnecessary to people. For example, at Thanksgiving last year, even though only 7 people were there, I created envelope name cards and put a special "why i'm grateful for you" card in each one.
I say DEFINITELY do the invitations. Even if people think you're over the top with it, who cares! You're having fun and that's all that matters! I liked the idea that a previous post did "join us for dinner to find out if baby _ is a He or a She."
You could even make a game out of it. Like, make baby pins that have like "Team He" or "Team She" on it and give out prizes to whoever guesses it right. Since it's just going to be small it wouldn't be too expensive to hit the dollar store or michael's and buy some inexpensive, but fun stuff just to make it a little more exciting and interactive for the guests.
good luck!!
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I love the idea!
We live on the other side of the country from all of our family, so I am thinking when I travel home (and we have a baby shower) we will do it then- (of course it is going to be hard to keep it a secret for so many months prior to that), but I also agree about getting too much stuff; we have already told our mothers that we prefer second-hand clothes or organic clothes, but there are only boys in the family right now, so if they find out it is a girl, we are going to be inundated with more pink stuff than we (or our one bedroom place) knows what to do with...
If I see any cute wording in the next few days I will let you know! BTW- I LOVE paper and invitations! I send cards to friends and family all the time! Definitely send invitations!
See, I think this is such a cute idea-with you guys not knowing as well.
I'm not doing a gender-revealing party, it's a little too over the top for me and I am agreeing with what others had written- people are excited for us but other than our immediate family, they aren't THAT excited it'd just be "another" event they'd feel they have to come to. But if I WAS going to do it, I'd do it this way mentioned above.
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