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Coed Shower Ideas Please!!
My good friend is having her first baby. I have offered to throw her a shower, and she wants it to be coed. I have no problem with that. My problem is that the guys don't want to go to a "baby shower". What else can I call it? Any ideas are welcome.
Thank you!
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Re: Coed Shower Ideas Please!!
What about a buffet with a few short games and then poker table for the guys (or PS3 games) while the ladies enjoy a pedi/mani?
How do you know that the guys don't want to come? Have they actually told you this or are you guessing?
First, I would talk to the mom-to-be. If she wants a co-ed shower, perhaps she has ideas of how it would work with your group of friends.
Second, if mom-to-be doesn't have any ideas then I would think of this more as a gathering, more like a bbq than a shower. Keep it very simple, don't play traditional shower games and provide hearty food and beer. I agree with the pp, do poker or something of the sort like trivia. You could also set up a tournament of whatever
Good luck!
A lot of guys these days don't mind going to baby showers, but if you are really concerned with calling it a shower, you can just call it a gathering in honor of the baby-to-be or mom-to-be...
Figure out what type of activities you are going to have going on and put that information on the invitation so it doesn't send any guys running.
I am going to be having a picnic/bbq in the park where we will probably have little competition games and guys can throw around the football and eat and do whatever. good luck!!
I've thrown a couple of co-ed showers, and the guys were just as happy to be there as the girls. We did a couple as open house, come & go showers. We had a lunch prepared, and people came and visited with the mom & dad, and then left when they felt it was appropriate.
I'm currently planning a shower for my cousin & his wife, and we're throwing it in honor of the dad instead of the mom, since her friends want to throw her one as well. It's going to be a full on comic book theme as the dad is really into comics.