Shower hostess gift budget

909bride · September 2011

I'm just curious as to how much I should spend on these gifts. Hostess gifts aren't really something ever done with my family but is more customary in DH's family. On my side, my shower is being thrown by my mom and 2 sisters. On DH's side, my shower is being thrown by his mom and my 3 SIL's. How much do you generally spend on these gifts? TIA.

sarahjames9 · September 2011

I am not sure how much it cost, but for my BFF, I got a gift box of Godiva truffles. She loooves chocolate, so this gift was just too easy! If you bought something like a giftcard for a 30min massage or pedicure, that would run around $45-$50.

Chan4dra04 · September 2011

My shower was this Saturday and my side has never had baby showers before (dysfunction all around!) so I really was flying blind. I just put together little personal care packages of things that would treat each hostess. My mom and mil split the costs but DH's cousin helped a ton with ideas, so I think I spent about $50 on each mom and then about $35 on the cousin. I put things like: cutesy eco-friendly bags, candles, lotions, body sprays, grandma mugs for the gmas, and huge turtle covered candy apples - o yum!

Hopefully others have a similar budget for their hostess gifts. But, I'm not too worried. They loved them, and each one was tailored to each recipient. Esp since the moms were the ones that forked out the cash for the shower, I don't think they'd appreciate me spending much more.

bmcapra · September 2011

I just had one of my showers yesterday, there were 3 hostess and I spent about $35 on each of them.

purple4u · September 2011

I had my shower on saturday, my mom was the hostess and my sister, former babysitter and aunt helped out a lot. I spent about 200 on my mom and 100 on my sister and 50 on my aunt and former babysitter.

ashleylach · September 2011

Wow! Everyone spent alot on their hostess gifts...I had 4 hostesses to buy for so for my 2 friends I bought each of them a bottle of wine (about $10 each and put a nice thank you note.) And for my mom I bought her a picture frame and said we would give her a nice professional picture of baby when she arrives. And then for my cousin I bought her a candle and SUPER cute tape dispenser in the shape of a high heel because she's a teacher.

I'm from the midwest and I had never heard of shower gifts before and my hostesses were really shocked I even gave them anything. So I wouldn't spend alot of money. Plus most of them probably want you to spend your money on your LO, not on them.

Teffie · September 2011

I don't think hostess gifts are very common in my area/family. I've had two showers so far and have given some nice stationery sets, candles and candy. Each time they acted totally shocekd I gave them anything, almost uncomfortable. They said "we should be giving YOU gifts, not you giving US gifts".

That being said I will still give the hostesses of my other two showers something small as well. Proabably spending about $15 per person, max.

pghjen · September 2011

I bought my hostesses $50 giftcards to Sephora. I try to do personal gifts, but both showers were out of state and time was limited.

909bride · September 2011

ashleylach:

Wow! Everyone spent alot on their hostess gifts...I had 4 hostesses to buy for so for my 2 friends I bought each of them a bottle of wine (about $10 each and put a nice thank you note.) And for my mom I bought her a picture frame and said we would give her a nice professional picture of baby when she arrives. And then for my cousin I bought her a candle and SUPER cute tape dispenser in the shape of a high heel because she's a teacher.

I'm from the midwest and I had never heard of shower gifts before and my hostesses were really shocked I even gave them anything. So I wouldn't spend alot of money. Plus most of them probably want you to spend your money on your LO, not on them.

I'm from the midwest too.

909bride · September 2011

Thanks ladies. I was hoping to do similar things for each of them so the prices were about the same but also want them to be different for each person. I was kind of thinking personalized glassware, such as wine glass, tea mug, etc, and then getting the corresponding beverage to go with it.

poz · September 2011

I got 2 of my hostesses large Tervis Tumblers and matching lids. Very practical, but something they wouldn't just go out and buy themselves. I got the other hostess a bead for her pandora charm bracelet.

cikangell · September 2011

I spent about $70 total on the 2 hostesses for my first shower (co-workers) and will probably spend about $100 total on the 2 for my friends and family shower.

FWIW, I used gift cards left over from birthday and Christmas to buy their gifts. Ooh, and a William Sonoma card from our wedding 2 years ago..;o)

marinewife709 · September 2011

i had my baby shower this past sunday and i got my hostesses (my aunt and cousin) each a scentsy plug in and one scent bar as well as the "thank you" willow tree angel so it was about 45 dollars a person.

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