Anybody NOT doing agender reveal party?

Lisichka · October 2011

I really wanted to do one, but DH thinks they're silly and "what's wrong with just calling everybody and telling them?" On top of that, we're in the middle of buying a house (the closing should be right around the same time as the a/s), so I'm not even sure where we'll be next weekend. Also, my ILs are going to be out of the country that weekend, so that complicates things further. I'm thinking of foregoing the whole thing, but I really just want something more special than a phone call (with DD, we found out right before my dad's birthday and signed his card with my name, DH's name and "granddaughter")

So if you're not doing the party, are you just calling all your relatives and telling them? Or doing something a bit more exciting?

salt78 · October 2011

We aren't doing a party. Originally we were going to, but for various reasons decided not to. After the scan (which is Monday), I plan on going to Target and picking up a pair of gender specific shoes and then get a cool picture of those and run some text over it (I'm a designer so it should only take me like 2 minutes to do all this) and send out the picture. Not terribly exciting, but I think it's a little cuter than a phone call.

CallieSam · October 2011

Honestly, I would never be able to keep it to myself long enough to have a party. The idea never occurred to me with my son, and my husband and I just called everyone as soon as we found out and then posted it on Myspace (Because back then Myspace was cool!). I foresee something similar this time, only with Facebook.

digwriter · October 2011

Nope, not doing a party.

brittanyr23 · October 2011

I was wayyy too excited to wait for a party, especially when I found out it was going to be a little girl!! I gave my u/s pictures to my sister that had girl typed on it. The pictures that say girl is all of her butt so it is cute! I haven't did an offical facebook posting that I am pregnant yet I think I will sometime this week

justmeardle · October 2011

We aren't doing a gender reveal party. My extended family lives pretty far away, so I'll be announcing on our family's website. I haven't decided 100% what I'm going to do. Maybe a cute picture involving DS?? I have a month to decide.

hutchings30 · October 2011

Were not doing a party. Were just going to have a box filled with pink or blue balloons for the kids to open outside. I thought that would be fun for them. I will take a picture when they do it and put it on facebook and text it to people.

Judybruin · October 2011

We're not having a party for it. We're just going to tell people as we see them.

pink100 · October 2011

As much as I love the idea, I wont be doing one either. 1. I'm too tired to host any kind of a party and 2. I dont want to wait! I like Salt's idea with the shoes...so cute. But we will likely just call our immediate family and close friends and let it leak to the rest by word of mouth.

lulling · October 2011

We are finding out about 10 days before Halloween so, for our friends, we will probably just make an announcement at the Halloween party. As for family I will probably just email them.

We were thinking of doing a party, but it is so close to Halloween, and when I do a party I realllly like to do a nice spread and bar. I kinda just feel like we shouldn't be spending the money on a party right now.

Lanatir · October 2011

We're not doing one. I had never heard of it before ladies here started posting about it. But now I'm debating telling anyone at all, as pregnant SiL found out about 4 weeks ago and FiL didn't want to know and MiL can't keep a secret, so MiL bugged FiL by complaining it was favoritism and it was disrespectful to her that she couldn't find out and it wasn't her fault FiL didn't want to know, so FiL gave in and just made SiL tell them... I don't care if it is favoritism... DH and I are strongly now considering not telling anyone on his side of the family now (and surprisingly he's ok with it! But he mostly wants to know because I do, he was fine with the idea of being Team Green).

books4brooke · October 2011

We aren't this time (though we did with my son and waited a couple weeks after we found out because my dad was out of town).

This time we are going to paint a family of pumpkins and decorate them for each of us, painting the boy pumpkins blue and the girl pumpkin(s) pink. I'm going to take a picture and post it on FB. We will also be calling family.

Abby7 · October 2011

No way. Personally I think they are really silly. No one cares about the baby's gender even 1/10th as much as you do.

salt78 · October 2011

Abby7:
No one cares about the baby's gender even 1/10th as much as you do.

Um I beg to differ. Both of our families are chomping at the bit to find out what we are having.

books4brooke · October 2011

salt78:
Abby7:
No one cares about the baby's gender even 1/10th as much as you do.
Um I beg to differ. Both of our families are chomping at the bit to find out what we are having.

I agree Salt. Our close friends and family were really excited to find out, and making them wait a little bit actually made it even more fun.

raceyrae · October 2011

We aren't doing a party. All our family live far from us (other states).

DD#1 -- we found out right before Christmas when we were going home to visit both families. For each, we wrapped up a baby girl dress with the ultrasound photo and had them open it as a gif. https://emileandrachel.blogspot.com/2007/12/week-19-its.html

DD#2 -- we weren't near our family at the time so we told them via Skype -- we had DD#1 show them a new toy we got her to celebrate what we were having which was a baby girl doll -- the box said "It's a Girl".

With this one (find out tomorrow hopefully), we're going to have DD#1 and DD#2 tell them again via Skype. We're going to put the u/s photo in a picture frame -- either blue or pink that says Cute as a Button and see if they pick up on the blue/pink when trying to look at the u/s photo on Skype.

raceyrae · October 2011

hutchings30:
Were not doing a party. Were just going to have a box filled with pink or blue balloons for the kids to open outside. I thought that would be fun for them. I will take a picture when they do it and put it on facebook and text it to people.

That is really cute! I'd love to steal that idea for how to tell my girls but I'm thinking they might be too young to get it :P

kasslynne · October 2011

Oh no NMS. With DS we just called immediate family members this time we will probably do the same.

mrs.gee · October 2011

We'll just call or email. I had actually never heard of a gender reveal party before this board; certainly never been to one or known anyone who's had one. Are they common?

Charlyne · October 2011

We aren't. I'm having dinner with my mom & aunt to tell them but everyone else will be getting a call, text, or finding out on FB depending on how close I am to them. I might pick up a card or an outfit for my mom & aunt to open to find out, but that's it.

Cholzmei · October 2011

books4brooke:
salt78:
Abby7:
No one cares about the baby's gender even 1/10th as much as you do.
Um I beg to differ. Both of our families are chomping at the bit to find out what we are having.
I agree Salt. Our close friends and family were really excited to find out, and making them wait a little bit actually made it even more fun.

I agree 100%. My mother and some of my friends were more anxious to find out than even I was! Because I waited to find out until I was at the actual party, I think it made the party really special. If I had already known, I don't think I could have waited until the party to let people know.

I chose to have one because none of my family is local to me and it is the only baby-related party that I will be having for myself. It was a nice way to share a special moment in the pregnancy with my co-workers and friends here. Plus I haven't seen some of them in awhile, and it's always nice to have an excuse to get together.

I was pretty well shocked by how excited they were when we revealed the sex.

As for not having the party, I can totally understand the reasons for not doing it. Organizing and hosting the party WIPED ME OUT for the entire rest of the weekend, and I probably should have been saving money rather than spending it on a party too.

Zilly13 · October 2011

I will definitely not be doing a gender reveal party. Flame me if you will - but I think they are absolutely the most ridiculous thing ever. Your friends and family are going to be just as excited when you call or tell them in person as they would be walking into a room full of balloons or cutting into a cake. To each their own though...

I don't plan on doing anything out of the ordinary.

KCur · October 2011

I am thinking of bringing a carved pumpkin to my family's pumpkin carving party and leaving it in the car until all the pumpkins are lined up and lit. Then acting like we are missing one and sending DH to the car to bring in our pumpkin that reveals the gender. I am not sure what will actually be carved into this pumpkin yet or if I will go through with it but I thought it would be a fun surprise for the family without making it the center of the party. It is the first grandchild and niece/nephew and even baby in 24 years on both sides...so the people are barely controlling their excitement. I don't care for attention but its my family so I think I will be alright. I was thinking of leaving it on DH's dad's doorstep and ding dong ditching it. Then emailing a picture out to family and friends. I have been fielding questions on this for weeks, so I gotta tell them. And the simple call or text DH was imagining seems boring. Although maybe that is the way its supposed to be. LONG story short...I am undecided. But I love reading everyone else's plans and opinions on sharing the news!

526SadieSadie · October 2011

No party here. IF we find out the gender, we're only going to tell our parents, his sister, my bf and his bf (if they want to know). For all the parents/his sister I think we're going to wrap a box full of gender-specific balloons and let them open it. It might take a second but I think they'll get the hint when they see blue/pink balloons

KCur · October 2011

hutchings30:
Were not doing a party. Were just going to have a box filled with pink or blue balloons for the kids to open outside. I thought that would be fun for them. I will take a picture when they do it and put it on facebook and text it to people.

Such a cute idea!! Will you already know when they open the box? I would be so concerned with getting a shot of their reactions than the color of the balloons!

Smtih&co · October 2011

Zilly13:

I will definitely not be doing a gender reveal party. Flame me if you will - but I think they are absolutely the most ridiculous thing ever. Your friends and family are going to be just as excited when you call or tell them in person as they would be walking into a room full of balloons or cutting into a cake. To each their own though...

I don't plan on doing anything out of the ordinary.

Exactly. But to each her own. Smile

starswinger · October 2011

The second we found out, we bought little "it's a boy" balloons and hersey kisses and put them in black and white bags. We gave each of our mother's one to open. That was enough for us. We couldn't wait long enough for a party.

pattymctatty · October 2011

Nope. Not doing one.

Kristinmo · October 2011

Nope. Our family all lives far away plus I couldn't have waited. I sent a mass text about 1 minute after we found out.

Khecht · October 2011

We're not. We have our A/S tomorrow.. we live in Phoenix and all of our family lives in either Ohio or Chicago.. so we'll just be calling

Lisichka · October 2011

Good to know I'm not the only one, it just seems like everyone's doing them these days (on the bump at least). I still think I want to do something a bit more "fun" than just a phone call, but we'll see. I still have another week before then. I love the idea of having your kid(s) open the box with balloons in them though!

Rachel.lilly · October 2011

we are not doing the party thing. after our a/s on the 28th, we are going to carve pumpkins. One for each of us and one for the baby. I want to carve something that says "boy" or "girl" into it and put it on the porch. we have also decided at that point we will start talking about names and the sunday after that we can probably pick out paint colors.

Yay for gender reveal plans!

TIFF-N-SMILEY05 · October 2011

books4brooke:
salt78:

Abby7:
No one cares about the baby's gender even 1/10th as much as you do.

Um I beg to differ. Both of our families are chomping at the bit to find out what we are having.

I agree Salt. Our close friends and family were really excited to find out, and making them wait a little bit actually made it even more fun.

I agree here ladies, We are Team Green and our families are giving us hell about it!! They all are dying to know... More than me actually!

McGibbon51311 · October 2011

We told my family but are waiting to tell MHs family until this weekend at the baby shower. I plan on making up those sheets where people guess about the baby, such as birth date, time, weight, length etc, for each of the twins. We're putting one in an envelope with each person's name on it and then they'll fill it out. Everyone knows we'll be doing this but what they don't know is that we'll be filling out the sex of each baby on the tally sheet. So when they open it, they'll read it and (hopefully) be surprised. It's nothing big but I'd rather do something like that than announcing it in front of everyone at the shower.

metzy144 · October 2011

We aren't doing a party either. After our ultrasound we are taking DD to the pumpkin patch so I will probably just buy some letter stickers to put on the pumpkin and take a picture of DD next to it. I don't know if I can wait that long to tell my family, but I hope so! lol

huskerDG · October 2011

books4brooke:

This time we are going to paint a family of pumpkins and decorate them for each of us, painting the boy pumpkins blue and the girl pumpkin(s) pink. I'm going to take a picture and post it on FB. We will also be calling family.

I *love* this idea! Our big u/s is the 28th and we are going to a Halloween party on the 29th (where there will be pumpkins to paint). I might be stealing your idea!

sunnyday016 · October 2011

Nope, we're not doing one. We just texted a bunch of people and put it on FB.

heatheroo · October 2011

Zilly13:

I will definitely not be doing a gender reveal party. Flame me if you will - but I think they are absolutely the most ridiculous thing ever. Your friends and family are going to be just as excited when you call or tell them in person as they would be walking into a room full of balloons or cutting into a cake. To each their own though...

I don't plan on doing anything out of the ordinary.

I pretty much agree with all this. We're just going to call & tell our parents & close friends.

Angel002 · October 2011

We won't be doing one. I had never really heard of that until the Bump. No one I know has ever done that. To me it's a waste of money, lol. I'll just tell people if they ask....and probably annouce to those close to me.

Babycakes29 · October 2011

nonasimonsen:
Our plan had been to do one, but now Im re-thinking it. I think Im just going to carve it into a pumpkin and have DS sit next to the pumpkin and take pics.

I love this idea!! Re-pinned!!! Wink

This is our first baby though so I'll have no DS or DD, I'll just have to hold it or have DH hold it. But I love the idea since my A/S is on the 24th. Great holiday timing!

Babycakes29 · October 2011

salt78:

Abby7:
No one cares about the baby's gender even 1/10th as much as you do.

Um I beg to differ. Both of our families are chomping at the bit to find out what we are having.

Likewise! There is an over abundance of little boys in DH's family so his peeps are equally chomping at the bit waiting to see if its a girl. So I've decided if its a boy, I may not do anything too exciting but if its a girl I'm def going to do something other than just calling people. Not having a party but I'll do something unique.

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