Couples Shower?

Re: Couples Shower?

• Bellisimo

  January 2009

  That sounds like a lot of fun to me!  I think it would be fun to have DH involved in the baby shower rather than the traditional "women only" type shower.  It's a good reason to get together with all your friends/family and their spouses.  I like it!
  

  
  
  
  

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• MidwestTexan member

  January 2009

  Sounds like a fun party to me! We did a couples shower for our wedding and I really liked the fact that DH got to be involved.
  

  
  

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• momto1

  January 2009

  My sisters planned a co-ed surprise shower for my and DH. The surprise part was for him though---he was floored and totally loved the idea.  After months on end of being thought of last...he had a few special things just for him.

  He opened all of the gifts--(he tossed a few my way) and some people bought dad specific items...books, gag gifts, etc.   It was fun.....the best part was the fact that the guys that were there were good sports about it all and joined in the fun...

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• peachypear

  January 2009

  I attended one coed baby shower. It was luau themed. Every group is different, but at that shower everyone had a good time until the games/gift opening. (In other words, they enjoyed the eating, drinking, and mingling). The "games" were simple - basically it was men vs women on calling out correct answers to baby-related questions. At first the guys were uncomfortable being separated from their SO, then the women got annoyed at some jokingly "guyish" answers, and then the guys kind of lost interest. And frankly, I get bored during gift openings, so I can't fault them for that.

  Upon leaving, DH made me promise that I wouldn't make him attend another shower. It hasn't come up now that we're actually pregnant (this was about a year ago). I can see us potentially doing one, because now many of his guy friends have had babies. If we were, I think a BBQ / Jimmy Buffet type affairs sounds fun.
  

  I don't mean to sound down on coed showers - Definitely do it if it's right for you, DH and your social group. Just sharing my experience. I've heard other poeple say they really are fun.
  

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• mma1029

  January 2009

  we're tossing around the idea of a co-ed shower too - I say do it, it sounds fun. And you're right, Buffett rocks!
  

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• sarahns80 member

  January 2009

  We are doing a couples shower! Some of my friends recommended it. I seems like it would be fun to have ALL our friends there, not just the girls. I don't know if the people throwing it are doing a theme or not.

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• Kyla Sisco

  January 2009

  We are doing a couples shower. A lot of friends had couples showers and so of course they want to come to ours now.

  I also had the traditional shower with DD and would have preferred to have a couple's shower. I'm not into tradition much!
  

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• justgnat

  January 2009

  We're doing a "friends" shower and inviting all our mutual friends and the friends that we hang out with more individually. A lot of the invited are couples. We're not planning any games. I figure the guys will get a game of guitar hero going or sit on the patio with a beer while the girls and I chat. I think it will pretty much end up like our christmas parties.

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• FutureMcClain07

  January 2009

  We're doing two couples showers - one for his side and one for my side. I wanted to do one for our wedding, but he wasn't into that idea. Now DH wants to be involved because it's his baby too! I think he felt like the wedding was more my thing than his. Ha ha ha...

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• HappyTXChick

  January 2009

  Never!  DH would have killed me.  We had a couples shower for our wedding and it was great.  It was a big fiesta themed party where we drank and partied all night.  But at my baby shower I was not going to sit there and watch people drink, and my there is no way men were attending something w/out alchohol, so I nicely talked my friends into a ladies shower instead.  Face it, I can't say I like attending baby showers so why make men pretend to enjoy them too?!?  Just my opinion!

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• christana08

  January 2009

  DH will probably show up at the end of the shower when we start opening presents. That way he can be there and not have to sit through everything else. We planned on doing this for our wedding, but DH got side tracked with his BIL and showed up as I was opening the very last present. I'd talk to your DH and see what he wants to do.
  

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• NoelleHansen

  January 2009

  I just HAVE to say it:  Bellisimo and YummyMummy - You two have the most gorgeous sons..

  I am having one with just the girls and we are probably going to have a 2nd one with a different set of our mutual friends with couples. 

  I think Jimmy Buffet theme, no dorky shower games sounds fun. It's YOUR shower, have it anyway you want!
  

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• erino&chrish

  January 2009

  We are having a coed shower.  DH is very involved and wants to be a part of everything.  I've been to one, though, and guys can't sit through the present opening part.  We'll have to do a casual present opening and have the host's husband usher the guys outside or serve them drinks or something.  I'm not against alcohol, just shame on whatever guy (or girl) gets sloshed at my baby shower...I hope our whole group has better manners than that.

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