Planning Timeline for your Baby Shower

by Edie Mindell





Planning and organization are also pre-requites of simple events like a baby shower. Baby showers are intended to celebrate the giving birth of a mother. In baby shower planning, the tasks and responsibilities of the planner or organizer primarily include having a step-by-step planning and preparation for the needed things, staying in-control during the event, and ensuring the satisfaction as well as the safety of the mom-to-be.

The first thing that a planner must do is to interview the couple client about their budget and preferences for the party such as the theme, venue and date. For the theme, the planner may also suggest and show sample pictures of the previous baby showers planned and held but the client's decision must be respected. With regards to venue, the basis should be on the number of expected visitors who will attend and it is recommended to look for suitable locations as soon as possible. Meanwhile, for the event date, the ideal schedule is on a Saturday or Sunday that is between 2 to 4 weeks before the mother's due date or may be on the day where the maximum number of people to be invited is available. After the major decisions are finalized, it is now time to produce the invitation that should include the event's location, date, time, and the client's contact numbers. It must match the theme and should be sent 5 or 6 weeks before the event.

The third phase of the baby shower planning timeline is focused on the things needed in the party such as foods, decorations, activities, and gifts. The planner may prefer to give attention first to any of the said factors but it is better to start with the food menu because it usually holds the largest portion of the budget. For the food, whether the venue is at home or a restaurant, the planner should choose a buffet that matches the theme of the party and at the same time, should be healthy for the mother-to-be. When it comes to decorations, the balloons and streamers or other accessories should be relevant to the theme. Facilities like sound system, lights, and projector screen should be arranged properly in convenient locations.

There are many options for the activities during the party but the baby shower planning stage must feature a well-arranged itinerary of the program. As a suggestion, the party may start with a welcome period where guests may login to a creatively designed guestbook. Upon logging in, it is a good idea to provide them a welcome gift. Allowing the guests to mingle is also advisable where people in the party get the chance to greet and have a chat with each other. One good thing to be included in the activity is a slide show where pictures and videos related to the mother's pregnancy are compiled in a music video.

Also, it will be very nice for the baby shower party to have soft and lively music in the background. For the games, the planner should carefully choose those that are relevant in welcoming the baby and must be safe enough for the mom-to-be. Overall, baby shower planning is an important task that must be done carefully. It should make the party become a memorable event for the first-time mother.



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Suggestions For Baby Showers

by Owen Jones

Baby showers are well-liked events, particularly in America. A baby shower is usually given or hosted by a friend of the expectant mother, mostly before the birth but occasionally after it as well. The point of the baby shower is to collect presents for the child and its parents, which is why family of the mother find it awkward to organize the baby shower themselves - it seems too much like begging.

If you can get a friend to arrange a baby shower for you or if someone offers to do it, the invitations should be sent out a month or two before the birth day, so that the mother is not in too much discomfort and is not likely to drop the baby during the party.

It is good to have handmade baby shower invitations. There are two ways that you can do this: either design the invitation card yourself and have it printed out or select a template at the printers. Both ideas give satisfactory results. 
If you have the invitations printed to a standard size, you can purchase cheap envelopes at a budget stationery office, but if you go for some weird size, ask the printer to provide the envelopes too.

Standard details like the date, the time, the venue, your name and the baby's name can all be printed but you will have to write or type the recipient's name in personally. Add your phone number too so that people can ask questions if they have any. If you would like the party (and the presents) to have a theme, you should say that on the invitation. Perhaps the card could be in the same theme too.

In fact, if you want to go down that route, you could download a fitting image off the Internet, say, a scene from Peter Rabbit, and give that to the printer so that they can print that onto your card.

People are very busy nowadays, so make sure you give your friends at least a month to book you in and get a suitable gift for the shower. If you would like to be pretty sure how many guests are coming, enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard in with the invitation, so that they can let you know easily.

If you are looking for baby shower games to do during the party, you could get people to suggest names for your baby and guess the sex or weight of it as well. You could use a cross on a chain as a pendant to see if it the movement predicts a boy or girl and how many individuals get the same movement. You could also discuss themes for the child's nursery after it is born, one for if it is a boy and one for if it is a boy.


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