Baby Shower aka Over the Top Extravaganza

So, we had a baby shower on Saturday. I have stressed and stressed and stressed about wanting it to be perfect. I wanted to be sure that my 16 year old knew that we were happy and she should not be ashamed. She decided to have this baby and that was reason to celebrate. Y'all, we celebrated.

Here are some photos of our event:

We had guests sign a matted photo of Peanut's sonogram picture, in lieu of a guest book. We also asked that everyone self address an envelope. In the day of social media, text messaging, and facetiming, we realized there were a lot of mailing addresses we didn't have. And in the south, hand written thank you notes are a must.

The gifts, wow at all the gifts. She got so many and actually no duplicates at all.

As a Thank You to all of our guests, we had cupcakes with a sucker with a "thank you" sticker on it.

  

We used simple milk glass with hydrangeas as the table centerpieces.

 We had a nice spread of quiches, pinwheels, cheese balls, hot dips,crackers, and cucumber sandwiches. The Princesses just had to have cucumber sandwiches.

We had a candy buffet. There are blue Laffy Taffy, because when the Princess is craving something, she just needs it! :)

Of course, there were petifores. What baby shower would be complete without petifores?

The cake, oh wow, the cake! It was wonderful. The top tier was chocolate and the bottom was plain white. It was delicious and beautiful!

This was our center table. I think it turned out beautifully. It was exactly the look we were going for.

Baby Shower Planning

Oh my word! Who would have thought that planning a baby shower could be so many things?? Namely, expensive, stressful, exciting, overwhelming, and a million other emotions all rolled into one. Now, before y’all go all Ms. Manners on me, I know full well that mama isn’t supposed to throw her daughter a baby shower. But, why? Because it’s rude for me to ask for gifts for her??!? But not for someone else to ask for gifts for her?!?!? Y’all, I just went with it. A friend of mine offered to be the “formal” host, but that just seemed pointless and dishonest. Anywho, back to the planning….. here’s a few things I have recently learned that I thought I’d share with you:

• ·       Party favors for guests are a thing now. Who knew? I thought you gave party favors at children’s birthday parties so the other kids didn’t feel left out. Turns out, you give party favors at baby showers now, too.   We are giving these. They are a lot a smaller than I thought, so we are having our cake maker make us cupcakes to put these in them.

• ·         Candy buffets are the “in” thing. I wanted the Princess to have the nicest baby shower ever, so I agreed. 

• ·         Single colored candy is EXPENSIVE. I’m in it over $100 and I’m not even sure it is candy we will eat if there are leftovers. What I am sure of, though, is it matches the theme!! We found that Amazon had the best prices on them. We ordered this and this.

• ·         Things will NOT go perfectly. But, my mom reminds me that I am the only one who will know, so don’t stress.

• ·         We are doing a semi-early baby shower. Peanut is not due to make his appearance until the end of January; however, we are having a shower the beginning of November. I think this will be sure the Princess is still feeling good, and will give her time to get the things she doesn’t receive at the shower in the event Peanut makes an early debut.

• ·         It is so, so, so easy to go overboard. I have wanted to buy so many things for the shower. I’ve tried to use better judgment and use things I have or borrow things from someone I know. The things I have bought, I’ve tried to be sure they are things I can decorate in my own home, or use to decorate Peanut’s room.

Do you have any tips on throwing a baby shower on less than a celebrity budget? I’d love to hear them.

Stay tuned for photos from the shower. I can't wait to share it with y'all.


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