Baby shower - what do people do these days?

[Anonymous]

A restaurant is lovely! Or if the aunts/uncles flying in are getting an Airbnb together that could be an option..

Don't worry about the registry or gifts. The book idea is great. Friends threw mine and just said no gifts necessary but we welcomed any pre loved books for baby's library something like for those that wish registry below. But by that point we had gotten most of it from FB marketplace or bought ourselves so small things and mostly books anyway.

I recently went to a shower at a restaurant. The host sent a venmo to all the guests for their meal and covering the mom to be. A lot of the people there thought it was tacky but if it's mostly family should be fine although you know them best. I think that's the only tricky thing with restaurants.

We were thinking about hosting our own before friends asked and found a tea place that would have been 45-65 pp and that was doable for us for a small 8-10 people party.

I would keep in mind costs.

My favorite are the old school pot luck showers with silly games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A restaurant is lovely! Or if the aunts/uncles flying in are getting an Airbnb together that could be an option..

Don't worry about the registry or gifts. The book idea is great. Friends threw mine and just said no gifts necessary but we welcomed any pre loved books for baby's library something like for those that wish registry below. But by that point we had gotten most of it from FB marketplace or bought ourselves so small things and mostly books anyway.

I recently went to a shower at a restaurant. The host sent a venmo to all the guests for their meal and covering the mom to be. A lot of the people there thought it was tacky but if it's mostly family should be fine although you know them best. I think that's the only tricky thing with restaurants.

We were thinking about hosting our own before friends asked and found a tea place that would have been 45-65 pp and that was doable for us for a small 8-10 people party.

I would keep in mind costs.

My favorite are the old school pot luck showers with silly games.

Oooh that’s bad. Sounds like the person wasn’t hosting, just made a reservation.