gender reveal party --- stupid or fun?
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Anonymous
| Parties are generally supposed to have the intention of entertaining your guests, so you should take into consideration that many people would find this self-indulgent and tedious. Focus on showing your guests a good time, have a toast or something where you reveal the sex, move on. People will find it more enjoyable to be part of the reveal if they didn't know what was coming. |
Anonymous
+1 Not even remotely my MO, but life is too damn short to get so seriously annoyed by so many trivial little things. |
Anonymous
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completely stupid
would not attend |
Anonymous
| I've attended two of these and have seen many more documented on facebook. I think they are way over the top and narcissistic. But I think I'm in the minority on this, as the other guests seemed so excited to be there and obviously the couples enjoyed themselves. These parties are just too much for me. I only attended the ones that I did because they were family members and not going would have created unnecessary drama. |
Anonymous
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Can someone explain to me what is so "not fun" about this?
You show up, have a meal, some booze, someone cuts a cake - yay it's a boy/girl, more booze/chitchat/whatever leave. The party does not require you to discuss the various thoughts and emotions that pertain to becoming a parent to a boy or a girl. It is a normal dinner party with the except of a 5 minute cake cutting revealing. |
Anonymous
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Also if my friends are kind enough to invite me over *and* feed me, I'm thrilled to go and see them. The fact that 5-10 minutes of my time will be devoted to watching them discover if they are having a boy or a girl is not so offensive that I will avoid the event all together.
Seriously people, you can't smile for a few minutes and share a moment with your friends? These are your friends right? |
Anonymous
| Stupid. |
Anonymous
| I think people were mostly objecting to the theme, the games, the prediction bulletin board, the choosing of "sides," etc. Nobody is against a cake and toast. |
Anonymous
PP here. Okay, maybe this explains the difference. The gender reveals I have been to in my hometown (which is southern if that makes a difference) are basically drinks, dinner, 5-10 minutes max of cake cutting, yay! girl/boy!, and then back to normal dinner/drinks/chatter/game on tv. |
Anonymous
| whenever these threads come up, there seems to be a core of people who seem to imagine the worst possible event that they'd hate and then post about how much they'd hate it. Like if I said "I'm having a wedding, how can I make it fun?" they'd say "UGH! SO self-centered of you to have a wedding! With the slide shows of your childhood and the annoying bandleader and the drunken toasts from the best man! Why does anyone ever DO this?" |
Anonymous
How many millennia have we been attending weddings? How many years have we been attending gender reveal parties, which, to me, pregnant 33 year old fogey that I am, feels overly intimate, like something that the happy couple should find out together relatively alone (nurses and doctors or an ultrasound tech would be there for most "gender reveals" for example). It's just too "too," like organized cake smash picture sessions. |
Anonymous
I'd probably mutter darkly to myself about how dumb it is, but then is end up going and having fun in spite of myself. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I'm not going to turn down drinks, snacks and socializing, but I'd be inwardly  the entire time.
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Anonymous
To be fair, the modern wedding extravaganza for anyone but royalty or aristocracy is probably a relatively recent phenomenon as well. I guess the point is, if you think it's creepy, boring, or unpleasant in any way; don't attend. Several people have stated they don't like these. A few others that they don't care either way. And a couple that they enjoy them. So OP, make your decision based on that. I personally have only been to a gender reveal shower, which made the shower a little more interesting. (I generally don't find showers that much fun including my own, though I will say my sister worked hard on a really relevant theme and related decor/games for mine. I think it was more fun than your typical shower.) I don't know what I would think of a gender reveal party. Probably depends on the hosts, group of friends, and exactly how it was organized (i.e. two hours of focus on guess the gender games, or just a subtle theme in the background with a few minutes spent actually revealing the gender). FWIW, though, it seems to me to be more of something someone else would host for the couple than something they would do themselves. |
Anonymous
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I can't believe people would actually not go if it's someone you're close enough to to warrant an invite. Sure it's cheesy, but you guys are serious assholes.
Sincerely, Wouldn't do it myself but would happily support someone I'm close to if that's what they wanted |