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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bummer for those who only want to share their happiness.  Maybe an informal dinner where you just choose to announce.  And yes I know that is not the point of this thread. [/quote]

Feel free to share your happiness with family and friends.  But don't through a party/event where they have to come out and spend their time just for such an occasion.  That reeks of conceit that you consider the gender of your child to be of such note that everyone needs to spend an evening or an afternoon coming out to attend such an non-event.  There will and are notable milestones for your child that will require people's attendance.  When they are important, people make the commitment to attend those events.  But manufacturing an excuse to take up people's time is really rude.  Once you announce such an event, people feel obligated to attend.

So, if you want to share the happiness, find ways to share that don't require people to attend an event.  Like the one PP suggested, a dinner party where people were already coming for some other purpose (in their case Thanksgiving), and adding a reveal cake as the dessert is fine.  The best one I saw was some friends who had both of their parents over for dinner, an event scheduled as getting to know each other (the parents had only really met once before the wedding).  They served a gender reveal cake for dessert and videotaped cutting the cake, then posted the reveal on FB.  Perfect.  Friends and other family could share the joy, could show their support with Likes/loves and didn't have to show up at a non-event.[/quote]

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