my corner of the blogosphere: Gender Reveal Baby Shower!! [behind the scenes/how to]

Hello again!

I've been so busy working but I really wanted to share some behind the scene details from my Gender Reveal baby shower last month. I had never been to one but I really wanted a fun creative way to share the news with everyone I love, especially because our family is in other states. So I did some research.... First of all, keeping the secret was a killer! No Lie! I hate keeping surprises like that from people. I'm one of those people that can't even buy a gift early b/c I want to give it to the person already! But, I was surprised I kept the secret well and didn't tell anyone. YAY me!

So I started by picking colors that I wanted (which was difficult, I changed my mind a million times).

I knew I wanted a bird & birdcage theme just because I love them both, so that was easy.

My bestie and my sister in law took all my ideas and perfected them. They did such a beautiful job that I literally cried as I walked into my shower and saw how lovely everything looked.

I could not have pulled off a more perfect baby shower. I was so grateful to them!!!

So here are some of the pics I have gathered from others from my shower.

[many more to come]

I knew I wanted to have people guess what we were having so I had team boy and team girl:

I handmade bows for people to wear!

I bought some cheap frames from Goodwill and we painted the glass with chalkboard paint.

the process of crafting

I bought mustaches from the dollar store

this was our 'pick your guess' table
gifts were below

I don't like pastel colors at all so I made my colors raspberry pink, dark blue and yellow!

Table decor!

Ok, so the most challenging part was thinking of how to do the big reveal. I researched and researched how others had done it. Some ideas were to make a cake or certain foods in pink or blue then when you slice the cake or take a bite of the food you can see the color and know if it's a girl or boy. Other ideas were to fill a box with balloons in the gender color or fill a piñata with candy of the gender colors. Although I liked those ideas I still kept thinking because I really wanted our parents to be the ones to spill the beans. So, I finally came up with my own idea and I must say it worked so well. I bought little girl clothes, shoes and socks...put them in bags and let our parents open it in front of everyone. That moment was so emotional and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Everyone was yelling and screaming [and I was crying] it truly was perfect. So if you are planning a gender reveal baby shower I would say DO it! Have fun with it and let your creativity flow. I don't regret a single moment of it. I'll add the very emotional video at the end of this post. Oh, and we also played a fun 'Old Wives tale' game which I found online here. According to the game I was having a girl....interesting, maybe old wives tales aren't just old wives tales, haha!