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So I was invited
To a gender reveal party. I never thought I would be invited to one. I never even heard of one until recently, and I can't remember where, although I know it was mentioned here. I shouldn't be surprised as this girl is a (self proclaimed, and rightfully so) "selfie queen" who will be having 3 baby showers. I texted FI earlier to let him know we were invited to a BBQ and the gender reveal the following weekend (it is for his cousin and his cousin's gf), and he responded "WTF. Gender reveal? Is that a thing?"
So it looks like we will be going on the 17th, location TBD. She is hosting the party. I feel like this will be interesting. Although I think the cat is already out of the bag. His cousin's mom is FI's Aunt, so of course she told FMIL, who in turn told FI. By the time the party comes around, I feel that everyone will know by then. Has anyone even been to one of these?? I don't even know what to expect. And I would hope that this is not a gift giving event. Well, back to my wine I go. Wine makes everything better:)
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Re: So I was invited
So, by cat out of the bag do you mean people already know the gender? Cause that really defeats the entire purpose of a party devoted to finding out the gender so as to start pushing expected societal gender roles before the baby is even born.
This person, whom I don't know from Adam, is being a little OTT in her plans, and it's weirding me out that I can see them. I keep 'hiding' them on FB, but they keep coming back.
I've never been to one, but I think they're cute, in a way. I don't know if I'd ever do one (DH gets to decide if find out the baby's gender when I get PG.)
It's weird, though, if some/most people know before the party. That defeats the purpose IMHO.
But telling the grandmas is a guarantee that everyone will know. My SIL found out the other week that it's a boy for baby number two and her sister, her mother, and my mother all blasted it all over FB within hours.
I think the gender reveal can be cute but it's also totally AWish.
For us, we kept the gender to ourselves until my birthday on the 6th and then DD got to announce,"Sprout is a boy! " That was enough for us.
@lolo83, I also hope there is cake, or cupcakes! Although, May is supposed to be my "good healthy month," although we'll see how that goes.
Yea I definitely feel like it's kinda AWish, which is probably why I'm partly not a huge fan. To me, a post on FB after telling VIP's is more than enough!
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I can kind of see his point. I told him there had to be cake.
I think it's slightly creepy to have the loop go through the bakery myself...
At my old.job, the sister of one of my co-workers was having a baby. My CW bought two sets of baby booties, one pink and one blue. Her sister had the gender-determining sonogram, the tech wrote it on a piece of paper and sealed it in an envelope. My CW gave that piece of paper and the booties to her BFF, who wrapped one set and donated the other to a locale pregnancy centre.
The CW had a gender-reveal party for her sister where she unwrapped the booties and found out. (It was a girl.)
That's actually kind of cool. I had no idea they did it like that, I just assumed the parents went to a bakery and revealed the gender, and the cake was made. Although, can't they just do that without giving the bakery a sonogram? If I decide to do something like that, it would probably just be with our parents, it would be a cute way to reveal it to them.
The idea is cute but isn't it very personal? I've never had a kid but I can't imagine sharing that information with anyone before talking about it with FI first.
The only time I cared about a gender reveal was a coworker/ friend of mine who had lost her first child to anacephaly. So while we all just wanted this baby to be healthy, we were excited to find out if it was a boy or girl.
H really wants to do a pregnancy announcement picture though. He's a gamer, so he wants a picture of us on the couch with controllers in our hands and a controller between us, and the caption "Waiting for player 3" I think it's corny, but it's adorable that he's all about it, so we'll do it.
I likegender receal parties. I think they can be cute, but I like cute things.
A girl I know was having her second baby and didn't do another shower, so they did a reveal. They used the whole "balloons in the box" idea. Well, it turned out really cute because they all unwraped it and started opening the box. Before anyone else saw the color of the balloons, she did, and FREAKED out. She was having a girl! It was really sweet and she still gets joked with about her reaction.