Real Showers:-Baby Gender Reveal Party
September 17, 2009 by Jen
Filed under Real Baby Showers
I’ve been a fan ever since I saw the amazing car party (which I’ll share soon), that Sarah, over at Jack & Izzy threw for her son. I was even more wowed by her fabulous Baby Gender Party, where she gathered her family together to reveal the sex of their baby. What a great idea!
Here are the wonderful details as told by Sarah:
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“On Friday afternoon, Garret and I had our 20 week ultrasound, and we got to find out the sex of the baby. I was SO EXCITED! I had been counting down the days, hours, and minutes until we would know if we were having a boy or a girl! Since it was such a huge deal and such exciting news, we had our family over for a “Gender Party” on Friday night for the big reveal.
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These were the invitations I sent out, and the whole inspiration for the party decorations came from this design. I searched high and low for some kind of giraffe pattern in yellow and orange. Don’t you get excited when you find that exact thing that you had pictured in your head?! Anyway, these were blank greeting cards from Rock Scissor Paper, and I printed off the “Boy or Girl” strip and adhered it to the front. The inside read, “Come be the first to know!” and it gave all the times and details.
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“On Friday afternoon, Garret and I had our 20 week ultrasound, and we got to find out the sex of the baby. I was SO EXCITED! I had been counting down the days, hours, and minutes until we would know if we were having a boy or a girl! Since it was such a huge deal and such exciting news, we had our family over for a “Gender Party” on Friday night for the big reveal.
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These were the invitations I sent out, and the whole inspiration for the party decorations came from this design. I searched high and low for some kind of giraffe pattern in yellow and orange. Don’t you get excited when you find that exact thing that you had pictured in your head?! Anyway, these were blank greeting cards from Rock Scissor Paper, and I printed off the “Boy or Girl” strip and adhered it to the front. The inside read, “Come be the first to know!” and it gave all the times and details.
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Garret and I brainstormed a fun way to actually break the news at the party, and this is what we came up with: We put a gumball in the center of each cupcake, and we let everyone bite into them on the count of three. They would either see a pink center for a girl or a blue center for a boy.
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Another shot of the dessert table – sorry the lighting is so terrible. We had our party pretty late in the evening, so there wasn’t a whole lot of natural sunlight left. But as you can see, I followed the giraffe theme from the invitations, and all the food and decorations were yellow and orange.
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The pinwheel cupcakes – I made the pinwheels myself using card stock and lollipop sticks. Originally, my plan had been to order the pinwheel cupcake toppers from Twirlie Whirlies on Etsy, but in my procrastination, I did not leave enough time for shipping, so I ended up doing a Google search for “paper pinwheel tutorials” and I figured out how to make them on my own.
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Cute, little popcorn bags – I purchased these at Michael’s, scalloped the top of them with decorative scissors, and added a label on the front.
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Sugar cookies with royal icing – I used this Martha Stewart recipe, and they turned out quite yummy.
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The drink station – I bought the Tangerine Italian Soda from Whole Foods because it was orange and the bottles were so perfect. I peeled off the labels they came with and added my own instead. I also put some orange slices into the lemonade to add a punch of color, and they gave the lemonade such a delicious taste!
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I got these darling cupcake liners from Cupcake Social, and I used them for my lemon bars.
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And I hung some orange and yellow tissue poms from the chandelier above the table. If you’ll remember, I featured the awesome Etsy shop Pom Love a couple weeks back.
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On the invitations, we instructed everyone to “play along” and wear a blue shirt if they thought we were having a boy or a pink shirt if they thought we were having a girl. As you can see, the pink votes way outnumbered the blue votes!
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On the invitations, we instructed everyone to “play along” and wear a blue shirt if they thought we were having a boy or a pink shirt if they thought we were having a girl. As you can see, the pink votes way outnumbered the blue votes!
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Everyone biting into their cupcakes … ONE, TWO, THREE, BITE!!! What’s it gonna be?!!!
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IT’S A BOY!!!!
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My sister proudly displaying her blue gumball. “Aunt Kiki” is excited about having another nephew!
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Jack was so sure I was going to have a girl! He told everyone it was a baby sister in mommy’s tummy. Looks like his prediction was wrong … but doesn’t he look adorable in pink?!
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It was such a fun, memorable night, and Garret and I are absolutely thrilled to be having another baby boy!”
Very cute idea! What is funny is both the mom and dad to be were wearing blue, so the observant person might have guessed before eating the cupcake! Haha