The birth of a baby is one of the happiest occasions we can share with our family and friends. Baby shower invitations are one of the ways that we can convey our joy in and anticipation of the event to the people we love. There are as many types of baby shower invitations as there are types of parents, and planning and creating them can be great fun.
One way to generate a sense of fun in your guests is to prepare the baby shower invitations along the same mood and theme as the shower itself. Your invitations can ask guests to provide advice for the new parents and be in the shape of a bassinette, bib or blocks, whatever you like. You can also go green by sending the baby shower invitations electronically. And, if you are of a literary bent of mind, the invitations can be worded with a poem. The poems can be silly or sentimental, your choice. Either way, you can memorialize your friendship and love for the expectant mother in a fun way. And baby showers are all about fun.
You can also incorporate the interests of the expectant couple into the baby shower invitations. Creating the invitations can be just as much fun as the shower itself. Use your imagination as your guide. Or, if you are pressed for time or do not have much of a creative streak, you can hire a calligrapher to prepare the baby shower invitations. Beautifully hand written baby shower invitations make a wonderful keepsake.
Be sure to include certain important information on your baby shower invitations no matter what form they take. You should be sure to include the names of the expectant mother and host or hosts, along with location, date and time, directions to the shower location, contact phone number for responses and questions, where the expectant couple has registered for baby gifts, the party theme and suggested type of dress. Make sure you also plan for enough time to either order or prepare your baby shower invitations and mail them out well in advance of the shower date. You should send them out around two months in advance of the shower and allow guests two weeks to respond. This gives you enough time to invite others who may be on a back up guest list and provide the caterer with a head count or yourself with enough lead time to purchase and prepare an adequate amount of food and party favors.
Regardless of the format, baby shower invitations are an invitation to fun. Enjoy.
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Of course you will have to make your decision based on your style preferences and how much money you are willing to spend.
As a new parent, you are almost surely handling a lot of bills, so the last thing you want to do is to take on more expenses with regard to baby announcements. That being said, you don’t want to cut corners either, and you will definitely want your baby announcements to mirror the event’s significance.
The good news is that there are quite a few options for affordably priced baby announcements, and they can compare favorably with higher priced designs. To do this effectively however, you will want to enlist the services of designers who will work with the budget that you can afford.
July 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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August 1st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
It used to be that a stationery store was the only place to purchase a prepackaged set of baby shower invitations whose themes generally followed a set pattern, without much deviation. However, you are now limited only by your imagination with the introduction of online baby shower invitations.
Some people, particularly the expectant parents and grandparents, will want to keep baby shower invitations as a keepsake, so it is important to choose the style and theme with care. An especially nice touch would be to choose a design that allows you, or a calligrapher, if you prefer, to handwrite the shower particulars. You can also have your own wording added to the baby shower invitations to further personalize the design and match that design with mailing labels and party decorations and favors.
August 16th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
New families in America, especially, have been starting out with basics for their first born by holding these events. It has long been both a celebration and a way of helping expecting mothers out.
Not every baby shower will be the same. Jewish culture, for example, has baby celebrations after the birth. One new trend is to hold a baby shower for the father, although this is still rare.
September 12th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
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September 13th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
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October 4th, 2009 at 1:36 am
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November 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am
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January 31st, 2010 at 10:35 am
You may in fact find that it won’t be long before most birth announcements will come to you in your e mail address box rather than in your actual physical mailbox.
Of course there are plenty of people who feel that traditional birth announcements will continue to be the best way to go about doing things for a long time to come. There remains a huge market comprised of people that still like writing down sentiments and important social messages on special pieces of paper, and birth announcements written down on paper is still the only thing that will suffice. It is exactly this audience that keeps traditional birth announcements alive to this day and age, and they will likely continue to practice this activity for a long time to come.
We have already made mention of a few different forms that birth announcements can adopt, but we have yet to emphasize the extreme importance of content in all of this.