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Hosting a successful baby shower requires good planning and organization. Here’s a timeline and step-by-step planning guide that will help you organize and prepare a successful baby shower, stay in control during the baby shower party, All About Baby Showers and ensure the Mommy-to-Be has the time of her life.
Ten Weeks Before:
----- Decide on a general baby shower plan
----- Prepare a budget
----- Set the date of the baby shower
----- Select the location for the baby shower party
Eight Weeks Before:
----- Prepare guest list; ensure addresses are correct
----- Determine the baby shower theme
----- Choose the food for the baby shower
----- If catering, hire the caterer
----- Order personalized baby shower invitations with matching baby shower thank you cards
Six Weeks Before:
----- Ensure the printed baby shower invitations and matching baby shower thank you cards have arrived
----- Start addressing the custom baby shower invitations
----- Assign responsibilities for various duties for the baby shower
----- Delegate one guest to photograph and / or videotape the baby shower
Four Weeks Before:
----- Mail unique baby shower invitations to invited guests
----- Order baby shower party supplies
----- Book the entertainer if one is planned or budgeted for
Three Weeks Before:
----- Count the serving ware you have available
----- Conclude the baby shower menu
----- Start buying the nonperishable baby shower items
----- Select the baby shower games to be played at the baby shower party
Two Weeks Before:
----- Call invited guests who have not relied to the unique baby shower invitations
----- Verify all baby shower party favors and baby shower party supplies will arrive on time
----- Create seating arrangements for guests at the baby shower
----- Purchase beverages for the baby shower
----- Buy the present for the Mommy-to-Be
One Week Before:
----- Place order with the florist
----- Order baby shower cake, if you're not baking it yourself
----- Order any prepared foods
----- Order baby shower balloons
----- Inventory household supplies
----- If it is a surprise baby shower, develop a plan for Mommy-to-Be to get to the baby shower party
----- Assemble the baby shower favors and baby shower decorations
----- Confirm rentals, entertainment and baby shower party site, if not at your home
One Day Before:
----- Clean house where baby shower will be held, if at a home
----- Cook dishes that can be prepared in advance
----- Bake the baby shower cake and refrigerate
----- Check in delivery of rentals
----- Buy perishable ingredients and ice
----- Wrap baby shower present to the Mommy-to-Be
----- Begin decorating
Day of the Party:
----- Get flowers from the florist, if ordered
----- Pick up cake or frost cake if baked at home
----- Get prepared foods, rolls and bread
----- Finish assembling homemade food and cooking
----- Set up the gift station for the baby shower gifts
----- Final cleanup of the bathroom or powder room
----- Set tables
----- Arrive early if baby shower party site is not at your home
During the Party:
----- Greet guests
----- Kick off the baby shower party
----- Coordinate with your guest video recorder and / or photographer
After the Party:
----- Gather all the baby shower presents
----- Pay balances and tips if baby shower is not at your home
----- Allow others to help you clean up
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