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You Don't Have To Make Your Baby Shower Decorations
Too Elaborate
My sister and I planned a baby shower for one of our
nieces. We decided to have it in the fellowship area of the local
church because it was a large guest list. We had the shower on a
Saturday afternoon.
We did not want to get too elaborate with the baby
shower decorations because we needed to have the entire area cleaned
out immediately after the party. We did want to have a few baby
shower decorations to give the room a festive feel. There is a bassinet
that is passed to each new mother for the baby to sleep in for the
first four to six weeks. This bassinet was my mother’s. We decided
that we would use the bassinet as the center of our baby shower
decorations. The fellowship area has large round tables that seat
ten people. We moved one table off by itself to be the gift table.
We covered this table with a soft pink table cloth; our niece knows
she is having a girl. We set the bassinet in the middle of the table.
We decided to use our presents for the baby shower decorations.
I had purchased a pink and white baby blanket, which we draped over
the side of the bassinet. We pinned several rattles and other baby
toys to the blanket using diaper pins. We then displayed the little
outfits that my sister had bought. We finished the baby shower decorations
for the gift table by placing a large stuffed bear into the bassinet.
For the buffet table we had an arrangement of fresh flowers from
the local florist. She used soft pink carnations, baby’s breathe
and daisies for the arrangement. We decided that no other baby shower
decorations needed to be placed on this table. We did have pink
napkins that we set on this table, along with a cake that was decorated
with a stork
holding a small doll in a pink frosting blanket. We
had also ordered a corsage for our niece and one for each of the
new grandmothers to be. We felt that the room looked very nice and
we would not have to spend a great deal of timing cleaning up baby
shower decorations because they would all be sent home as gifts
to our niece. We had a great turn out for the shower. My niece received
several very nice gifts. She was glad that we had the shower in
a space that was not cramped. As she progresses with the pregnancy
she is feeling more claustrophobic. Within 30 minutes after the
shower was over the fellowship area was cleaned and we were on our
way home.
Author:
Tod Cox
Article writer for NewBabyFacts.com.
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