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Baby Shower Tea or Baby Shower?
by Donna Gorenflo

Baby showers have come to be a very important event in an expectant mommy's life. Baby showers are a nice opportunity to allow family and close friends of the soon-to be-mother to show their love and devotion to her. Another option to the classic baby shower is the baby shower tea. This is usually a much more formal event which offers the mother to be and attendees a unique form of celebration.

When holding classic baby showers, the announcements can be generally informal. From time to time they're communicated through word of mouth. Baby showers often involve very close family and friends, and often they can tell one another the time to arrive. With a baby shower tea, on the other hand, is better served by using proper announcements that display more formality. The goal isn't to make the baby shower tea feel ostentatious, rather to help create a more formal atmosphere to the overall affair. Also, the amount of people invited should be less. In a classic baby shower the hostess usually will ask a a higher number of guests since larger groups work perfectly with the conventional baby shower games and activities. However, a baby shower tea is usually better served with a small guest list. Typically, you don't want any more guests attending a baby shower tea than can be seated at one small table. Intimacy is the goal, and games are not usually played.

A more tradional baby shower can be hosted almost anywhere. In general the shower is in your house of the hostess, but they sometimes take place in a favorite hang out, hall, or a restaurant. The locale really should be based on what the mother wants, so if she has got a favorite hang out spot it could be the perfect location. Baby shower teas, on the other hand, should be held in a more formal place. Generally this will mean in a private home, but the event may also be held in a tea room. The decor for the event location should be formal and elegant, but that doesn't necessarily mean the celebration needs to be overly extravagant or that the home needs to be taken care of by a maid service in order to be appropriate.

A baby shower can be held at almost any time during the day but they are typically on the weekend or in the evening since most people have to work in the daytime. If no one has to work during the day, the baby shower can be held while kids are in school. A baby shower tea is most suited for the afternoon, because the afternoon is the most fitting time for a tea party. However, some might prefer to hold a shower late in the morning. For a baby shower, almost any cuisine could be served, but at a baby shower tea, tea sandwiches and scones are proper. Gifts and shower favors are usually a very big part of a classic baby shower, but at a baby shower tea, gifts don't need to be given and party favors ought to be cut out or relevant to the tea party. Today some baby showers include the expectant dad and often the guests give gifts for the expectant dad, but at a baby shower tea the guests should be strictly women.

Both types of showers have bad points and good points, but a mother can have both types if she chooses to. Celebrating the birth of a new baby should be a wonderful affair. Whether you gather family and friends for a traditional baby shower party or a formal baby shower tea, you can not go awry if you just make it special, personal and distinctively yours!

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