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Baby Shower Tea or Traditional Baby Shower?
by Donna Gorenflo

Baby showers have come to be a very important event in an expectant mother's life. A baby shower is a nice way to allow your families and friends of the expectant mother to display her they are excited about her new baby. Another option to a more classic shower is a baby shower tea. This is a much more formal event that offers the party guests and mom an alternative way to have fun.

With more classic baby showers, announcements can be pretty informal. Often classic shower invitations are communicated by e-mail or word of mouth. Baby showers tend to include intimate friends and families, and they can often tell each other the place and time. A baby shower tea, however, is better served when distributing proper announcements that show a bit more formality. The goal isn't to make the baby shower tea feel pretentious, instead to help create a much more formal atmosphere for the whole affair. Likewise, the amount of people invited should be less. With a traditional baby shower the person hosting generally chooses to ask a large number of guests since larger groups tend to work well with conventional baby shower activities and games. On the other hand, a baby shower tea is usually best served with a small group of guests. Ordinarily, you do not want any more guests attending a baby shower tea than can be seated at a small table together. The goal is intimacy, and typically, games aren't played.

A more traditional shower can be hosted essentially anywhere. In general the shower is held in a home of the hostess, but they can be held in a hang out spot, hall, or a restaurant. The place needs to be dependent on what the mother to be would like, so if she has a favorite restaurant or hang out then that might be the great location. A baby shower tea, on the other hand, is preferably hosted in a more formal location. Usually this will mean in a private home, but the celebration can just as well be held in a tea room. The decoration for the location should be classy and formal, although that doesn't necessarily mean the event has to be ostentatious or that the house needs servants to be appropriate.

A baby shower can be held at just about any time of day but they are usually held on weekends or at night because most guests work during the day. If no one on your guest list has to work in the daytime, baby showers can be held during school and the kids are gone. Baby shower teas are more suited for the afternoon, because this is the most fitting time for tea. However, some may choose to hold the baby shower late in the morning. During a baby shower, pretty much any cuisine may be served, but at a baby shower tea, tea sandwiches and scones are appropriate. Gifts and shower favors are usually a very big part of a more classic shower, but at baby shower teas, presents don't need to be given and party favors should be cut out or relevant to the tea party. Today some baby showers include the soon to be daddy and sometimes the guests bring gifts for the dad to be, but at a baby shower tea the guest list should be strictly women.

Both types of celebrations have disadvantages and advantages, but a mother can have them both if she chooses. Celebrating a new baby should be a delightful experience.  Whether you gather family and friends for a traditional baby shower or a more formal baby shower tea, you can not go wrong if you just make it special, intimate and distinctively yours!

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Looking for help in planning a baby shower celebration?  Bama Babies and Birthdays gives hosts unique favors, party decorations and baby present ideas as well as many other resources to help you design a fun or formal occasion.

 

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