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Originally Posted by Table 5
So I assume you are the girl who posted a few months ago about the idea of inviting men to a baby shower? I remember virtually every member of the board saying it was a horrible and torturous idea. How did it go with the men? I assume a few came down with last minute colds?
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Yes thats me and it turned out AWESOME because my husband helped with the planning. The party was at the clubhouse of a condo/townhouse complex and we had amazing weather (80 degrees Farenheit even though it's the end of October). So at the beginning, for the first 45 mins or so, people just had beer/wine/punch/water and appetizers and mingled with each other since people didnt know each other. Then the guys went outside and had more beer, smoked cigars etc while we (the girls) played games and did girly things.
Then the guys came inside and we all had lunch...and then we made the guys play a game while we all watched. The game the guys had to play was this: we gave them all sippy cups filled with beer, and whomever drank the beer the quickest won a prize (a 6 pack). We weren't sure at their sippy cup skills, but it was quite comical.
Then we just had dessert...and the couple opened presents, most of the guys didnt even pay attention to this part but just drank some more.
The reason my husband is a genious is because there are 2 plasma's in the clubhouse and when we first got there, they weren't working. He eventually got them working, and by the time they were opening presents, the football game (without the volume so the girls didnt get annoyed but with captions on) was on, and then eventually the World Series game.
I asked the men if they were dragged to this shower and they said yes, but the reason they actually had a good time is that we did things specifically for the guys and didnt make them participate in girl games like "guess the size of her belly by cutting a piece of string" etc etc. They could always go outside to the pool deck, sit on the chairs, have a beer etc since the weather was amazing. So all in all, it was a success cuz they didnt really feel as though there was a baby shower going on
The favors for this shower were chocolate cigars for the men and customized chocolate bars for the girls.
I would post pics if i knew how..haha.