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Gender Reveal Party Tips!

Your little bundle of joy is on the way and you couldn’t be more thrilled. Whether this is your first child or another addition to your wonderful family, you want to mark this moment with something amazing. A Gender Reveal Party is all the rage and you are ready to start planning yours now.

Some tips toward creating the perfect gender reveal party.

  • Pick a date that is around your 20-week ultrasound. In case that little one is a bit shy, it’s a good idea to leave a little wiggle room after your ultrasound. After you’ve got your date scheduled, make sure you send out your invitations a month in advance, which will allow your guests to plan for any travel arrangements they might need to make to attend your party.
  • If you are planning to be as surprised as your guests on your big day, then it’s a good idea to choose a trusted accomplice who can handle any hiccups when it comes to ordering the surprise reveal party supplies. You definitely want someone who can keep a secret—even from you! Your ultrasound technician will happily assist you in keeping the secret. Just provide them an envelope to write the baby’s sex on a piece of paper to seal in the envelope. Then you can hand this precious information off to your trusted pal to commence with the surprises. The fewer people that know the sex of the baby—the better!
  • Start looking for ideas on gender reveal party themes and decide on the theme that is perfect for you. You can let your guests know the theme of your party by choosing coordinating invitations. Don’t limit yourself to just pink and blue. There are other gender neutral and modern themes such as a yellow and grey chevron design, or orange and navy. Once you have decided on a theme, make sure to order your supplies early and give yourself enough time to put things together and to decorate. You are pregnant and you don’t want to be stressed or rushing around when it comes time to get ready for the big gender reveal. This is supposed to be fun—not stressful!
  • If you are planning on some special effects such as, balloon reveals, powder cannons, or smoke cannons, you can do a test run to make sure everything is set up perfectly. This can also help your photographer set up and capture the moment without missing a beat.

While at the party, it’s a great idea to involve your guests as much as possible. Everyone is there to share in the joy of the new family member, so let them be a real part of the event. Have your guests cast their vote for the sex of the baby, let your guest “dress their guess” in the color scheme of the gender they suspect. Prepare fun games that revolve around guessing the gender of the baby and even send them home with a special favor to mark the moment. Pinterest is your best friend when it comes to your party planning.

For those far away loved ones who couldn’t be there, you can share the pictures on social media. If you really want to involve those who are far away, you can even live stream the reveal on Facebook. Whatever you choose, this party is about your family and the new arrival soon to come and all the love that everyone around you shares. Make it a special day for you and your loved ones by throwing a fun and memoriable Gender Reveal Party.

What is a Gender Reveal Party

 

What is a Gender Reveal Party? A gender reveal party is a party to announce a new arrival in the family! It is a fun new way to reveal the gender of your little peanut to-be and celebrates the newest soon-to-be born member of your family. Gender Reveal Parties are so much fun for parents to be and it’s a great way to include the extended family in this new stage of your life. Friends will also feel more involved, and they will appreciate being included in the excitement. So, invite all your loved ones to find out the gender of your new baby and celebrate this during this beautiful time of your life.

Decorating with pink and blue is an obvious tip for your party, but there are a lot of creative ways to do this. I have seen so many cute ways to not only decorate but to include your friends and family in the fun!  Ask your guests to come dressed in the color of their gender guess. It will be so much fun to see who comes in pink and who comes in blue! I have also seen some fun old wives’ tale games, where the mom answers old wives’ tales to help guest’s guess whether this new baby is a little mister or misses. Some families take it even further, keeping themselves in the dark about their new baby’s gender. They have the doctor’s office write down the gender and seal it in an envelope. This take some serious restraint on those parents not to peek! Then a trusted family member or friend does the gender reveal for them.

One of the most exciting ways to do the final reveal is to shoot a gender reveal confetti        cannon into the air near the end of the party. Our confetti cannons are made with compressed air,    and they shoot bright pink or blue biodegradable paper confetti up to 15 feet high. You simply hold the gender reveal confetti cannon with one hand and twist the bottom with the other. Then POP a cloud of festive pink or blue tissue paper falls down around you. Our confetti cannons can be launched indoors or out.

You can involve all your friends and family in the party by asking them to help make pink and blue cookies to celebrate. Set up a cookies station with all pink and blue frosting and sprinkles! This is a fun way to have some sweets and an activity for the kiddos as well.  Another fun party idea is to give guests a memento to take with them to remember your gender reveal party. Photo booths are a ton of fun plus it gives your guest a picture that one day they can show your little one. It is so fun to have these little keepsakes to show kids years later that you were there they day their mommy and daddy found out that you were their little prince or princess.

Do you have any fun gender reveal party ideas? I’d love to hear them! Tag us on Facebook and Instagram! Don’t forget if you used any of our products for your gender reveal to send them in to be entered into our photo contest!

Gender Reveal Party with Confetti Cannons

Pregnancy is such a magical time during your life. There is so much joy and excitement over this new sweet baby. As many parents do, we try our very best to be a prepared as possible for this new little one’s arrival. We buy cribs, diapers and all the cute clothes we can. But the big questions is, are we shopping for a little man or a sweet princess? Like most parents (and let’s be honest our family and friends as well) we cannot wait to find out if this little peanut is a boy or a girl. I mean the ones who hold out until birth or do the “team green” have super powers of strength and determination. As for me and the majority of parents to be out there, we cannot make that torturous 9 month wait. Besides gender neutral clothing is just not as cute! So, we have gender reveal parties! You invite all the family and friends over to reveal to them in some amazing way if your little peanut is a mister or misses!

Now we have all seen confetti cannons at some point in our lives. Whether it is at major events like 4th of July celebrations, New Year’s Eve parties and or baseball games, we have seen them. So why not use colorful confetti cannons for a gender reveal? It’s genius! Our confetti cannons are full of pink or blue confetti to highlight the moment when the everyone learns whether the baby is a boy or girl. What a fun way to make that moment extra memorable!

Our confetti cannons are made with biodegradable confetti making clean up a breeze! They are safe for both indoor and outdoor use. Our confetti cannons as easy to use, just hold with both hands, twist the bottom and POP! You will be showered with confetti that has been shot 15 feet into the air. Don’t forget to have someone on camera duty for this! Not only will you be showered in confetti making for amazing pitcures, but you’ll be able to captures the faces of all your friends and family as they find out as well! These pictures are priceless and a beautiful way to captures this beautiful moment!

 

 

Worried that the cannons will give away if they are pink or blue? We have got that covered! Our cannons come marked only with a number that indicates the color of confetti inside. So, your secret won’t be given away until your cannons are popped!

Did you use a confetti cannon for your gender reveal? Or did you have another fun and creative way to reveal your little peanuts gender? We want to see! Tag us on Facebook or Instagram! Don’t forget if you did use one of our confetti cannons we do a monthly photo contest! So submit your picture for a chance to win!