Thinking About Being A Baby Shower Hostess?

Hostess Responsibilities

If you decide to take on the responsibility of hosting a baby shower for a friend or relative, you have quite a few responsibilities. Try to give yourself at least four weeks, or better yet six weeks, to do the planning and preparation. You’ll need to calculate how large a budget you have and how many guests you can accommodate in your home or in another facility if you’ll have the shower in a restaurant or elsewhere. You’ll need to decide on the date with the mother-to-be who is being honored. In addition you’ll need to go over the guest list with the honoree.

You’ll need to decide on a theme or whether to have a shower without a theme. Having a theme sets the tone for many things, including gifts and certainly d