Have you ever heard of a Gender Reveal Party???
In a nutshell, expectant parents host a party to find out the sex of their baby and share the excitement with family and friends. At the 20-week ultrasound, the ultrasound technician is asked to write down the gender of the baby and seal it in an envelope. That envelope is then given to the person {grandma, friend, baker, etc.} that will bake the cake for the party.
The magical part is that this person will dye the inside of the cake pink or blue, depending on the sex. At the party, everyone finds out the gender of the baby when the cake is cut!!!
How fun to be able to rejoice instantly with everyone you love over the good news!
I am allllll about celebrations, so this idea just tickled me pink! Or blue! Haha!
And cake is involved, so BRING IT ON!
I cruised around the internet to bring you some fun pictures and links to Gender Reveal Parties I thought were super happy.
I’ve already informed the Happy Hubby that we are soooo doing this if the Lord blesses us with a Happy Buddy #2!
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I am buzzing with excitement over this What’s It Gonna Bee? Party from GreyGrey Designs! You must go see the other pictures to this fabulous party – the dessert table is bee-autiful!
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This cute party activity idea from Maddycakes Muse is so creative! Guests get to cast their vote on baby’s gender before the big reveal.
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Mama Manifesto made a cute heart banner out of pink and blue felt and draped it over a chalkboard for guests to suggest baby names for a boy or girl. You HAVE to also see the adorably simple food table from this party too – Mama Manifesto said it only cost $25 to put together!
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Sadie James had her guests dress in the color of what team they were routing for!
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Live, Laugh, Create and Design made white chocolate dipped pretzels covered in blue or pink sprinkles!
And below is a picture of a Gender Reveal Cake (courtesy of the Cake Junkie) – what everyone is waiting for!!!
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You could even do cupcakes with a pink or blue M&M in the middle and everyone at the party can take a bite at the same time!
Doesn’t this sound like fun?!?!?
I’ve never been to a Gender Reveal Party and now, after working on this post, I am DYING to go to one! If you have one, please invite the Happy Home Fairy!!!
Happy Gender Reveal Party-ing! 🙂
Crystal Poole
May 16, 2011 at 11:16 amyou are DEFINITELY invited to mine!!! 🙂 we are shooting for september. also here is another great “what’s it gonna bee” party i found when I was researching gender reveal parties 🙂 don’t know if you already saw it :
http://10littlebabytoes.blogspot.com/2011/01/whats-it-going-to-bee-baby-showergender.html
Andrea
May 16, 2011 at 1:32 pmI think this is such an awesome idea, I’ve seen this all over blogland, and I can’t wait to do this next time we’re gonna have a baby!
Jenny Wilson
May 17, 2011 at 8:21 amHow fun! Maybe it’s a good thing baby didn’t cooperate last week. Now I have four weeks to get things together to do one!
Kaslynn
May 17, 2011 at 4:33 pmThis makes me so EXCITED! =) I had wanted to do a gender reveal party with our second child (now 3mo) but my hubby mass text everyone in his phone book bf we even got out of the dr office that it was a BOY! Oh well!
I’m debating if I want to even find out the gender for baby #3 (I’m not prego!)bc I will have to do a scheduled section. I need some kind of birthday surprise! We are definately keeping names a secret next time either way!
Brittany @GreyGrey Designs
May 17, 2011 at 5:42 pmThanks for the shout out!
Lisa
February 29, 2012 at 3:39 pmI’m in the process of planning mine and of course Happy Home Fairy is invited! Can’t wait now – so many great ideas!
Katie
May 23, 2012 at 10:17 pmLove all the ideas especially the chalk board. I have a whole line of gender reveal party items in my etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/GreySkiesBlue Hope you like it!!