Author: Sarah Porter

Hosting a successful baby shower requires good planning and organization. Here’s a timeline and step-by-step planning guide that will help you organize and prepare a successful baby shower, stay in control during the baby shower party, All About Baby Showers and ensure the Mommy-to-Be has the time of her life.

Ten Weeks Before:

----- Decide on a general baby shower plan

----- Prepare a budget

----- Set the date of the baby shower

----- Select the location for the baby shower party

Eight Weeks Before:

----- Prepare guest list; ensure addresses are correct

----- Determine the baby shower theme

----- Choose the food for the baby shower

----- If catering, hire the caterer

----- Order personalized baby shower invitations with matching baby shower thank you cards

Six Weeks Before:

----- Ensure the printed baby shower invitations and matching baby shower thank you cards have arrived

----- Start addressing the custom baby shower invitations

----- Assign responsibilities for various duties for the baby shower

----- Delegate one guest to photograph and / or videotape the baby shower

Four Weeks Before:

----- Mail unique baby shower invitations to invited guests

----- Order baby shower party supplies

----- Book the entertainer if one is planned or budgeted for

Three Weeks Before:

----- Count the serving ware you have available

----- Conclude the baby shower menu

----- Start buying the nonperishable baby shower items

----- Select the baby shower games to be played at the baby shower party

Two Weeks Before:

----- Call invited guests who have not relied to the unique baby shower invitations

----- Verify all baby shower party favors and baby shower party supplies will arrive on time

----- Create seating arrangements for guests at the baby shower

----- Purchase beverages for the baby shower

----- Buy the present for the Mommy-to-Be

One Week Before:

----- Place order with the florist

----- Order baby shower cake, if you're not baking it yourself

----- Order any prepared foods

----- Order baby shower balloons

----- Inventory household supplies

----- If it is a surprise baby shower, develop a plan for Mommy-to-Be to get to the baby shower party

----- Assemble the baby shower favors and baby shower decorations

----- Confirm rentals, entertainment and baby shower party site, if not at your home

One Day Before:

----- Clean house where baby shower will be held, if at a home

----- Cook dishes that can be prepared in advance

----- Bake the baby shower cake and refrigerate

----- Check in delivery of rentals

----- Buy perishable ingredients and ice

----- Wrap baby shower present to the Mommy-to-Be

----- Begin decorating

Day of the Party:

----- Get flowers from the florist, if ordered

----- Pick up cake or frost cake if baked at home

----- Get prepared foods, rolls and bread

----- Finish assembling homemade food and cooking

----- Set up the gift station for the baby shower gifts

----- Final cleanup of the bathroom or powder room

----- Set tables

----- Arrive early if baby shower party site is not at your home

During the Party:

----- Greet guests

----- Kick off the baby shower party

----- Coordinate with your guest video recorder and / or photographer

After the Party:

----- Gather all the baby shower presents

----- Pay balances and tips if baby shower is not at your home

----- Allow others to help you clean up

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About the Author:
Sarah Porter, Press Agent for several baby sites Birth Announcements Cards , Baby Shower Invitations ,
Baby Shower Announcements and more.