Those of you whose friends are ALL MALE

[deuxceleste]

My momma is dying to give me a shower. But honestly, I have about three girlfriends. All my friends are men.

What do I do??!!! I told her that there's really no need to do anything at all, but I think she'd feel bad, especially because my sister is pg too and has nothing BUT female friends.

HELP!

[tsfairy]

Invite the guys. :)

[Danelle78]

Co-ed party. Through the years, I've been friends with most of their wives/gf's. You guys could bbq or do a covered dish thing. I've enjoyed the co-ed parties I've been too. I do see any reasons for not involving all your friends.

[koru]

i say, invite the guys, too! we had a unisex shower...family, friends & all their SO's...and it was great fun. more like a party, really. lots of food & drinks & good conversation.

[torio]

I'm with the vote to invite the guys. Unless you really love the super-fem baby shower games and decorations it will probably be more fun to have your best buddies there! No offense to those of you who go in for the pink frillies, but I'd prefer a bbq with beer (even if I'm not drinking) any day!

[deuxceleste]

I'm with the vote to invite the guys. Unless you really love the super-fem baby shower games and decorations it will probably be more fun to have your best buddies there! No offense to those of you who go in for the pink frillies, but I'd prefer a bbq with beer (even if I'm not drinking) any day!

I concur! (Hence the fact that all my friends are boys!)

I suppose you have a point, there.

SOOOO... how do you propose I suggest this to my pink, frilly mama?

[GoddessKristie]

I think it depends on how your guy friends are. I only have three girlfriends that I only see every few months (some only once a year), and at least twice as many guy friends that I see every week. I had a shower in Nov and one next sunday and both ladies who threw it said they'd rather just have women, so I invited my girlfriends, their moms, and all my aunts and female cousins on both sides of mine and DH's family. This meant my first shower was somewhat small, the one on Sunday won't be huge either, but they were still a great time. In fact, because I only had a handful of people at the first everyone was more comfortable getting crazy and making idiots of themselves for me! It was a blast!
Then, my guy friends took DH out for a guys night last weekend. They're all so curious about my pregnancy that everytime we hang out I just field a ton of questions so I didn't feel like I needed an event just for me to feel special, they always make me feel special. :)
Let us know how it goes!

[SheSpeeds]

We're having a co-ed baby shower, mainly because we have the best house/location to get everyone together. My husband and I have almost entirely all mutual friends. This is our first and everyone has been very excited for us, it would be hard to omit the boys just for sake of gender. I'm taking the perspective that this party is our last celebration before the (good)chaos breaks out in our lives...where parties will be more difficult to throw for a while. And if people want to bring gifts, they can.

I'm really hoping that the friends we have with kids do hand-me-down gifts if any...there's sooooo much baby stuff out there in boxes in people's closets.

[Eaglevoice]

One of my friends from grade school pretty much has no friends. Her dh has tons of friends though. So they had a co-ed party. It was really fun. I don't think a shower has to only be about the mom and baby. Why not have the dad just as big a part of it??

[SunRayeMomi]

definitely co-ed it girl!! It's 2007 for pete's sake. :p

I had a "couples shower" and everyone brought their husbands, and we served a simple lunch (if it was allowed at the hall, we would have served rum punch or wine). No silly games, very grown-up event :thumbs