Double Baby Shower Ideas for Best Friends
Even as adults, best friends enjoy sharing things. If you know a pair of best friends who are expecting babies around the same time, a double baby shower might be more fun for both of them than a party for either alone would be. Does this Spark an idea?
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Planning Considerations
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Adult best friends probably don't do everything together the way kids might. When planning a double baby shower, especially for two friends who are not related, you should consider how best to make the shower inclusive and fun for both women and their friends. Choose a neutral location that will be equally accessible for both mothers. If the two guests of honor have a shared circle of friends, consider making the shower only for shared friends, and ask the mothers to consider having separate showers for relatives or friends who don't know the other mother. However, if both mothers would like to invite friends who don't know the other mother, make sure you plan ways for the guests to get to know each other that will make everyone feel included.
Theme Considerations
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A double baby shower is a great opportunity to get creative with your theme. You can take a theme that's usually used for twins and tweak it, such as changing "two peas in a pod" to "two peas in two pods." You can use a theme that lends itself to multiple babies, such as "it's raining babies," with ducks and umbrellas, or "pumpkin patch" instead of "little pumpkin." Be sure to consider whether the mothers know the genders of their babies when choosing your theme. For example, if one mother knows she's having a girl, and the other mother isn't finding out, then you could choose a theme like "the princess and the pea."
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Game Ideas
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Many baby shower games are designed to focus on the mother-to-be. If you want to give each mother a turn as the center of attention, you can alternate so that each game focuses on one of them, and the next game focuses on the other. If you do this, be sure to plan equal time for each mother. However, you can also adapt many baby shower games to include both friends in a single game — and many games might be more fun that way. For example, instead of having guests guess the girth of the pregnant woman's belly, have them guess the girth of both bellies when the two mothers are standing back to back.
Gifts
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In most baby showers, gifts are a central part of the activities. In your invitations and planning, make expectations regarding gifts very clear. Discuss this with both mothers when you are planning the party. If some of the guests are friends with only one of the mothers, make sure both mothers are comfortable with a guest bringing a gift for her friend but not for her. For guests who know both women, make it clear what's expected. If you think it would be difficult for guests to bring two presents, consider making it a no-gift shower. You could also randomly assign guests to bring a present to just one of the mothers if they are friends with both of them. For example, for the guests who are friends with both, you could ask those with last names between A and M to bring gifts for one mother and those with last names between N and Z to bring gifts for the other.
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