The Dessert Party/Baby Shower

Here are more details about the baby shower I hosted for my friend last week.

Most etiquette books will tell you that having a shower for the second, third, fourth and beyond baby is a no-no. I used to agree with this rule, but now I see there can be a few exceptions. For one, maybe there are so many years between the children, that the parents need new updated equipment/things for the new baby. Or maybe the baby will be the opposite sex and they need some boy or girl specific items. Or maybe you do what we did; we decided we wanted one last night with our friend, to celebrate the her and the baby. We took the focus off the shower and put it on the mother-to-be, our friend.

For our theme, we chose to have an Elegant Dessert Party. We had it on a week night, after dinner. We decided on black & white for the color scheme, which would make the party not so gender specific.

For our menu, we chose black & white desserts. To make the evening more elegant, we wanted to have a sit down “dinner” feel. So we divided the desserts into a first course & second course.

First Course:
Peanut Butter Brownie Cups
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Chocolate Cake Pops

Second:
Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake
Chocolate Souffle
Vanilla Ice Cream

Beverages:
Hot Tea
Coffee
Milk

Since this was the mother-to-be’s second child, and this will be her second boy. There’s not much that she needs. So, we asked the guests to bring a package of diapers & wipes.

For more tips & information on how to throw the perfect shower see my post from February 13th.