Step 4: Send out the virtual baby shower invitations (we used Paperless Post and Facebook)ġ:40-1:50: Game 4 - Toilet Paper Belly Measuring (get a free Canva Template of all my virtual baby shower games I designed below!)Īsk guests to grab a roll of toilet paper - tear off as long of the role as they think your belly is wide and count the squares. The must haves for any virtual event are: video, audio and a chat feature. If you have a free account, you’re capped at 40 minutes. I upgraded my Zoom account for one month for $20 CAD so that we could have unlimited time. There are some virtual baby shower specific video tools, but they seemed expensive and unnecessary to me. Step 3: Choose a venue for your virtual baby shower (we used Zoom)īy now (one year into the pandemic), most people are familiar with virtual meetings and tools like Facetime, Messenger, Zoom and Google hangouts. DM me on Instagram if you want to see our registry to get some ideas. My top stores for baby items in Canada were Indigo, Well.ca, Amazon and H&M. We were blown away and blessed by all the wonderful packages we received in the weeks leading up to the shower from our registries!īoth my sister and I used Babylist and loved it - you can add items from any website on the internet into one consolidated view. It’s an experience that I wasn’t sure could be replicated in an online space.īut the beautiful reality of family and friends is that they want to celebrate your new addition, in whatever way that looks like. When you host a baby shower in-person, it’s an event with food and drinks and prizes. I’ll be honest: creating a registry for a virtual event felt awkward. Step Two: Create an online baby registry (we used Babylist) We invited all our aunts and cousins just from our mom and dad’s side, which ended up being 23 people. To avoid that kind of chaos, you want to limit the guest list and have a clear schedule (more on that below), so for us that meant keeping it to a family-only affair. We’ve all been on Zoom calls where there’s far too many people and no one can get a word in edgewise. The rule of thumb is that you don’t want more than 20-25 people to join virtually. People were EXCITED! Our great aunt in British Columbia even went out and got her hair done for the occasion, bless her heart! Step One: Decide how many people and who to invite to your virtual baby shower (cap it at 25) We actually agreed NOT to do a virtual shower in favour of a summer get together, but then we changed our minds. Those were some of the questions we asked ourselves at first. What would that look like? Would guests consider it “tacky?” Would everyone (i.e., older family members) even know how to join? Should we just wait until the babies are born and the restrictions are lifted so we can all get together? My mom suggested that my sister and I do a joint baby shower since we share so many of the same family and friends and we’re due just two months apart! But, with the current restrictions, I knew I wouldn’t be able to fly home safely to Ontario, and gatherings still weren’t permitted where we live in Canada (March 2021). The great debate: Do we host a virtual baby shower or wait until the babies are born to get together in-person? * Squeal* She lives in Ontario, and we live in Alberta (about a 4 hour flight between us), so preparing for our babies during a pandemic has certainly been challenging when we’d love nothing more than to be spending loads and loads of time together. My older sister Katrina is also expecting her first baby girl in just a few weeks too. There’s something so incredibly special about painting and calligraphing pieces for my daughter that I know will be in our family for years and years to come. thing online?!) but only just started to make purchases and get creative with the nursery artwork over the last few weeks. I’ve been planning out the nursery for months (why are there 1,000 options for every. I’m officially 30 weeks pregnant over here and couldn’t be more excited. I promise: this will be FUN! (and oh so beautiful) Huge congratulations to all the fellow mamas-to-be! You’re getting to share a big piece of your heart with those who love you and you can never go wrong with that. I’ve also included a free template for all the games that I created - simply sign up for my email list for the link (at the bottom of this post). How to Host a Beautiful Virtual Baby Shower in 6 StepsĪfter lots of fun chats on Instagram and questions about ours, I thought I’d share the whole process and 6 easy steps for how to host a beautiful virtual baby shower.
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