I went to one. If my best friend hadn't asked me to be the Godfather of the child I would have been all
God the thought of this shit still makes my head spin. "Hey, lemme drop a few grand on a pointless party to see how many likes I can get out of my 332 Facebook friends!"
Every one I've heard of the parents knew and were surprising family etc. that said we were pioneers in this stupid trend in my podunk ass town so what do I know.
For real though, thankfully my 2 friends that have children have never done this. I would ridicule any of my friends that caved to this garbage. Just more look at me bullshit. I hate my generation.
Had a friend who's wife really wanted one and he, like a normal man, did not. His wife insisted so he said he would on his own terms. Had a keg, wings, etc. and did the whole recruiting thing... blue hat and pink hat on the table with his parents behind him. The announcement (which his wife didn't know and he found out right before) was like "After consulting my family and looking deep in my heart I've decided to have a girl." Glad he did it his way.
Has a friend do one with his was very low key. He redused to spend money on it or make a big production. Was just family and my wife and I. No gifts, food was beer and pizzas for about an hour. He took one of those giant water cooler juggs and filled the whole thing with sprite. Game me a red or blue food coloring vial and told me to read the results and add the color of the gender. When everyone was ready he walked over and added a pack of mentos and it made a giant 15 foot blue geyser. I have seen fb stuff and that shit can get rediculous though.
I was too scared of what my reaction would be so I told my wife no way we can have one. Our first child was a boy so I really don't care if we do some small family thing like a cake for round 2.
We made it clear on the invites not to. My parents slipped me a check, but that would have happened anyways just to help cover cost of the party.
My youngest brother and his wife had like 30 people at my parents. When they cut the cake there was some blue icing on the knife from the outside and he started to get excited. He is over the top cop guy. Then they saw it was pink icing inside and he let out a sigh and looked straight up in the air with an unhappy expression. He caught himself and tried to act happy and hug his wife. We have kids in waves, all boys for years, then all girls. Luckily I had the last boys.
A proper way to do it, like a man, is just to do it at the baby shower. Dont have separate events. I was the only one that knew our first was a boy, so I gave my wife a bunch of boy stuff at the shower.
This thread makes me laugh. My wife and I have three kids, all boys. I have three siblings and between them they have another six kids...all boys. We are due for our fourth kid and we find out what it is in a couple months. There's no need for a party here unless it's filled with blue, penis shaped balloons that say "it's another boy!" written across the shaft.
I would imagine it's needs to be done before baby shower since people usually like to know gender before buying gifts. And showers are usually later in pregnancy I believe. Not really my area of expertise though.
You were at the shower? Lol. I played 9 holes and drank during the party at the CC we had the shower at. Then I came back, collected gifts and went out with some buddies for my "shower". Cuck
This is why I never wanted to know beforehand. Not for a second was I disappointed about having a daughter. I was just so stoked my kid was here and healthy it didn't matter.
Showed up at the end to give her the gifts and carry shit out to the car. Gotta love the posters that get their feelings hurt in other threads and carry it over to others. Politics. Almost everything is gender neutral now for baby gifts. We knew we were having more than one kid so we registered for all neutral stuff. I guess a lot of you guys that have never felt a boob arent experienced to know these things. Please dont procreate.
My best friend is a high school baseball coach. He had a few family and friends over to his house and his wife pitched him a ball; when he hit it, pink dust went flying. Neither one of them knew the gender prior to him hitting the ball. I thought that was kind of cool, given that he's a baseball coach.
Yea had to attend per godfather duties I guess On a CFB Saturday no less. Exploding golf ball reveal, whatever.
The only one of these things I've ever been to took place at the end of the couple's wedding rehearsal dinner a couple years ago. I was a groomsman, so I was there anyway. Fun fact: They are now divorced
Break-up reveal parties are fun, Devine's was the best. We met up at a restaurant and Devine had to chug a mojito to reveal the decision at the bottom of the glass. Spoiler: she left him. funny enough, he met Tobias that night.
This. I've been to a few. All of my friends that have had a baby in the last ~2 years have had one for each child. The two most recently hit golf balls that exploded with either pink or blue colored powder. The ones that I've been to had free alcohol and good food. And I enjoy hanging out with my friends. This is just another excuse for married guys on a leash to actually be able to hangout and get hammered while their wives are preoccupied with girl shit. Not really any negatives i could say about the parties outside of having to scroll past the pictures on my facebook newsfeed Shouldn't let people posting pictures of parties on Facebook upset you guys so much. Unless you're pissed you didn't get invited