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Baby showers are usually beautiful affairs in which family and friends come together to celebrate the impending birth of a new little one and support the parents to be emotionally, socially, and physically as well through gifts. In return there are tasteful snacks, baby shower favors, decorations, and other lovely touches to add to the evening. But what about when the shower goes wrong? Here are 10 of the worst case scenarios when it comes to hosting a baby shower: 1. The hosts write “Baby loves gift receipts” on the invitations. We get it, not every present is the greatest or goes perfectly with what the parents were thinking. However, asking for gift receipts up front is rude, uncivil, and most definitely tacky. Trying to make it cute just twists the knife deeper. New parents should not be after the money, and something like this that implies you are is a no-go. 2. The parents to be host the shower themselves. Traditionally family or friends host. The reason? Celebrating oneself seems selfish, self centered, even greedy. Even the illusion of others coming into help you is better than an appearance of you asking others to help you. 3. The mom-to-be is antisocial. Pregnancy can be hard and there may be days where you don’t want to see people. But if that day is during your shower, get over it, get out of your room, and enjoy the festivities as much as you can. 4. Complaints about the gift. This actually occurs most often from the parents or hosts, perhaps commenting about gifts they were surprised no one got or gifts that they don’t think will work well or are impractical. Thankfulness is not something that can be forgotten with age. It must endure. 5. Don’t force the guests to help you clean up the entire space. A little bit is fine, please put your chairs around the table, cups beside the sink when you leave, for instance, but head-locking them into dishes or taking out the trash or moving all the chairs back into the truck is not ok. 6. Don’t you hate it when people are late or don’t show up at all? With guests it may happen, there may be circumstances out of their control. But if a host or a close family member does it is not ok and there should be some gentle words, hopefully beforehand if it looks like it will be an issue. 7. People are invited, or pulled along, who don’t know the parents to be. Again, not cool and takes the celebration out of an intimate group of family or friends. It can be awkward. 8. When the hosts take the theme way to seriously it can create big problems. Jungle or butterfly or polka dot showers are fine, but don’t punish people, comment, or remove presents if something doesn’t match or someone doesn’t want to participate in every single activity. It may be cute, but it isn’t everything.
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