Tonya
09-22-2004, 02:34 PM
My dilemma...
My mother, my step-mother, and my mother-in-law want to throw me a baby shower. My two best friends and my other mother-in-law wanted to also, but I was able to ask them not to gently. (Or perhaps they were relieved because they aren't the party throwing type. :D )
But...that still leaves me with three showers and I cannot combine them because:
A: That'd be about 200 people all together.
B: My mom and step-mom can't be in the same city together let alone the same room.
C: My husband's side of the family and my family live a few hours away in opposite directions, so everyone would have to travel to far.
So, it sounds like the only solution is to wind up with three baby showers or zero baby showers. I know everyone will be offended if I tell them I don't want them to throw me a shower.
But also, I feel like it is tacky to have three. I figured if I do have three, I will only register once. Everyone can use the same registry, so that part would work out ok. No one would be invited to more then one shower. My girlfriends from this area can go to my mom's shower, my step-mom's family is HUGE so that'll be the biggest. They'll fly out from the Philippines and Guam because that's just how they are. My in-law's shower, would be small, and I'd invite the friends that live in that area to that one.
But is this tacky? Having three showers? I don't know how to resolve this situation.
My mother, my step-mother, and my mother-in-law want to throw me a baby shower. My two best friends and my other mother-in-law wanted to also, but I was able to ask them not to gently. (Or perhaps they were relieved because they aren't the party throwing type. :D )
But...that still leaves me with three showers and I cannot combine them because:
A: That'd be about 200 people all together.
B: My mom and step-mom can't be in the same city together let alone the same room.
C: My husband's side of the family and my family live a few hours away in opposite directions, so everyone would have to travel to far.
So, it sounds like the only solution is to wind up with three baby showers or zero baby showers. I know everyone will be offended if I tell them I don't want them to throw me a shower.
But also, I feel like it is tacky to have three. I figured if I do have three, I will only register once. Everyone can use the same registry, so that part would work out ok. No one would be invited to more then one shower. My girlfriends from this area can go to my mom's shower, my step-mom's family is HUGE so that'll be the biggest. They'll fly out from the Philippines and Guam because that's just how they are. My in-law's shower, would be small, and I'd invite the friends that live in that area to that one.
But is this tacky? Having three showers? I don't know how to resolve this situation.