Baby shower by mail help please....?

Question

I am a military wife & we don't live near friends or family so I don't have anyone to throw me a baby shower. I am wanting to try to do one by mail for myself but am unsure how to go about this. We don't have any friends in the local area so there would be no actual party or anything like that. I knew we wouldn't really get a baby shower so we have purchased the major items ourself. But I have had a few family members ask where I am registered. I have made a registry with Target & Walmart & so thought it would be nice to try to have one by mail since thats the closest we will get to one since this is our 1st child. If anyone could tell me maybe what to put in an invatation like mailing to go out to friends & family that if we were home we would invite. Please help.

Answer 1

dont listen to all of these negative comments... A baby shower is indeed a celebration of a new life, but maybe u can try something like sending out the invitations and allowing family members and friends the option to receive a tape of u opening all of ur gifts, cutting ur cake, and whatever... Start a new tradition! Its hard being a military wife

(i am not one, but i could only imagine) so why not indulge in the very things that other mommy to be's can. If u would like u could always set up a webcam and connect to family members while ur opening gifts. OR after the baby comes, u could always arrange to go back to ur hometown where ur friends and family are located and throw a welcome baby party...only difference would be everybody would already know what u have and need AND the baby will be there... O honey, i wish u luck. If at all possible try the second option of going home a few weeks or months after the baby is born. that way not only will u be celebrating by having a party, but everybody will be able to meet the new addition! good luck!

Answer 2

Sorry, but you really shouldn't throw yourself a baby shower.  It is in poor taste to do so.  If nobody offers to throw one for you, you simply don't have one.

But family and friends are going to want to buy you things for the baby, shower or not.  You already have a registry, so if anyone asks if you are registered, you can tell them.  But don't send out any kind of mass announcements or anything else telling people where you are registered, because that will just look like you are asking for gifts (which you would be).

Answer 3

If no one is throwing you a shower, you shouldn't be having one...  And having a "shower by mail" has got to be the tackiest thing I have every heard of!  A baby shower is a celebration of a new life, what you are proposing is just fishing for free stuff.  

Answer 4

I don't know about a baby shower by mail. Mine were given for me by friends. Have you made friends where you live by you who are in the military? I would just respond to inquiries from family and friends by letting them know where you registered.