1 Month Before

Hosting a Skype Shower can be immensely enjoyable for party guests, hosts, and the Guest of Honor who is unable to attend! This blog will provide you with an outline and everything you need to throw a great Skype shower to celebrate your long-distance friend or family member's special day. 

Lets get started.

1 Month before:

-Choose your theme (for example, we chose the Rainforest theme from Fisher Price)
-Buy your decorations right away to ensure you can go with your theme. Checklist:

• Invitations w/ envelopes
• Table cloths--pick up 2-3, or at least one more than you think you'll need
• Napkins
• Small plates (for dessert/appetizers)
• Large plates (for main course)
• Party favor bags
• Streamers/signs that celebrate the occasion, ex. "Baby" or "Bride to Be")
• Disposable forks, spoons, knives

-Send out invitations! Here is the golden nugget of information: What WORDING do you use when you are inviting guests to a Skype Shower? We had to make up our own and included it inside the store-bought invitations. Here is what we wrote on ours, when the guest of honor (at 37 weeks pregnant) lived in Boston and the shower was in WI:

     First little giggle, first little tear--our newest arrival is almost here!

            For mommy & baby it is too late to fly, so we thought we'd give a Skype Shower a try!

  A first little baby is worth all the hype--
  so come join in the fun while we rev up the Skype!

Do you have some creative ideas for wording? We weren't sure how invitees would respond to being invited to a shower when the guest of honor wouldn't be there, so we were intentional about admitting it was a new endeavor for us. We also included a note at the bottom about where the GOH was registered and how that store handled shipping gifts.