A Little Bunny is on the Way Baby Shower – Hosting Tips and Breakdown

Baby Showers are the best.

There’s nothing better than celebrating a new life coming into the world, especially when it’s your best friend’s baby 😉

However, lots of baby showers can be overdone. I’ve been seeing excessive, wedding-like tablescapes with giant flower bouquets (typically stuffed with baby’s breath).

I love a good, big, dramatic party, but we wanted to create something small, intimate, and sweet, and we stuck with a guest list of around 30 people – the ones that would be in the baby’s life the most.

Planning:

Our Theme was – A Little Bunny is on the Way. She originally told me “Beatrix Potter” meets “Farmers Market”. Easy.

I, of course, started with a Pinterest board to lock in the general vision and inspiration. After gathering all the ideas, I began to sort everything out in Notion – this is my number one favorite tool for organizing my parties.

I made a color scheme as well, so I knew what I was look for visually when shopping.

On my notion page, I included a check list with ALL of the shopping links for what I need to purchase for the party, as well as a check list of all the items I already had in my hosting repertoire. For the invites, we used Green Envelope, which is my favorite. I love that you can add music and an actual envelope. The tracking feature is also super nice for following up with guests who haven’t submitted their RSVP’s.

The Menu:

For the farmers’ market touch, we started a few types of sandwiches.

#1: Mozzarella, Arugula, Prosciutto, Pesto, Balsamic on a French baguette

#2 A BLT: Bacon, Romaine Lettuce, Tomato, Carmalized Onions, Homemade Chipotle Mayo on a French baguette

#3: Classic PBJ on light bread

Next, we of course had a fruit tray with strawberries and apricots.

A veggie spread with a green goddess dip.

Butter Crossoints and Bruschetta Toasts.

Vanilla cupcakes with raspberries for dessert.

To drink, we had Poppies, Lemonade, and Water

Decor:

For the welcome table, we had a mini Peter Rabbit guest book for each person to sign and write a note for the baby.

Next to it, I set a rattan three tiered wicker shelf for a little library for the guest to leave their books for the baby, as well as gifts.

Throughout the whole space, I took a different kinds of picnic baskets and rattan buckets and filled them with stuffed animals, root veggies such as carrots, radishes, and squashes.

We did do a mini table spread with rattan placemats, two blue plates, glass water goblets, green napkins, and a few bud-vases with daisies in them.

For a simple activity (plus a little decor), we set up a painting table with bibs and a clothesline for our guests to decorate bibs for parents to take home. I also set up a meal train QR code sign so that the parents could get a head start on getting support from friends and family once the baby arrives.

The main food table scape was the focal point. Using lots of different baskets, checkered napkins, and slightly lifted wooden trays, I was

able to create a super cute food display that tied the entire theme together.

Some Hosting Hacks:

#1 Get your decorative produce at a discount grocery store. Since these will be sitting out all day and won’t be eaten, don’t waste your money on getting organic, fresh veggies.

Sometimes you can also find sodas there at a discount – this is where I got the variety pack of poppies, which typically retails for $35, and I got it on sale for $17.

#2 Prep all of your sandwich bread beforehand. Tearing out the centers of all of the baguettes the day before saved us so much time the day of when putting together all of the food.

#3 Invest in the tablecloths. If you are a regular hostess, then you know that just buying the white/ivory table cloths is so worth it. Do yourself a favor and go to TJ Maxx or Amazon and order them instead of trying to rent or borrow them. You can also thrift these but a nice clean, ironed tablecloth will always pull a space together.