Mini-Miller Gender Reveal Party

Since I promised that I would do a post on the Mini-Miller Gender Reveal Party, here it is!

The "theme" I came up with on the fly was "Miniature"...since we referred to Declan as the "Mini-Miller" before we knew he was a HE.  I decided that I wanted to do a single balloon reveal and have people "wear their guesses."

Firstly, since we would be having people to our house that had never been there before, I wanted to distinguish our house from the others on the block.  Ryan bought some pink balloons and some blue balloons and I attached them to the stair railing in front of our house as well as to some wire plant-props that were stationed at the end of the driveway.  No pictures of that, sorry!

Secondly, I wanted people to "wear" their guesses and own them!  So, I cut out miniature pink hearts and miniature black mustaches and sewed them onto small safety pins.  When the guests entered the house, they were greeted by this sign I made:

"We mustache you to make a gender guess...please pin your guess to your shirt.

This way, we'll be able to see who is a good guesser!"

That actually took a LOT of work but was completely worth it.  So cute and it expresses a little bit of my "lame" sense of "punny" humor.

Next, I made my "gender reveal box."  I picked out a free font I liked and printed out on appropriately-colored circles "girl or boy?" and taped them to the outside of the box.  I then tied a pink ribbon, a blue ribbon, and a cream-colored ribbon around the box with the "It's A BOY" balloon inside (ribbons not pictured).  Ryan put one of the profile pictures of Declan into a frame and added some blue and pink M&M's in front to complete the display.

 I tried to make or use or creatively name a bunch of "miniature" or "small" or "bite-sized" foods to keep with the theme.  I served:  baby-goldfish crackers, "bite-sized" puppy chow, mini-smores mix, Auntie Em's Cookies, and Fizzy Raspberry Lemonade.  I made little stand up tags for each dish to inform my guests what the food was.  Below is the best picture of the "food" table as Ryan forgot to take a picture of the table.

Promptly at 7:00 pm we moved the box to the dining room table and prepared to reveal to our guests the gender of the Mini-Miller!

BOY!

In the picture above you can see the banner I made that spells out "?Mini Miller?" in alternating pink and blue circles.  All I did was print them off, cut them out then tape them to some spare yarn I had.  I then tied it to the curtain rods.  The above picture also shows some more of the food. 

We had a lot of fun.  After all the guests left, we started the "after-party" with the pets:

Mr. Moo sure loved those balloons!

Moo would get the end of the string attached to the balloons and then parade around the dining room with them.

Sammy was, of course, afraid of the balloons...wuss!

 Then Mr. Moo started trying to eat the strings and we had to take them away.  I think I know what he's getting for Christmas, though!  It was too funny and a great end to the busy and fun day!

I tried to make this post brief.  I hope you enjoyed it!

Toodles!

~ N ~