What are the rules for gender reveal?

I suggest you report your OP to GNHQ and ask them to post it on a more suitable forum Cambsnan.

I’ve no answer to your question, but perhaps repost under a different heading rather than bereavement.

We don't take a gift.

I've never been to one but if there's going to be a baby shower later, I wouldn't take a gift.

I find that gender reveals are nothing more than an attention grab. Personally, I haven’t waisted any time attending one despite several invites.

*wasted

We didnt take a gift.

I saw a little video clip of a gender reveal the other day. They had a big balloon, which presumably had pink or blue confetti in it. Big sister had been given a sharp pair of scissors to pop the balloon, but instead, she smartly cut the string and the assembled party gazed open-mouthed as it floated away!

I think that for me, the rule would be that I am unable to attend due to a previous engagement.

Chocolatelovinggran

I think that for me, the rule would be that I am unable to attend due to a previous engagement.

I think I would also have one too!

Is that the same as a baby shower? Quite a few mums to be have them these days for friends and family. They can collect baby clothes etc and these days,for young ones, it is probably a way of saving money. Don’t forget many have massive mortgages, much bigger than anything we had and they need all the help they can get.

I really struggle with this sort of stuff and nonsense brought to us from across the pond as most of our new ‘traditions’ are.
Reveals? baby showers? Oh dear. Good excuses for more gifts. Call me bah humbug if you like

Never been to one but I think I'd take something small and neutral - a set of spoons for example - wrapped up in my handbag so I was ready to produce a gift if it was expected.

Baby showers seem to be much closer to the date of expected birth - two days before in my DD case!

nanna8

Is that the same as a baby shower? Quite a few mums to be have them these days for friends and family. They can collect baby clothes etc and these days,for young ones, it is probably a way of saving money. Don’t forget many have massive mortgages, much bigger than anything we had and they need all the help they can get.

No, not the same, nanna8 - it’s where they “reveal” if it’s to be a boy or girl.
Baby shower later!

nanna8

Is that the same as a baby shower? Quite a few mums to be have them these days for friends and family. They can collect baby clothes etc and these days,for young ones, it is probably a way of saving money. Don’t forget many have massive mortgages, much bigger than anything we had and they need all the help they can get.

No, quite different from a baby shower. A gender reveal party is held to announce the gender of the baby. Baby showers are when most people would take along a gift.

I have never been to one but, I would assume there is going to be food and things, so maybe you could ask if you can bring something to contribute to that? Then you won't arrive empty handed?

So, we now have ‘gender reveal’, baby shower, then maybe christening or ‘naming ceremony’. How long before we’re invited to attend the birth, or, God forbid, the conception?

Think people are already invited to the birth , though usually it’s family not friends or neighbours

GrandmaKT had such a laugh at your post 😂
No you don't need a gift at gender reveal though I would probably take some eatables.

Nope, if there is going to be a baby shower later, take a gift to that. Frankly, I would avoid both (and there will be both, anyone who is tacky enough to have a gender reveal, will have a grabby baby shower too). Sorry, but I dislike both 'events', and prefer to give a gift when the baby is here, and when I can ask what the parents would like or need. Apologies to anyone whose children have had one!

I’m very pleased not to have been invited to such an occasion, nor a baby shower. Tacky American ideas.

lixy

Never been to one but I think I'd take something small and neutral - a set of spoons for example - wrapped up in my handbag so I was ready to produce a gift if it was expected.

Baby showers seem to be much closer to the date of expected birth - two days before in my DD case!

Tommee Tippee spoons?

😃

Daddima

So, we now have ‘gender reveal’, baby shower, then maybe christening or ‘naming ceremony’. How long before we’re invited to attend the birth, or, God forbid, the conception?

Daddima !!

😂😂😂

Ps I was drinking my tea 😂