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Ideas For Triplet Gender Reveal Party
I'd like some good ideas for how to reveal the genders of fraternal triplets at a gender reveal party.
I've heard of the idea to have your doctor write down the gender and seal it in an envelope. Then you take the envelope to a bakery, give it to an employee, have them bake you a cake, and fill it with either blue frosting for a boy or pink for a girl. Then at the party, you and your spouse cut into the cake and discover the gender when you see the color of the frosting on the blade of the knife. I like the idea, but I don't think we'll be needing three cakes.
What are two other ideas? I thought about maybe using punch or lemonade, blueberry flavored for a boy and strawberry for a girl. I am friends with employees and two different restaurants that could help me out with that. The could put it in some kind of container that's not transparent at all and the gender could be revealed when we pour the punch or lemonade, but is that lame?
I might use the punch/lemonade idea and get two cakes, or perhaps some cupcakes, half revealing the gender of baby #1 and half revealing the gender of baby #2. WDYT? My sister's not much for cake, so is there another dessert I can use in addition to a cake? Maybe have someone go get blueberry or strawberry ice cream?
I really want to use refreshments to reveal the kids' genders. I'm not crazy about the balloon idea or the outfit idea. WDYT?
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I have always thought these parties were awesome!
Pinata Reveal: get a Pinata and have someone fill it with blue or pink confetti! Then everyone takes a hit at the pinata, when it breaks the confetti comes pouring out!
M&M Cake: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Cream-Filled Cupcakes: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Silly String:
Buy blue and Pink silly string and then cover the containers with paper and then VIOLA! when sprayed it's either blue or pink!
Cookies:
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some of these were like your ideas so i'm sorry if I wasn't much help. They are a little different!
Congratulations & good luck! :)
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I've never heard of this before. I have always loved hosting parties for whatever occasions. Just because its not well known doesn't mean that there is a right or wrong way to do it. Sounds like you are very creative and have come up with lots of good idea's on your own. Perhaps you can be a trend setter, using ideas that are appealing to you and maybe many of your friends will copy them or pass those ideas on to other acquaintences. Would this be a self serve buffet line? Cus if someone chose to get a drink first and chose one for a particular name before getting a slice of cake with blue or pink filling, they'd already know on that one name so they'd have to choose a different name, 2nd child to get a slice of cake on. Sorry if I sound kinda dumb on this cus like I said i have no experience with gender parties, but I am kinda creative so all I can think is once a cake is cut into and a piece of two served already, anyone else approaching the cakes doesnt have to bite into a piece to know what the gender is. If you have help from people in the restaurant business, it might be more secretive and a surprise to have cream puff balls made, you know those bite size ones that look like donut hole sized pastry with a filling inside that needs to be kept cool. Cant think of professional name for it. But instead of normal white filling, it could be blue and pink fillings. Have 3 plates full for people to serve themselves from. They wont know the answer until they bite into one. If you wish to serve any type of food, hordevoures style, maybe something like those 'hot pockets' sandwich type snacks only fancier and instead of using blue and pink, use fillings that are different, crab filling means girl, hamburger filling or whatever, means boy. Or maybe tuna as in blue fin tuna is BOY and Pink salmon is Girl. All you need is to label the separate serving trays with the childrens names correctly and people will discover once they bite into what ever it is they are eating. If you know someone who knows how to make molded white chocolate---some craft stores like Michaels may have the molds and all, have blue teddy bears and pink teddy bears made, and find a way to wrap the individual chocolates so that until they unwrap they have no idea. I have no idea what the balloon or outfit ideas is but I am sure you will make the best decisions. good luck.
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I don't mean for my answer to be offensive, but in all my years of reading advice and etiquette columns the consensus is that these parties are unnecessary because, frankly, nobody gives a shit what gender your babies end up being.
My advice would be to just wait until the baby shower to party.
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