The Chocablock Party & Wedding Blog

With everything going on in your final trimester, it can be difficult to find the energy to throw a baby shower for yourself. But trust us, it’s worth it. Once the baby is born, you’ll feel like celebrating in large groups even less for a while so this is a chance to gather all your friends and celebrate you and your baby-to-be.Once you’ve nailed down your venue, which for 90% of us is at home, it …

Think of all the old traditions that we have strived to break over the years. Going back even to just the 80’s, the ladies would clean up the dinner party while the men drink brandy in the billiard room, men asked other men for your hand in marriage (i.e. your father) and dads waited out in the waiting room while mums were in labour. Well, it’s time to break yet another tradition and oust the fem …

So you’re great friend is expecting and now you need to think of something truly original to gift her at her baby shower. There’s a choice to be made between giving her something practical (which could be boring and potentially given by three of her other friends) and something original that nobody else will think of, but may run the risk of never getting used. Whichever way you go, you don’t …