I may owe folks a big apology for going the wrong way on this.
After reading your note, it dawned on my this could have simply been an announcing of the baby’s sex.
The way the article was written, I came away thinking this was something other than what it may have been.
Ouch. I may have missed this by a mile. The writer too it seems.
Why not just address this as a baby shower, and the baby’s sex to be announced?
Good grief.
Oh, who knows? There's a lot of money spent in the party biz, regardless of the occasion.
The last baby shower I went to was about 9 years ago. The mother had already announced the baby's sex, so it was just a baby shower. Her older children were in junior high, so she needed new baby-stuff!
Why not just address this as a baby shower...?
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Oh, but you don’t understand. The baby shower is an entirely different party.
Next, you are going to tell me that you don’t know about staging engagement events, where one can actually hire people to set up the whole situation in which the hopeful suitor pops the question. It can be an exotic location, or in a hot-air balloon, etc. And your professional can record the whole event to be shown over and over again and posted on Facebook. And, of course, the the blushing maiden pretends to be surprised when she was actually the one who nagged him into doing the whole thing.