Create your own printable invitations for baby showers

Sending out well designed printable invitations is essential to get baby showers off to a great start. After all, they're the first point of contact your guest has with the celebration. Printable invitations afford you greater flexibility than traditional pre-printed invites ordered from stores. You have better control over the design as well as the words. So it becomes easy to lend a touch of originality to your baby showers, right from the beginning.

Let's take a brief look at what basic information needs to go into your printable invitations for baby showers. Then we'll show you how to quickly and easily create your own invites.

You'll obviously always mention the expectant parents' names - and your name as the hostess. Date, time and venue are also essentials in your printable invitations. Sometimes, guests may not be very familiar with the venue for your baby shower - if so, include fairly detailed instructions; don't rely just on what you tell them on the phone.

For clarity's sake, mention who's being invited - is it only the addressee, or do you mean to include their spouse, kids and so on.

Let them know the RSVP details, name, phone numbers, email address. It's a good idea to mention a time limit by which you're requesting them to respond. Normally, this is about two weeks before the event. So your invites need to be ready for mailing sufficiently in advance of the baby showers.

Mention gift registry details, if mom-to-be's using one (local store / online registry).

Depending on the party themes and games, you may want a special dress code, or perhaps you want the guest to do certain things before she comes along. If so, clearly state these in the invitations. Also, if baby showers are being planned as a surprise, you should mention that fact in your invites. Else someone may call up mom-to-be in advance and spoil the show!

That more or less covers the basic elements that should go into your printable invitations. Use your imagination and creativity to cook up some outstanding ones for your baby showers!

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