Hey friends, welcome back to the channel and if you are new here, I am Coco bringing the best tips, tricks, and tutorials that make having fun affordable. In today's video, we are doing seven tips for having the best baby shower ever. So stay tuned. The most important thing for having the best baby shower is to pick your location and date and time. You don't only want to maximize your guest count, but you also want to make sure that the mommy to be is available that date and time as well. You want to factor in the weather, if it's outside inside, and also if you are going to need any, you know, lamp, lights, heaters, things like that. Typically you want to start planning a baby shower one to two months in advance, so you want to pick a date one to two months before the due date of the baby. So if the baby is due in June, you want to have the baby shower sometime around April, mid-April, end of April. Second tip you want to factor in is your budget. Think on how many people you want to invite, that will kind of determine your budget for food, your budget for decorations, party favors, desserts, etc. So you want to get a maximum number of guest lists on your list, and then from that either dwindle it down into who may or may not show up. And then also you want to keep in mind that a lot of the times with baby showers, birthday parties, any kind of event, not everyone shows up anyway. So you usually get a 75% success rate, and you want to make sure on your invitations that you do have an RSVP date, so then that way when guests are confirming that they are able to show up, you have enough time to order food, tables and chairs, things like that. Now tip number three is my favorite. So before I get into that tip, make sure you guys subscribe and comment down below at the end of the video what is your favorite tip. So tip number three is when you choose your theme and decor. So this is my favorite because of course I'm an event designer and balloon artist and I love anything that has to do with color and designing and coordinating themes. I always try and pick two main colors for my themes, whether there is a character and well they're not, and then I will pick a texture or a pattern as my accent or super Mario. I would choose something like reds, yellows, greens and blues as your colors, and you want to just focus on two of those main colors and then maybe have a print or a texture as your accent. You want to make sure not only do you have bits and pieces of super Mario in there, but you don't want to oversaturate the party as well. So for a Disney princess, you would probably pick pinks and purples as your two main colors and then for your accent you might have a pink with white polka dots as your accent color. So accents don't have to necessarily be a color. They are just, they are to enhance the party so you could also pick something neutral like gold or white as your accent color. I always like to keep in mind that not everybody likes to do the interactive games so you do want to have maybe a mix, you do want to have a mix of games that are not only interactive and physical but then also games that are also on paper like a word search or a crossword something that the people can have like a time, a certain amount of time to do or a game that people can do throughout the baby shower and then announce the winner at the end. Number five, you want to have prizes for the games that I just mentioned in number four, but then also you want to have keepsakes for all your total guests to take home and remember the special date. So you can have something that is specific to the date or the mom to be or the couple or the baby's name, something like that or you can have something generic like favorite boxes that match your theme. So as long as it's kind of coordinated or fits into the theme I think guests are usually happy no matter what it is it's cute and it's something that they can leave the party with. Now number six, number six is also my favorite because just like number three so if you didn't catch number three go back and listen to that. But number six is that wow factor. I always believe in having some type of wow factor to wow your guests as soon as they come in. You always want to think about what people are going to take the most pictures of. So sometimes it's the dessert table, it's super coordinated or it has a bunch of candy on it, colorful candy and there's like this big backdrop behind it. So you always want to think is my dessert table my back, my wow factor is there a separate photo area that is actually going to be set up with balloons and a separate backdrop. The majority of your decorating budget will go to this wow factor, focus on that and making that super coordinated and not really worry too much about dessert plates or things like that that don't that can be coordinated with your party but really clear plates, white plates most of the time work fine and you don't have to overdo your theme with the super coordinated plates because you're going to have that wow factor so no one's really going to care about what the plate looks like when you put a cake on it. Number seven I feel is something that I focus on the most, the flow of the party. So not only will you have to worry about where your party is taking place but I also think of location as also the layout of the party. This is something that I do as a walk through once I know where we're having the party, what kind of food we're buying, what our budget is as far as decorations and are we going to have a dessert table decorated or are we going to have a separate photo area. Once I have all these other factors in place that I've talked about previously, you want to basically maybe one to two months especially if the party is going to be at your home or if it's at a venue that you have visited before, go back and look at pictures or go back and take video of where the party, the majority of the guests are going to be and where the party is going to take place. One of my other videos I actually did this and showed you guys in real time like me walking through my backyard because I was going to have a baby shower at my house and I was basically getting an understanding of where everything was going to be laid out, where everything was going to be. So that way when I'm preparing to set up everything for the party, I know where everything's going to go. I usually take pictures of locations or if I'm setting up a dessert table, I take pictures of where I want all the dishes to go before I even fill them so a lot of people overlook these types of things also the flow of the guests. Like you think about layout and the fact of how walk the party as if you were the guest itself. Where am I going to be accessing food? Where am I going to be accessing drinks? Where are the trash cans? Where am I going to, where are the guests going to be sitting? What are the high traffic areas? Because those areas you want to also make sure that they're clear of any obstacles or debris and you also want to make sure that guests have easy access to food, drinks and a clear path to the bathroom. If you guys are planning your own baby shower or know of someone that could use these tips and please share this video with them and comment down below if you guys have any tips that you want to add to the list also, we could make it a top 10 tips list. So if you guys enjoy this video, let me know by giving it a like and I will see you in the next one. Stay crafty.