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Where To Hold The Baby Shower

Most of our family and friends live 2 hours away as we moved a few years ago for jobs. Is it wrong to have the shower in the town we now live in - and ask all of those people to travel? Should we be the ones to travel back to our hometown for a shower? We also have no means to transporting anything people give us back to where we currently live if we do decide to have the shower in our original town.

Our Answer:

Hi,

Thanks for your etiquette question. My first question is...where is your hostess located? Is in in your new town or old town? It is important to have a hostess that can help you take care of these details and it will be important that hosting the baby shower is in a location that is also convenient to her.

It seems like you will have complications with either choice. If you throw a local baby shower where you currently live, the chances are not very high that you will have all of your friends and family travel the 2 hours to attend. A mother, sister or very close friend might, but with hectic schedules and children, it would be difficult to get a good turn out with a distance like that.

If the majority of my friends and family lived 2 hours away, I would travel to have the baby shower there. But I am not sure of your circumstances and why you do not have transportation with enough room to bring the presents back with you.

So your two choices are to...

1. Hold a smaller baby shower where you currently live, doing this you can...