I'm having a baby shower, but I don't want it to be traditional.?

RBrown · Yahoo User

At a traditional baby shower, everyone is invited to show up at a certain time...you have to wait for everyone to get there before you start. You sit in the center of the room and open up gifts while everyone looks at you. People are getting up and down to eat and some people have to leave before your finished. I want to have a shower, where everyone can arrive at anytime between lets say 2 and 6 pm. When they come in, they will be able to give me their gift where I will open it right then. They can get a snack, and stick around to chit-chat, and admire all the baby stuff I've gotten so far. Say for instance they have to be somewhere at 3:00pm. They can stop by about 2 and chat for a few minutes, grab a quick snack and then head on out. I also want to do this because my house isn't very big and I don't have enough room to seat 30+ people. I only have room for about 10. My question is, what would I call this event, how would I word it in my invitations?I had a HUGE baby shower when I was pregnant with my daughter. This time I'm having a boy. My mom is the hostess, but it's at my house. The 30 people are close friends and relatives. Alot of those people don't have time to stay and play games for a couple of hours. I want to be involved because it's held at my home. I just needed to know it there was such a party as the one I described. Such as a baby shower tea