Baby Shower Brunch Ideas You will Love

If you are getting ready to host a baby shower and need some inspiration, here are some amazing baby shower brunch ideas that will keep it budget-friendly and gorgeous at the same time! It doesn’t matter which color scheme you choose, your creativity will flow with these ideas that will help you host the most beautiful baby shower (or any party) any time of year and for any gender with these sweet ideas!

My bestie and I are basically the same person and she is becoming a Mimi now, too! Within one year of each other. We have known each other since middle school and our kids grew up together.

So it is no surprise that when she told me she would be hosting the baby shower at her house, I would be helping her pull it all together.

We always buy the same home decor without consulting one anothe, we show up in the same outfit unexpectedly, and we even bought miniature yorkies within a day of one another when we didn’t know the other was getting a puppy.

It is actually kind of crazy! Do you have a friend like that, too?

I am surprised we didn’t end up wearing the same thing for the baby shower, lol.

I love her dress, don’t you?! I already asked and it is from a boutique in Florida so I can’t tell you where to get one.

She had to prep for 100 people to attend the shower and knew that she could call me up to help and we would pull it together beautifully and in a budget-friendly way.

That is a lot of people to plan for in your own backyard. So how could we make it both cost-effective, efficient AND amazing?

Baby Shower Hosting Essentials

You can find my entire list of hosting essentials for any party on this list. Skip hours of searching for the perfect items. I have collected them all for you from balloon arches to cups!

Baby Shower Brunch Ideas for Decor

She planned the colors and did most of the work curating the items for the shower ahead of time and then I came in the day before and helped her pull all of her ideas together to create something beautiful!

The parents-to-be didn’t want to know what they were having, so the baby shower remained neutral, with greens, golds, and creams.

Let’s start with this balloon arch. We saved HUNDREDS by doing it ourselves! We had done several before in the past for a big event and knew just how we would do it.

Stay tuned for my upcoming balloon arch post! I will tell you the easiest way to make one, what to avoid, and where you can get all of the supplies!

She spotted a FREE cradle on FB Marketplace and snatched it up!

The shower was going to be held outside on a gorgeous Colorado Summer day so she wanted it to sit at the entrance gate to show where everyone could enter into the yard. (This photo was taken after a few of the littles attending the shower got their hands on the stuffed animals. Proof that this can be a family-friendly affair!)

She painted it green and decided to fill it with stuffed animals. Then we added balloons to the cradle to draw attention to the gate entrance so people didn’t need to flow through the house to get to the shower.

They had an antique frame sitting in their attic so we pulled it out and turned it into a chalkboard by painting the back of the frame with chalkboard paint. It created the perfect opportunity to welcome visitors!

To thank people for coming we used little brown bags filled with sweets.

She chose the sweetest little bunny paper from the craft store to make the tags for them, punched holes in the bags, and attached the tags with jute string.

The tags say “Thank You for making our day so sweet! Your presence means so much to us.”

I took the leftover bunny paper and cut out swallowtail pennants. Then I punched two holes at the the top of each pennant, and strung the leftover jute string through to create a bunting.

Creating the pennants was so easy! If you want to get out a ruler you sure can, but I just eyeballed everything.

I divided the paper into three and cut strips. I cut the strips into threes making a total of 9 rectangles. I then stacked the rectangles and cut angles toward the center creating the swallowtail.

Then we used some leftover jute string and weaved it through to create little buntings for the fronts of all of the tables. We attached them with little safety pins to the tablecloths.

They turned out so cute!

Making the effort to add little touches like the buntings, putting simple instructions in frames, sweet hand-written food labels, or layering items in a basket will elevate your event.

We added a pretty basket for any anticipated cards on the gift table and a pretty basket to hold the parting gift bags.

Easy Baby Shower Brunch Ideas for your Tables

She already had several folding tables and chairs from the yard (for some reason she has no shortage of them) so we set them up and got busy adding pretty green tablecloths that I already had from another event, which elevated the feel of the shower.

I prefer cloth tablecloths for dining so I can reuse them and they launder nicely. And I like plastic cloths for the food tables so I can just throw them away if they get food or drinks all over them.

It doesn’t matter if you are hosting a birthday party, retirement party, baby shower, etc. The simple addition of tablecloths always takes an event to the next level.

Adding a simple runner of gathered gauze will add another layer to the table to make it interesting. It isn’t hard to layer and it looks like you went above and beyond for your guests.

For the vases on the tables, we opted for mason jars. My bestie doesn’t have a shortage of these either.

She went to Trader Joe’s and picked up the most beautiful real florals to fill the jars with.

I think that Trader Joe’s has the best assortment and the most reasonable price for flowers! You can get so many beautiful vases out of just a few bouquets.

Since the shower was outside it was so pretty with the green grass, green tablecloths, gauze runners that ran the entire length of the tables, and flowers in beautiful, simple jars that reflected the sunlight.

Using the jars also kept the space open between guests so they could talk across the table to one another.

If you’re looking for other amazing and easy ways to arrange grocery store flowers, check out my creative floral design tips!

Perfect Baby Shower Brunch Food Ideas

The food was perfect for the event and was ordered online ahead of time from….wait for it…… the grocery store!

What a time-saver!

It was so easy for her to go to our local grocery store’s website and preorder everything from the menu. She just picked everything up the morning of the shower and saved herself a ton of prep time! The trays were beautifully done which pleasantly surprised us! We didn’t have to re-do anything.

She opted for shrimp cocktail, finger sandwiches, mixed fresh fruit and veggie platters. All of the food was beautifully presented and I was shocked that a grocery store did such a fantastic job!

To keep the food chilled I took the lids of the grocery store platters and turned them upside down. Then I added ice to the turned over lids and placed the platters on top. This worked great for the morning/afternoon event!

You could also opt to take everything out of the plastic store platters and put them on your own beautiful serving platters to elevate the experience.

But we had so many platters that it would have been too much to keep up with for 100 people so we decided to just keep it more simple for ourselves.

We also had adorable little mesh covers for the platters so the bugs couldn’t get to the food.

In the end, it didn’t really matter that the food was served in the store-provided platters. Everyone enjoyed the event!

Drinks were served in beautiful dispensers. We had lemonade with fresh sliced lemons, water with fresh cucumber and lemons, sweetened and unsweetened iced tea. And we also had little chalk-written labels for the dispensers. So cute!

The cupcakes were specially ordered from a local bakery and they were GORGEOUS! We served them on a beautiful and oversized charcuterie board.

If you’re looking for items I have in the post you can check out my curated list of baby shower brunch ideas. Everything from the balloon arch kit to the cute little BABY boxes are on it! And everything other thing you might need to make your party a baby shower brunch a success!

This was a mixed shower with husbands, wives, kids, and grandparents and it turned out just the way she had hoped. We played the cutest games and the mom and dad-to-be were just so appreciative of the thoughtfulness that went into every detail.

Aren’t they SO cute!!  (And yes, he carried around that watermelon for a long time!)

Even though my bestie’s yard added to the beauty of the sweetest baby shower, these baby shower brunch ideas can be applied in any type of setting, any time of the year!

If you have an idea to add, I would love to hear about it in the comments!

If you are looking for another idea, check out How I Made an Arch Photo Backdrop from Construction Foam.  Yes, I made those!

I hope these sweet ideas helped you begin to imagine how you can create a beautiful and successful event and have found how these baby shower brunch ideas can be applied to any party you want to host!

UPDATE:  They had a baby boy!!