When planning a baby shower, one of the most important things you should focus on is the invitations. Instead of picking a random design, you should consider making custom baby shower invitations according to the theme of the party.

Even though you’re sending them first, before you make them you should establish other things related to the shower:

- decide which colors are going to be predominant and choose those accordingly to the gender of the baby. If you still don’t know then go for soft shades of green, yellow or orange. This means that your card should have the same colors too or a sweet combination of those. For example, you can pick a key-lime color for the paper and write the text with orange

- choose the theme of the party and the decorations. There are tons of ideas you can choose from: you can focus on baby clothes and toys and make decorations accordingly or you can focus on different characters from cartoons and so on. If you go with the cartoons then on the invitation there should be displayed at least one character. Or if the baby shower is for a girl and you go with a flowery theme you can print on the invitations a flower border. The flowers on the border could be the mother’s favorite ones.

Here are some ideas of how you can make custom baby shower invitations and how to make them original:

- Choose the wording carefully. If you’re going for a standard text then choose something funny, but if you’re good with words you should write something yourself, the mother will definitely appreciate it. Also, using a poem is a good way to go

- Make sure to include the mother’s name and if it’s already decided, the baby’s name too. Also don’t forget about the date and the time of the shower and the address where is going to take place.

- Forget about the standard card format and choose something funnier. Make the invite shaped as a diaper or a little baby body. If these two ideas don’t fit with your theme you can also make invites shaped as baby bottles, ducks, flowers and so on

If you have the time then you should make custom invitations because they are not only less expensive than the ones you buy from the store or order over the Internet but also because they provide the expectant mother and the guests with a great memory of that day.