Baby shower invitation

Mother Goose

A rhyme is read aloud before each gift is opened, and tea follows in the reading room.

Part of the TinselLux™ collection: invitations in stitched leather, tufted velvet, linen and satin.

The material is the card: linen with a visible weave, velvet with a nap, leather with its grain. It costs the same as every other invitation.

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Guests arrive with storybooks instead of bows, and each one takes a turn reading a nursery rhyme aloud. The old ones are short, so the whole circle gets through in under half an hour.

After the reading, the tea is poured and the sandwiches and scones come out. Gifts are opened slowly, with the books stacked separately so the parents can see what the shelf will hold. People write their names and a line of verse on the inside covers before they leave, and the stack goes home to the nursery that evening.

What goes on it

Every line replaceable

The wording on this card

Please join us to welcome
Baby Thorne
Saturday, December 4, 2027 · 3 PM
READING ROOM · 6 Bluebell Lane, Wool Hill, RI
Rhymes aloud. Tea after.

Every line of the wording is an example, and yours to replace. The title is painted into the artwork. Type your own and it is drawn again with your words.

What to actually tell people

Assign the rhymes in advance Write one nursery rhyme on a card for each guest and set the cards on the chairs before anyone arrives. Nobody has to think of one on the spot, and no rhyme gets read twice.
Ask for a book instead of a card Put the request in the invitation: a storybook, inscribed on the inside cover. Leave a pen on the side table so guests can sign before the reading begins.
Pass something to mark the turn A small object handed from reader to reader keeps the circle moving without anyone calling names. A wooden egg, a ribbon or a pressed feather all work.
Set the tea for after, not during Pour once the last rhyme is read, so cups and saucers are not moving while someone is reading. Scones, butter and one pot of strong tea are enough for twelve.

Start from this one

The artwork
Keep this one, or describe your own party and get artwork drawn for it.
The wording
Every line on this card is an example, the painted title included. Change all of it; the design holds.
Sending
By text, from your own number. Guests open a link. Nothing to download.
The price
One credit for the invitation. Six guests or sixty, the number does not move.