I know what you are thinking, who serves pizza at a baby shower? Pizza has really grown up over the years though. I love a traditional baby shower for that first baby, but when you want to shower someone who is on baby number 2, 3, 4, etc... and most likely has most of the 'big' items, it is nice to have a more laid-back, smaller shower.
My friend Amanda is expecting her 3rd baby in a few weeks and our circle of girlfriends wanted to get together to celebrate our mama friend and her baby girl. We all have children so our Saturdays and Sundays are filled with soccer games, birthday parties and other commitments so we decided to have a Friday night baby shower. I must say, it was so nice and relaxing. I was hosting, so I tried to think of something a little bit different and pizza just kept popping up in my head so I decided to go with it. I told all of the guests that it would be a build-your-own pizza party. I supplied all of the dough, sauce and toppings. I think the guests had a fun time making their own pizza. The only tricky part was timing because I could not have all the pizzas in the oven at the same time so I made two pizzas before the guests arrived so we could start eating some pizza and salad while the others were in the oven. The two pizzas I made were a pesto, artichoke and spinach pizza and a prosciutto, pear and arugula pizza. They both were delicious.
I squeezed all 11 ladies in my dining room. I knew it would be close quarters, but there is something so special about sitting around a candlelit table together, so we made it work. I decorated the table with small white pumpkins along with greenery and flowers that I picked up at the grocery store. I arranged the flowers in our moscow mule mugs and tumblers. I thought it was a nice, subtle fall centerpiece for a baby shower.
I was not good about taking many pictures, but below gives you just a little taste of the lovely evening we had!
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