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The hardest part of the planning process for our gender reveal was deciding the HOW for the actual reveal. If you do any surfing on the web, you know there are TONS of ideas out there for gender reveals. Seriously, just search “Gender Reveal” on Pinterest, and you will be overwhelmed with photos. As a creative in the event industry, I always feel pressure to be original with concepts and ideas – like it is expected of me. That’s really hard sometimes! I thought to myself, what can we do that hasn’t been done a thousand times over? That too is a tough question to answer.
After days of brainstorming, my heart was sold on confetti poppers for our reveal. I just love the childish happiness that every person feels when standing under confetti falling from the sky. There are plenty of great sources online to purchase pre-made confetti poppers, but I decided to take the DIY approach. I just wasn’t confident in purchasing the product online and not knowing if they would actually “pop” for the big moment. There are several DIY how-to guides on blogs, and I think Lauren Conrad’s Guide is the most accurate to follow. An important note – none of the DIY guides online actually show the activation [launching] of the confetti popper. This can be very misleading for expectations.
Come with me for this pretty vision {wishful thinking} in my head:
On a beautiful sunny day, all my family members hover around anxiously waiting on a 3,2,1 countdown as the confetti launches from the confetti poppers. A major cloud of confetti explodes into the air and encompasses us all as we giggle, squeal, and dance in circles at the revelation of pink or blue.
Whoa, ye larger than life imagination! Whoa! I’ll be candid with you — It doesn’t happen that way (whomp, whomp). This was MUCH more of a DIY project than I had anticipated in order to get the desired confetti effect. This turned into an aerodynamics middle school science project all week leading up to our reveal. I probably held at least 15 trials with my prototype popper in the evenings when my husband. I just wanted a little wow factor! That’s not too much to ask, right? I made many different confetti mixes and tried many different launching methods in order to finally reach a semi-impressive confetti pop.
So there you have it! I hope this guide spares you from a week long of testing since I’ve already put in the time for you. If you’ve used confetti poppers or do so in the future, I want to hear from you! Leave me a comment on what you found to work the best or just about your experience in general.
It’s hard to capture a confetti reveal with still photography, so I would suggest someone video record on their phone. But, either way, you can feel all the feels that we did that day through these candids! It was a really fun day!
1, 2, 3! {PoP!}
It’s a boy!
There’s Maggie – attending via Facetime! Modern technology made it possible for all of our siblings who couldn’t come to us to still be a part of the event.
Hugs for everyone! Can you feel the love? I sure do, and I know our little guy will too! <3
xo, llc