baby shower drama

[mrslefty]

Sort of.

So my BFF wants to throw my shower. In fact she already had it planned apparently, which I'm cool with.  My aunt apparently also wanted to throw me a shower and is hurt that I said BFF already had it handled. Honestly I wouldn't want a shower thrown by her anyways and my mom probably would have done it if my aunt was the only one who offered.
BFF lives in a studio apartment and cannot hold the shower at her house so she said she wants to do it at my house which is fine by me but my aunt is now throwing a fit.  She says it is not proper to have a shower at my house because then it looks like I'm throwing it...or something.  Is this really a problem or is my aunt still butt hurt that she isn't throwing my shower? 
Meanwhile I'm over here like..uh this is like Eleventybillion years away why are we worrying about it now? Which is why I don't plan parties. 

[picksthemusic]

Um, there is no etiquette about where your shower is located. If your home is large enough to accomodate your guests, then so be it. I think your aunt is just butthurt. Which is nice of her, but she needs to focus her energy elsewhere.

[jennlin]

your aunt is butthurt.

[georgeharrison]

That is stupid. Like picks said, if there's room, do it at your house. If there's not, you can use the clubhouse at my condo. I think there's like a $25 cleaning fee.

[shevacc]

Yup, what they said. Though I think the whole shower etiquette thing used to be a bigger deal in the past, so maybe that's where your aunt is coming from?

I wouldn't even care if you *were* throwing your own shower, other than it being a lot of work for a tired pregnant to do. But your BFF will be sending out the invites and collecting the RSVPs, I assume.

[dana86]

I agree with others, butt hurt aunt.

H's cousins had my shower for me but neither had a house so they had it at my house. The cleaning sucked but I figured it need to get done anyways so no biggy really.

[mrslefty]

BFF and my mom are planning to clean for me, obviously I plan to be tidy and leave little for them to do but I also don't feel bad letting them vacuum my house
I kinda thought my aunt was being....herself. Thank you for confirming my suspicions. She has this need to be The Most Important Person and social planner but she is really a boring person (I don't say that lightly) and her likes are vastly different than mine. She is also upset that we won't do the candy bar in a diaper game or the guess mrslefty 's circumference game. (Again this is months away why are we worrying?)
BabyA that's a nice offer but, based on the surprise demo done on my kitchen today I'll have space