Chapter ten
Let the adventures begin
A little plant stake at each table opens these pages on your phone. Between supper and dessert, the evening lives here:
The guest book — a selfie and a line
Before dessert, sign the book: one photo under the string lights and a note in a book for Baby. Entries appear below as the evening goes.
signed — see you in the album
"The greenhouse at golden hour — little one, your people throw a beautiful party."Aunt Susan · 8:42 pm
"Claimed Where the Wild Things Are. Prepare to roar, kid."Ruth & Ellen · 8:15 pm
Advice for the new mama
Leave Abby a note of hard-won wisdom — and second another guest's advice in the comments.
"Sleep when the baby sleeps" is a lovely lie. Sleep whenever you possibly can, wherever you land.
Read to him even when he's too little to care. Especially then — he's learning your voice.
Beau or Abby?
Locked until game time. When the host gives the word — and the password — answer on your phone. The room's running totals appear under each question before the truth comes out.
Locked until game time
for this mockup, the password is "fireflies"
not yet — wait for the host
Who was the bigger baby?
Who will handle the 2 a.m. feedings?
Who cried first at the ultrasound?
The group album — live on the big screen
One shared album, everyone's eyes. Add photos from your phone all evening — each one lands in the album below and floats onto the screen by the dessert table moments later. It starts tonight, and it becomes the family's first album.
Hosts: open that link on the TV or projector by the dessert table — it loops the album all evening, new photos included.
And all evening long
A page for his story — write Baby Boy White one page for the printed book he'll grow up reading. The recording nook — twenty seconds of your voice, saved for him.
Seconded. Twice.— Ruth