Baby Shower Restaurant Invitations: Menu, Allergies, Time

You book the table for 22 at the restaurant by the market. Then the messages start: is there a vegetarian main, does the set menu cover the cake, can we stay past five. You answer in the group chat, one by one, and the same question comes back the next morning from someone who didn't scroll up.

None of that is really about the design. It's about what you settled with the restaurant before you sent anything: the menu, the allergies and the time your table ends. Restaurant baby shower invitations exist to carry those three things, so you stop repeating yourself.

Restaurant baby shower invitations: the menu comes first

Call the restaurant before you open the editor. Ask for the set menu in writing, with the price per head and what the drinks include: water only, soft drinks, or a glass of something. If the only option is one menu at 24 EUR a head, that number decides more about your invitation than the colour you liked.

• Ask for the set menu in writing: price per head, what the drinks cover, and whether the cake is included.
• Keep it to two options, adult and child, and write what's in each one: starter, main, cake, drink.
• Ask how many guests fit at one table. If it's eight and you're 22, you're booking three tables, and the invitation can say so.
• Ask whether a second seating comes in after you, and at what time they want the table back.

Ask about allergies, don't assume them

Don't write 'allergy-friendly menu' unless the kitchen has used those exact words. Write 'adapted menu, tell us before 3 May' and add a phone number. Then ask each guest directly, by message or call. In a group of 30 people, 'I can't eat gluten' gets buried between a sticker and a congratulations.

The day before, hand the restaurant a written list: one gluten-free, two dairy-free, no shellfish. Keep the simple answers on the invitation itself: who's coming, their full name, and how many adults and children are coming with them. Anything that needs explaining belongs on the phone, not in a form.

The invitation is not decoration sitting on top of the plan. It's where the menu, the allergies and the last call are written down.

Two times in writing: arrival and last call

Put three moments on the invitation: 12:30 arrival, 1pm first course, 4pm cake and goodbye. If the restaurant runs two seatings, that 4pm handover is their rule, not rudeness, so give it the same size as the date. And when the menu or the time changes, a digital invitation takes the change without a single resend: you edit, the link stays the same, and whoever opens it reads the current version. If a few people want paper to keep, print those few and send the link to everyone else.