We did our main one sort of last minute and then a few subsequent ones.
At about 10 weeks I ordered an at-home gender mail-in testing kit. Originally I just wanted to find out for planning. I sent out the results and made the results option transparent to me. But with the beginning of covid kicking in I started to think it might be a nice thing for just me and my husband to do a reveal with each other. And it grew a little from there to include our family. Both of our parents live in different states. So I called around to the local bakeries to them and us and found ones still open during covid.
I had to do a little ninja work to hide the results from my screen and forward the email to each bakery.
We planned a virtual chat and had each of our parents pick up the gender reveal cupcakes and we picked up ours. We cued up the video call with the 8 of us and all cut / bit into our cupcakes at the same time.
It was a really nice moment and I'm so glad we did it intimately as a family.
It was so nice that I planned a few more video reveals with friends. And it was great to see their reactions. For the friends I sent homemade peanut butter cups with pink centers. (Had to figure out dying peanut butter! Ultimately mixed it with bright pink frosting.)
Normally I might not be into this kind of thing but it was ultimately a nice event, especially during these strange times. I wouldn't have wanted to find out among acquaintances or at a big party but if you find out with people close to you it's a nice shared moment.