The room has one job
Everyone at a baby shower wants a moment with the guest of honour. A room that spreads people into distant corners works against that. A room where she can be seen from anywhere, and where people naturally circulate past her, works with it.
This is why capacity alone is a poor guide. A space rated for sixty can be a worse baby shower venue than one rated for thirty, if the sixty-person room scatters your twenty-five guests across it.
Think about the grandmothers
Baby showers skew multi-generational more than almost any other gathering. That means seating for everyone, not just for most people. It means an entrance without a flight of stairs. It means a bathroom that is easy to find. These are unglamorous questions and they matter more than the colour scheme.
Morning or early afternoon
Later in pregnancy, energy is highest earlier in the day. A late-morning shower is kinder to the person it is for. It also means brunch food, which is cheaper, easier and more forgiving than a dinner menu.
Somewhere to put things
Baby showers generate more physical objects than any other kind of party — gifts, bags, a car seat somebody brought in. You need a gift table with real surface area, and somewhere to stage things so the room does not fill with clutter halfway through.
Ask who cleans up
At the end of a shower, someone is carrying gifts to a car and someone is washing dishes. If those are the same person, and that person is the host, the day ends badly. Ask what cleanup the venue handles.
Near Moberly, specifically
Most of the options within a short drive fall into three categories: a restaurant's back room, a community or church hall, or a private venue. The back room is easy but rarely feels like an occasion. The hall is affordable but usually needs a great deal of decorating to feel personal. A private space sits between them, and the question to ask is how much of the work it saves you.
If you are weighing options for a shower, tell us your date and guest count.