baptism plans?

lemen99

So we are the first of our family to have a baby, so I really haven't been to a baptism since my sister was baptized 14 years ago.

I'm sure we can do whatever we want, and probably everyone does it different, but I was wondering what your plans were.  

Who did you invite?  Is it necessary to send invitations?  

Did you have a party after?  Or cookout? or just cake?

I have no idea who would want to come.  I know parents/siblings/grandparents, but should I stop there?

I feel lost.

p.s. We scheduled Andrew's for August!

 

 

eclaires

We invited close friends and family.  And the friends were our friends and some of my parents' friends.

I should also clarify we invited way more of my family and friends (in fact, no friends of MH's or his family's) because they are Catholic and Jeff's family is not.  His immediate family was still invited, but not extended - it's just not something they would want to come to and we knew that.

We had a party at my mom and dad's house because we did the baptism in my hometown, since it was basically us and my in laws that had to travel to it instead of my entire family/friends.  Plus we wanted to have him baptised at the church we were married in, I was baptised in, etc.  We served lunch and cake.

We've been to a lot of baptisms in the past year because several of my friends have had kids.  It seems to depend a bit on whether both families are Catholic, friends that are Catholic, etc. at least in my immediate circle.  Also, my best friend is Jackson's godmother which made our invitation list a bit longer - I invited her family as well, whereas I probably wouldn't have otherwise.

eclaires

Oh and we did send out invitations.  3 of the 4 baptisms I've been to in the past year have sent out invites.

DomerJenC

Ugh, I have no idea what we're going to do.  If we do it at ND, we'll do the following:

Immediate family and close friends that live near ND (like Chicago)

Take everyone out to brunch afterwards

And I think we'll do invites.

If we do it down here in Atlanta, we'll just invite our parents, the gparents, and leave it at that.

NDwife07

Because our family and friends are spread out everywhere, we'll probably just invite the parents and grandparents. Depending on who we ask to be Godparents, we'll obviously invite them too. No invitations, likely.

We're trying to do it at ND and if that's the case, we'll do what Jen's doing and have a brunch or something.

FinallyMrsBMW

We just had DD's baptism today.  We are Methodist and still do infant baptisms.  We invited our grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and close friends for a party back at our house after the church service.  We had about 40-50 people come and it was wonderful!  We ended up calling everyone that we invited so we could talk to them about our plans and because the church recently moved buildings and everyone was confused about the location.  It worked out perfectly!  This was the first baptism I had been to in a long time.

fishy22

Many people do send invites, we did not.  We called to let people know.

We had people over here afterward for lunch- subway, veggies, fruit, cake.

Up to you what you are comfortable with in terms of how many to invite.  We invited our parents, siblings, godparents, and local relatives, but didn't invite lots of friends.  We had 15-20 in all.