Baptism questions

BamBam510

1.  At what age do you usually get your baby baptised?

2.  Who do you invite?   Just immeadiate family?  Aunts/uncles etc?  I'm thinking his baptism, depending on the answer to #1, will be when a lot of family meets him for the first time.

3.  What kind of gathering do you have afterwards?  Would a bbq at our house be sufficient?   And can we invite people to the bbq afterwards who we are not inviting to the actual baptism since this most likely will be the first opportunity people have to meet him? (again depending on the answer to #1).

 

Thanks!

BFab11

A lot depends on your religion.  I won't be getting LO baptized; I feel that it's a personal decision that I can't make for him, so he can get baptized when he's older and makes the decision on his own.  

KRMac

1)  Our LO will be 4 months.  It's the only date that worked for our families.  DH and I were both baptized at 3 months though.  

2)  We're just inviting our parents, DH's grandparents and my grandma and our siblings.  I suspect that a few of our local friends might stop by, but the rest of our family is out of town and we can't host a ton of people all weekend.  If they were all local it would be a different story.

3)  We're just going out to eat at a casual restaurant afterwards, but I think a BBQ at your house would be lovely.  We live in a small townhouse though and I would stress over having that many people here, especially older folks like our grandparents that have a hard time with steps, etc.  I'd feel fine just coming to meet the baby afterwards and skipping the church, but I would let your guests decide.   

KRMac

Oh, and we are Catholic, FYI.

Mrs.Hagzz51306

1. Our son will be 10 wks old when he is baptised catholic

. 2. I have a BIG family and baptisms are always a big deal in my family so we will be inviting Our parents,grandparents,brothers and sisters my and dhs aunts and uncles and cousins  and a few very close friends

3.We are having and open house afterwards with pasta ,chicken, some kind of veggie and cake

and im not sure if would invite just for the party and not the baptism to me if i got just invited to the party i would feel like i wasnt invited to the baptism but the party and i have to bring a gift??? im not sure how happy and okay i would be with that

Smootchy

lo'd baptism was last week (3.5 months) it would've been sooner but due to family circumstances (brother being very ill) we waited untill he was strong enough to come. It was VERY last minute. Said he felt good on wednesday, called the church and got it set for saturday...

also because of my brother's illness, we didn't want a crazy big party. Well, I guess that was a good excuse anyway... I'm more of a close family type person. Never understood hubby's side when they rent out a whole resturant... I don't see these people for the holiday's, why do they want me at their child's baptism... Whatever, to each their own. We invited only our brother's (with wives and kids of course) and our parents. (my grandma too, she was the only grandparent around) that was 26 people. Big enough!

we had a pita plater, salad, pasta salad, veggie's, fruit, ect... cake and brownies.

Dr.Loretta

1. Unless there's a cultural/family tradition, it can be anytime.

2. It depends on your family. Some people have blowout baptisms and invite a ton of friends and family, others make them more intimate.

3. Again, it depends. Some people have a nice lunch out, some people just have cake and punch.

I would not invite people to the party but not the baptism, but that sounds odd to me.