who is invited? I was thinking of doing a Meet the Baby when the weather warms up, but then remembered we're going to have her christened, which would be about the same time. Do you normally invite just immediate family, or close family & friends? Would you still have a Meet the Baby for everyone else? There hasn't been a LO in either family for over 10 years and I don't remember what SIL did back then. Thanks.
Re: If you are christening/baptizing LO...
I feel like not everyone will want to go to a christening which involves sitting through a service, and then a christening ceremony. I would only invite close family - grandparents, and Godparents (if your religion requires it), and have a separate Meet the Baby party.
You could have the Meet the Baby party as the reception for the christening, without inviting everyone to the christening. It would just be a big celebration.
Good point about sitting through the service. I like your suggestion. I think it would be easier to do it all in one day rather than two separate events. I would just have to figure out timing when it comes up. Thanks.
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We invited close family, godparents, and close friends of the same religion that live in the area and had a little reception at our house afterwards.
Yeah you may want to invite just people you think would want to sit through a christening to the actual event and everyone to the reception afterwards.
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We're having both a welcome party for the baby and a baptism. The welcome party will be beginning of April and the baptism will probably be beginning of May or something. The baptism will be close family and friends but there are a lot of us. They're separate entities and for different reasons. Plus, I like parties.
For DS's actual baptism, we just invited immediate family to the service. For the party, we invited everyone! About 80 people. My family goes all out for baptisms. We are doing the same for DD.
We've decided to do it a bit differently. Both my DH and I were raised Catholic, but we both have parted ways with the church. So, we chose to be married by an Episcopalian priest at a restaurant when we got married, and he was wonderful. When we found out that we were expecting, I contacted the same priest to see if he would baptize our boys in our home, because I didn't want to rush to join a parish somewhere just to have a baptism, and I wanted it to be something intimate. He was thrilled, as are we.
It's only going to be immediate family, and then we'll have a family party later on in the month for the rest of our clans to meet the boys.