3rd Trimester

If you are christening/baptizing LO...

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 think it just depends on your own situation.  We are baptizing our son, but not here, as all our family lives in the Midwest, so we'll do it there when he's about 6 mo old.  Thus, we're doing a Meet 'n Greet/Sip 'n See here when he's born (or a couple weeks old), mainly because I didn't have a shower here.  If I also had a shower, I doubt I would do it.  If I was baptizing out here though, I would only invite immediate family and any ultra-close/like-family friends.  It's up to you though.  Good luck.
  • 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.  

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  • imageCosmoMurphy:

    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.

  • i have no idea how we handling the baptism. i really dont want a huge thing mainly cus i have no idea where we will have it as we live in an apt. we may do aunts and uncles only. but even that could get huge as mil is one of ten. ugh.
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • I think we're going to invite family and close friends to the baptism and then invite a more extended group to the party.
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  • I've been to ones where people sent out invitations and invited all the friends and family and had a huge bash afterward. We will just invite family and maybe a handful of extremely close friends, and I might have some light brunch at our house afterward. It depends on what you want to do.
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