Baptism Save The Date?

EMLYNNLERETTE · June 2013

Is it weird to send a save the date for a baptism? Would you side eye that? Our families take baptism seriously and it is something many members are willing to travel for. Since we are so far away from family I want to let them know well in advance. I figured a save the date would be something they could keep as a reminder as opposed to calling all of the people we plan to invite. I kind of want to avoid a million lengthy conversations about travel plans. We plan to baptize October 27th, when would you think I should send the save the dates out?

ravenclaw1 · June 2013

I don't think it's weird to do. I'd say maybe 8 weeks before? How far are people going to be traveling? That would possibly change my mind.

revlaurawittman · June 2013

I think baptism save the dates are great. As a pastor I receive a lot of them and we also sent them out for our son's baptism. I would go ahead and let people know and maybe send them out as soon as the baby is born. It's never really too early for a save the date since the point is to let people know well in advance. Since our family is full of preachers we have to send ours out really early to make sure everyone can be there.

Pockety · June 2013

I'd probably send an email or call people who really have to travel far, and need to buy airline tickets, now. But I wouldn't send anything on paper or official until the baby is actually born.

Not exactly the same, but I've had my cousin's son's Bar Mitzvah on my calendar for over a year, and have my plane tickets already, and its not until next January. I'm sure the save the date will go out a few months in advance, and then the invite, but by then plane tickets will be much more expensive! So they let us know the date, informally, as soon as they knew it.

EMLYNNLERETTE · June 2013

ravenclaw1:
I don't think it's weird to do. I'd say maybe 8 weeks before? How far are people going to be traveling? That would possibly change my mind.

Our families are in Wisconsin and Michigan and we are in Texas. So I'm pretty much assuming that anyone attending will fly. That's essentially why I am wanting to do them early. I don't want anyone to get upset that they didn't have enough time to prepare for the trip.

jeb2013 · June 2013

Don't think it's weird. But if its not that many people, maybe you can email or call instead. I don't think it's weird but also never heard if doing that. Unless you are having a baptism like a wedding style with a ton of people.

EMLYNNLERETTE · June 2013

jeb2013:
Don't think it's weird. But if its not that many people, maybe you can email or call instead. I don't think it's weird but also never heard if doing that. Unless you are having a baptism like a wedding style with a ton of people.

Oh no. No way am I throwing a party like that! It will just be the service and a luncheon after. When I said my family is big on them, it isn't for the sake of having a bash, but more for witnessing and supporting. I never thought that some of DH's family would be wanting to come for it but MIL told me they had been asking so they could make arrangements. I think it's awesome that they feel compelled to come! It also gives them a chance to meet the baby.

Mrsdrev929 · June 2013

Save the dates are usually sent out 4 to 6 months before an event. So maybe do them soon since it is a big deal in your family.

Mrs.AllyH · June 2013

Ours is booked for Dec 22nd so that we can do it in our hometown instead of 12 hours away. I plan on sending Save the Dates as part of her birth announcements (only to those we're inviting though)

SweetPeaK26 · June 2013

While I see no issue with doing it, you also never know what might happen. Baptism is huge in our family too, something people travel for, and we tend to have baptism within 2 to 3 weeks of delivery. For me, it would w hard to plan ahead! Dd1 spent a week in the NICU, So she was 3.5 weeks old, but had it not been for the NICU stay, we would have done it at 2.5 weeks. Dd2 came 2 weeks early, and was baptized at 10 days old.

I guess since we like to do the baptism right away, we cause ourselves some lack of nailing down a date. If you plan further out, and have no complications, I'd guess everything will be ok!

LnR70707 · June 2013

Any particular reason you are baptizing so early? Save the Dates are normally sent out a few months before an actual invitation...so probably about now, but I would find it strange if I received one before the baby was born.

RunningGal900 · June 2013

I would personally just send an email so people know and save the money for the invitations. I sent one out to the grandparents and Godparents since I knew they had to be there.

EMLYNNLERETTE · June 2013

LR70707:
Any particular reason you are baptizing so early?nbsp; Save the Dates are normally sent out a few months before an actual invitation...so probably about now, but I would find it strange if I received one before the baby was born.

We baptize early because I feel most comfortable with that. I feel very strongly about baptism. My neice passed away when she was 12 weeks old with no warning, exactly one month after she was baptized. I have held onto her baptism so fiercely, I am her Godmother, it is the single most important event that happened in her short life. IMO it is the most important thing in anyone's life. If something were to happen to my child before I did this, I would have a hard time with it. It may not sound rational, but I feel strongly this way. If we were to have complications with birth or anything else, these plans would be thrown out the window. I would baptize my child myself if it were the only option... If you know what I mean. I don't think any person in either of our families would blame us if something were to happen to baby since we sent out save the dates early if that is what you meant?

LnR70707 · June 2013

EMLYNNLERETTE:
LR70707:
Any particular reason you are baptizing so early?nbsp; Save the Dates are normally sent out a few months before an actual invitation...so probably about now, but I would find it strange if I received one before the baby was born.
We baptize early because I feel most comfortable with that. I feel very strongly about baptism. My neice passed away when she was 12 weeks old with no warning, exactly one month after she was baptized. I have held onto her baptism so fiercely, I am her Godmother, it is the single most important event that happened in her short life. IMO it is the most important thing in anyone's life. If something were to happen to my child before I did this, I would have a hard time with it. It may not sound rational, but I feel strongly this way. If we were to have complications with birth or anything else, these plans would be thrown out the window. I would baptize my child myself if it were the only option... If you know what I mean. I don't think any person in either of our families would blame us if something were to happen to baby since we sent out save the dates early if that is what you meant?

No, no...of course I don't think anyone would blame you, and your reasoning makes perfect sense...I was just curious. There is part of me that says "what if" though and if something did go wrong and it needed to be changed there would be a lot of scrambling to change travel plans, etc. But I guess the same could be said for any big life event.

brittmata · June 2013

I don't think it's weird at all. One of my best friends just sent out her son's save the date for his baptism. I think that for some families baptisms are a pretty big thing so I think it's justified especially since you have family out of town.

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