Christening - Who to Invite?

[Mel's Belle]

We are facing a dilemma with DD's Christening - who to invite... If we invite family then our numbers are close to 100 ppl (including kids) :eek: which seems like such a big event for a Christening (we didn't even have that many at our wedding).

I have suggested to DH that we don't invite family as he won't/can't invite his aunties and uncles without having to invite all the cousins as well - they will chuck the s*#ts if we do that (we did for the wedding and there were a few protests).

What did you do to keep the numbers down? We want to have a max of 50 people including kids...

[poshBecks]

For Ella's dedication we are only inviting our imediate family. As in my parent & brother. Dan's parent & siblings & our closest friends. Thats all should be about 30 all up.... hope that helps. :)

[ThomasMum]

This is what we did with ours, we've 3 categories/list:


A list of guests from your side
A list of guests from your DH/partner side
The Godparents


I think 50 is BIG or HUGE enough for Christening. So try to stick to 50

Good luck! :D

[Barry]

For our bubba's christening we've invited immediate family from my side, immediate family & great grand parents from my wifes side with some of her cousins & great grand parents as well as some friends, just keeping it a small friendly occasion.

[razzle]

Invite everyone who wants to come to the church, and then immediate family (parents & siblings) for the gathering afterwards.

[MissSparkle]

We've actually invited about 180 to ANgelos Christening at the church and around 200 to the reception as it will will combined with our engagment party. If I were organising it it wouldve been much smaller but Ive left it to the Greek family and to the its a big deal. U invite everyone!

I say just invite the people clostest to u and ur child.

[Mumma_al]

Invite who ever you like. its your day to celebrate your baby. not keep everyone happy day. Invite the people who matter most, people who will be there for you and the baby.

Our DD's naming is in a month and we have invited immediate family, grand parents great grand parents , aunts and uncles and a select group of cousins who are close, and only a few close friends.:smiliedance:

[O&GMUM]

We had our christening last week and like you had about 65 people. Everyone came back to ours after.
There where far too many people, DH and I where stressed out, we didnt enjoy it. There was just no way around it. also felt really guilty because I didnt get a chance to talk to everyone as the babies had a bad cold and I spent alot of time sorting them out.
Got alot of nice pressies though!

[lil monkey]

Hey Mel,

We are the same - in fact that's why we haven't had a christening yet!

When we do have it, I think we will just have immediate/close family and the godparents - we worked out there would end up being around 100 people otherwise!!!

We only want to have around 20 people! Then poses the problem of who to have as Godparents...........:eek:

[anna&oli]

Mel,

I am in the process of organising a christening for Oliver. At the moment the list is up to 70 and i'm sure i've forgotten some ( and that's not including kids).

We've had the same prob with family. a lot doesn't talk to each other, some are seperated and not talking -( Won't want to be in the same room). Anyway we came to the conclusion that alot of extended family wont show, but at least they were invited!!!

Can't wait for the day though. there are so many people who still haven't seen our little man, or who havent seen him since birth. it will be a big day but luckily i hve a fabulous partner, and mum and dad who are organising lots of things for me.


I do agree with young_mum_steph. Invite those that are closest to you and your bub. You want to look back on the photos in years to come and have your bub know who was who at their big day.

Anna

[SuperWoman]

We are having our DS christening in June and decided to keep it to a limit of 50. Honestly, Im only inviting the people who have made an effort to come and see my son since he was born. So many family members dont even know what he looks like and I refuse to invite them. So its only immediate family on both sides and my best friend(who is one of his godmothers) and her family!
I want the people who love my son and us there only!:smiliedance: