When to do naming ceremony

[nickosmoo]

Hello

Just wondering if most people hold their naming ceremony on their bubs first birthday or just anytime within the first year? Also has anyone got any celebrants they can recommend for this - we want to have input into the ceremony wording - if you live in Brisbane and can recommend anyone can you please PM me?

Thanks

Kris

[H&B'sMum]

Hi Kris,
We just had Harry's naming ceremony last week (see thread in this section). We had a combined Naming and 1st birthday party. We had a celebrant do the ceremony and we were able to include anything we wanted. I had the Godparent read a poem and each of the Grandmothers read a reading they each found and thought appropriate for Harry. The celebrant even asked our friends watching if they agree to take a special interest in Harry's life.
We were given a copy of the service and each of the God parents, Grandparents and us got certificates.
Shop around though for Celebrants cause I rang two others before I found mine and they won't meet with us beforehand to go through the service, nor would they let us include our readings or poems we wanted. The celebrant we choose met with us beforehand and showed us the service he uses and let us take it home, go through it and change whatever we wanted.
I would totally recommend a naming ceremony, it was relaxed, casual and very involving for the family. It was excately what we wanted to welcome Harry into our community of friends.
PM me if you wanted to find out more from me.

[Lee75]

For those unfamiliar with naming ceremonies it is a welcome a parent gives to their child, and the ceremony can be held at any time or place. It can be instead of, or in addition to a church christening, and the ceremony can be as casual or formal as the parents wish.

Normally the ceremony is held within the baby's first 12 months, but many families do celebrate a naming ceremony with the first birthday.

Upon booking your celebrant (look under celebrants naming and/or funeral in the yellow pages) most will require a non refundable deposit to hold the date. This usually happens when you meet with your celebrant.

The celebrant should give you some ceremonies to view (take home) and a selection of readings. From there you work with your celebrant to produce an individual ceremony. You can use ceremonies as is, interchange between the sample ceremonies or rewrite something you like better. (You can have as much or as little imput as you like). The ceremony can include almost anything from butterfly/balloon releases, to candles, magic dust, original poetry written by the parents or musical performances of a special song directed to the child.

Ask you celebrant if they professionally print and bind your ceremony and if the honoured child (and their Godparents) receive a certificate to mark the day and event. You should.

You will find the prices for a naming ceremony vary, however you really do get what you pay for.

I wish families all the best in finding their perfect celebrant and celebrating their child's special day.

Regards,

Leanne

Civil Celebrant and Justice of the Peace.

[veronica]

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[bubhub]

Hi Leanne

Thanks for editing your message. Whilst we don't usually object to services like celebrants providing us with information, if we didn't have the 'no promotion' rule, the forum would just end with hundreds of posts about pyramid schemes etc - believe me, I have to remove those that get through!

So we do appreciate you taking the time to remove those details from your post.

With kind regards
Hilary