Naming Day

[mischief79]

Neither DH or I are religious. I think I would find it a bit strange having DD baptised or christened (I don't even know the difference between the two), but I want to do something to celebrate her birth. We also want to have godparents (but obviously, not in the religious sense).
I've been thinking about a Naming Day. Who has done one? What really happens? Can you give me a run down?

Thanks for the ideas!

[MrsDribbleDrawers]

I had one for DD1, and we're planning one for DD2 atm. Basically, you work with the celebrant to have the ceremony the way you want it. We're using the same celebrant who married us, so she knows the type of thing we like... we're having a reading from Kahlil Gibran, just as we did for our wedding, and it's a very family focussed occasion for us - it can be whatever you want it to be, you don't even need a celebrant if you don't want one.

We've given an arrival time and a start time on the invites, and we're following the ceremony with a bbq lunch - we've also tied it to her 1st birthday, just as I did with DD1, just think it makes that first birthday very special.

HTH

[Frangimimi]

hi.We have given our dd and our ds both namegiving cermonies and planning one for our third now.Neither myself or dh are religous and we chose the salvation army to to ours each time.
We usually do the ceremony in a nice park and invite friends and relatives.We chose our godparents(also not in a religous sense).The minister says a few nice words, introduces the godparents, and welcomes the child to our world.
its not overly religous, but nice.Afterwards we go back to the salvo hall for afternoon tea with the gusets.

Me 34:wave:
DH 36:cool:
DD 9:flowerz:
DS 6:ecomcity:
DS 4months:yelclap: