Baptism

Did you/will you get the information from your church before baby is born or wait until after? I like to plan and was thinking of calling the church now, but I didn't know if that was too soon. Just wanted to get any information and see what dates they have it, etc.


Also, Sept/Oct girls: when are you planning on having the baptism?

I wish I could do a backyard party after, but I figure I'll have it when she is around 3 months, so it will be too cold outside. 3 months will be in December, and I dont know if that's too crazy of a time with Christmas!

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I am due September 1st and I plan on doing the christening when is 2.5 - 3 months. So it will definitely be cold outside. I don't know when we are supposed to contact the church...good question. I think we are going to try to keep our party on the smaller side.

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as a btdt mom - i would contact the church now - they usually only give the babtism class once a month and i think it would beeasier to attend the class prior to the baby being born - my parents watched my son while my dh and i attended the class

also most churched won't let you have the date officially until you take the class

i was a sept mom and my son was babtized at 2 months exactly -the sunday before thanksgiving. I was trying to avoid the holidays - we had the party at my parents country club

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I plan on going to see the Priest over the summer and talking with him. I want to see how it works in our church, can we have a private christening etc.

I am due Oct 3rd but want to wait until March/April bc I would like the weather to be nice.

We are also trying to decide whether we are going to have a big blow out or a more simple christening. Simple would be about 60 pple ANYWAY

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Posted by DiamondGirl

I plan on going to see the Priest over the summer and talking with him. I want to see how it works in our church, can we have a private christening etc.

I am due Oct 3rd but want to wait until March/April bc I would like the weather to be nice.

We are also trying to decide whether we are going to have a big blow out or a more simple christening. Simple would be about 60 pple ANYWAY

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I'm due in July and in May I already spoke to our priest about the baptism and scheduled a date. I wanted to book a party and the place seemed to be filling up quickly, so I took care of it before the baby was born. Also, I think it was good because we plan on taking the baptism class before the baby arrives.

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Our church doesn't book anything until after the baby is born. It's so frustrating.

We're hoping to do it when the baby will be 9-11 weeks old.

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September here! I would like to have it no later than end of Oct beginning of November. We have a lot of out of town family and I am worried about the weather!

I wanna call the church but I feel like its still early!!!!!

What r u girls gonna do????

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I called as well the woman who I spoke to said a Deacon or a Priest would call me and set something up. She also said we would have to take a class on a Monday night so it's good that we called early. She said a lot of people like to take the class before the baby comes.

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I'm due in October and plan on calling next week. I'd love to have an outdoor party, but don't want to wait till the craziness of May/June. I'm pretty sure they won't due baptisms during Advent or Lent so we are looking at early Feb (after the superbowl) or late April and doing it in a restaurant.

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Im due sept and we decided to do a big combined event. Baby's christening/first birthday will be on the same day. I know its def not the norm but we have many oot'ers and I had a combined party as well as a baby

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Planned mine with my church after DS was born, they only needed a couple of weeks notice. They did them every 1,2,3rd Sunday of the month...so they told me whenever I wanted to, they were ready.

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My church requests we go 3 months before the baby is born so we already when and penciled in our names for October. I prefer to have it when the baby is 3 months old. I think every church is different though.

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a friend of mine booked hers a few months ago and she just had the baby last week. She said normally the church wont let you do this.

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I'm glad you posted this because I have to start looking into this myself. I am not even sure which church we want to register in yet

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probably have it around christmas- my husband's sister lives in OR and she will probably be the godmother... it will be easier for her to be there if it's during the holidays. if not, i wouldn't mind putting it off until the spring!

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We are due in the beginning of August & we want to Baptise baby beginning of Nov.

Message edited 6/15/2011 7:40:54 PM.