Hi all,

DP is catholic - baptised & confirmed but not practicing and I've been brought up baptist, but not baptised. We both believe in our faiths. We have decided to get DS baptised catholic as that is tradition in DP's family and it isn't so much of an issue for me as I believe they are all branches of Christianity ultimately (I know they have their differences and no offence is intended!) Also, re god parents...I have read that it is customary to have 2x god fathers and 1x god mother for a boy and 2x god mothers and 1x god father for a girl. Thing is, there are 2 good girl friends of mine I'd like as god mothers and we don't have a second person we'd ask as a god father (so complete opposite of the customs for a boy).

I have no real idea about the customs, where to start and what the criteria is.

So a few questions:

Will it be a problem that I am not catholic?
Will our preferred god parent arrangement be a problem? Do all the god parents have to be confirmed catholics? 2 of our chosen are but 1 is Greek orthodox...
Will it be a problem that DP and I aren't married?
Can we choose whether the ceremony is held during mass or afterwards? And if afterwards, is it customary to attend mass beforehand?
What is the go with donations? Is this the usual practice and how much is appropriate and how do you give it?
Is it normal to be "interviewed" by the priest prior to booking? What are appropriate reasons to want to have your children baptised?

Sorry about all the questions! I just don't want to make contact with the church sounding foolish and ignorant as I don't want to offend or sound as though we're doing it for the "wrong" reasons. I would really appreciate your replies and how you went about it