How else can i make it special??

[Butterfly Child]

Im trying to organise a christening/naming day ceremony for my daughter grace, im hiring a hall/function room and was wondering if you can have someone come to the venue on the day and do the actual christening ceremony there.?? and if so how do i go about to doing that?

i have a few ideas to incorporate into the day im going to make a slideshow of photos of my bubba girl and have martina mcbrides song "?n my daughters eyes" playing its such a beautiful song. But i wa wondering about poems and versus i could say and other family members such as granparents ect. anyone have any ideas or suggetions???

Also any other ideas on how to make the day trully special please help me out??
let me no of your experiences and tips ect...??
thank you

[Tinks]

Yes, you can hire a celebrant who will come to any venue you want them to.

I love the slide show idea. WIll have a think about poems etc and get back to you.

[Kazbah]

You could incorporate some kind of blessing or moment where all guests come and welcome her to their community?

And maybe give guests a gift, a flower or photograph to remember?

[Butterfly Child]

You could incorporate some kind of blessing or moment where all guests come and welcome her to their community?

And maybe give guests a gift, a flower or photograph to remember?

Oh Wow thank you so much thats such a great idea i think i might do the photo thing for sure i was also maby thinking of making a scrapbook like thing and putting photos of the family n friends who r coming with grace and have them sign and write a blessing in there for her so when shes older she can look back and havie something special to keep.
thanks so much for ur ideas

[Lolli]

Hi

Do a Yellow Pages search for celebrants in your area. It's round about$300- $500 for a christening, i think. They'll often have ideas for poems and other things to include the entire family (at one I went to recently, the family members realeased different colored balloons for different things they wished for the baby's life- it was lovely).

Most celebrants will be happy to incorporate your music into the ceremony, and good ones bring their own sound equip and cd player.

HTH

[BrightSparkles]

We had a naming day for DD.
I wrote the whole ceremony and had a really good friend who is a public speakers officate the ceremony (of course you can have a celebrant though)
Each god parent sprinkled fairy dust on DDs head as they made a wish for her as she grows up, we had a reading too (when i get home from work i'll post it on here for you) then at the end we had helium balloons. Everyone took a balloon, kissed DD on the head, made a wish and released the balloon all while we had butterfly kisses playing in the background..it was so beautiful i have a tear in my eye thinking about.

[Butterfly Child]

Oh that sounds beautiful thank you so much that would b gr8