What do people expect Christening?

clearance_risha

Hope you get this before your christening day. A cheap way to decorate is by using balloon weights with about 2 different coloured balloons or more it is so simple and effective and will be doing this myself. as i can prepare from home and put the arrangements on tables or the floor when i reach the hall.

Balloon weight 49p each (cheapest i found in card factory) variety of colours avaliable

Enjoy ur special day.

clearance_risha

a good idea to cut down the budget on your cake, if possible bake your own cake or ask someone, (like what i done, i'm so bad)

get a pic of baby and get it printed with a personal message.
Then just place it on the cake.I know its not everyone's cup of tea.
large picture £5.75, i used www.eatyourphoto.co.uk

sukysue

Asda does these cakes for about the ten quid mark just take in the photo and they will put it on there and then and itis quite a big cake too.

hev_2

Just want to say a big thank you to all that helped out with suggestions.

Especially want to thank about the tip for colouring books for the littlies. I got some cheap colouring books from Matalan, some cheap paper and crayons from The Works and they were as good as gold - you were a life saver Funnyfreckle.

I didn't bother with decorations, the cake was from Costco (which I really recommend at £10.99 for huge cake personalised - I couldn't bake it for that) and everyone was relaxed and happy. My darling son was the star of the show, and he was soooo good and looked sooo gorgeous.

Apart from that, the best bit was my SIL threw a tantrum and didn't come, so I had a really good day!

Must remember to provoke her before the next do....

melancholly

hev wrote: »

Apart from that, the best bit was my SIL threw a tantrum and didn't come, so I had a really good day!

Must remember to provoke her before the next do....

glad it went well - but i have to ask about the falling out!! sounds like a story worth hearing to me! (how nosey am i?!)

morganb

Don't laugh, but make sure your godparents know where the 'do' is afterwards. For DS1 Christening, his Godfather offered one of the Godmothers a lift and then both of them got lost and went AWOL for 2 hours, imagine how embarassed they were, so we took no chances for DS2 Christening and had posters and arrows up everywhere ... oops, sorry just read the first page, now realise that you have already had the Christening, glad it went well!

hev_2

melancholly - seeing as it's you...

SIL does like to take over. She likes to be the rock on whom everyone depends. Actually, I don't want to depend on her and don't (at this moment in time) need to depend on her. She treated my DH dreadfully when his mother was dying, had never spoken to me as if I was an adult in twenty years... you get the picture.

So, I leave it late to tell her the date of the Christening to try and stop her taking over and she is down to be godmother. Her response was a blanket - I can't make it. But you're not to change the date. And I still want to be a godmother.

She couldn't make it because her friends were visiting. So I said, bring them along the more the merrier. She didn't even ask them, she just said no flatly. I suspect that the church wasn't 'nice' enough for her. She's a bit of a 'Hyacinth' and I don't always know what to say to her.

In the end our overworked vicar had to hear her repeat the vows of a godmother one evening in the week before the Christening, and she was completely OTT about that as well. I got really hacked off trying to work everything round it.

People I told about this were astounded that she was so blanket against coming to visit. Her daughter then couldn't make it (of course) which was a shame. Poor kid couldn't meet my eye when I said it was a shame that her friends couldn't come to the Christening.

But it really was a lovely day in a lovely hall with great guests. I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much if she was there. So, all's well that ends well.

Quite honestly, I will try and wriggle out of inviting her in the future. I had shocking dermatitis on my hands which vanished when I realised she wouldn't be there.

hev_2

morganb wrote: »

Don't laugh, but make sure your godparents know where the 'do' is afterwards. For DS1 Christening, his Godfather offered one of the Godmothers a lift and then both of them got lost and went AWOL for 2 hours, imagine how embarassed they were, so we took no chances for DS2 Christening and had posters and arrows up everywhere ... oops, sorry just read the first page, now realise that you have already had the Christening, glad it went well!

If anything can go wrong...

I put the full address of both church and hall on the invite for satnav/streetmaps and some people still got lost.