Should You Send Baptism Invitations?
Will you be mailing out christening or baptism invitations? This is a momentous occasion and deserves to be announced in formal style to family and friends.
Christening or baptism invitations provide guests with all the details of this spiritual event making them an important part of your planning. Shopping online and having them printed by a professional printer will certainly save you time since you will only have to address them for mailing. Invitation websites usually have a nice selection of christening and baptism invitation designs available.
TIP – It’s usually more cost effective to include a few more invitations in your original order than to have to order more later. Additional baptism invitations can be used for extra guests not originally included in your count. Also, be sure to save at least one as a souvenir so it can be framed, placed in a memory album or added to your baby’s scrapbook.
Here are the details to include on your christening or baptism invitations.
· Baby’s Name
· Parents’ Names
· Date and Time of Baptism or Christening Ceremony
· Name and Address of Ceremony Location
· Time and Location of Reception (if separate from ceremony)
If you are planning a formal celebration and inviting quite a few guests, you might want to include some type of RSVP on the invitation to help in your seating and food planning. This can range from placing your phone number at the bottom of the invitation to actually including a separate response card for your guests to return to you. When ordering baptism invitations, some of the formal styles will have a matching response card available. If you include a response card, be sure to place a postage stamp on its accompanying envelope as a convenience to your guests since your mailing address will be printed on the return envelope.
Thank you cards or informal note cards are sometimes also available to match your invitations. Informal note cards will have your baby’s name printed on the front with the inside being blank for your handwritten thank you note.
This is the first step of your baby’s spiritual life that deserves to be celebrated with family and friends so you’ll want to formally announce all the details with special baptism or christening invitations. Remember to save one to cherish as a lasting keepsake for you and your baby.
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