how to announce Godparents

[Karenfla36]

We chose the Godparents for our baby and am wondering on when and how to announce who we chose??

We did ask them and they said yes. I know my one brother may be upset but I cannot be worried about that since he is sooo sensitive and blows us off at the drop of a hat

Thanks!!

 

[October2013]

I think I'm going to announce my godparent (just one person) at my baby shower. Although I'm a little iffy about this because, even though I'm not trying to keep it secret, I don't want anyone to feel offended. Especially my mom...

I'm also trying to think of a small gift to provide to the godparent. Any ideas?

 

[Dream.dream]

Honestly when I was going to be a god mother it was announce to me privately when she was pregnant and they didn't tell anyone else until closer to the baptism ,

I think it's like the announcing names . There's goin to be people who are chuffed about it no matter what so go with what you what and you can always tell the other person they may be for the next child?

 

[October2013]

Come to think of it, I know nothing about this..
Am I supposed to baptize my baby with her godparent? I'm not religious, neither is my chosen godparent. And I wasn't planning to baptize.
I mainly just decided to have a godparent for my daughter just in case anything happened to me or her father, she wouldn't go into foster care or something.

 

[Glitter_berry]

If you don't want to baptise could you just have have "naming day" celebration, October?

I don't know anything about this either. My two best friends that I would have chosen as god parents my DD calls them Aunty Shannon and Aunty Nay. it's sweet in its own way.

I think who gets legal custody of your child if something was to happen goes according to what your will says. ( I think)

 

[Dream.dream]

Come to think of it, I know nothing about this..
Am I supposed to baptize my baby with her godparent? I'm not religious, neither is my chosen godparent. And I wasn't planning to baptize.
I mainly just decided to have a godparent for my daughter just in case anything happened to me or her father, she wouldn't go into foster care or something.

Unless you have a will statin this god parents isn't a legal thing it's symbolic and more honorary

All parents really should have a will drawn up anyways statig who gets your child and you should have at least 2 back ups just invade the first is unable to take the child .

 

[fairsinger]

Come to think of it, I know nothing about this..
Am I supposed to baptize my baby with her godparent? I'm not religious, neither is my chosen godparent. And I wasn't planning to baptize.
I mainly just decided to have a godparent for my daughter just in case anything happened to me or her father, she wouldn't go into foster care or something.

Unless you have a will statin this god parents isn't a legal thing it's symbolic and more honorary

All parents really should have a will drawn up anyways statig who gets your child and you should have at least 2 back ups just invade the first is unable to take the child .

Good advice! If you want to name legal guardians in the event of your death, you definitely need to put this in a will (at least in the US). We chose godparents for our children as part of their religious upbringing/baptism, but we have a will that designates specific people to have custody of our children if we die.

Back to the original question: I didn't ask them to be godparents until after the baby was born, and we didn't really "announce" to others, everyone just discovered who they were when we started making baptism plans. I think we asked the godparents a few weeks after the baby was born each time, and then we baptized a few months later.

 

[HappyBump25]

We never announced for our DS and we won't really for DD either. I mean after the godparents accepted, we told people if asked, but we didn't make a big deal about it. Closer to the baptism, more people would ask, but word travels fast in my family.

Edit: Was just thinking, I actually guess I announced without actually announcing. Where I am from, it is custom for the godmother to sit next to you at your baby shower and take notes on who gave what at the shower. You don't typically say "hi everyone this is ______, she's the godmother." But, people tend to assume that when they see who is sitting next to you with a notebook at the shower.

 

[cherrylips100]

If you aren't religious or want the baby to decide his/her own religion, then you could have a naming day. I think this generally consists of 'mentors' as opposed to godparents but you can still have speeches, poems etc whatever you wanted. Legally speaking though, you would have to draw up a will with your solicitor concerning custody, especially if he/she is not immediate family.

 

[Louise88]

I chose my godparents at the beginning of my pregnancy, my 2 best friends. I didn't announce them people just found out on the day my mum was upset I never asked my sister but my sister is autistic so I didn't feel comfortable having her as one. Unfortunately 1 of those friends decided to dump me just after the christening as I'm no longer fun now that I'm a mum so I wish I'd waited until after my dd was born before choosing godparents as I think that 1 friend only stuck around to be made godparent if I hadn't asked her to begin with she would have dumped me well before and I wouldn't have made her one.

 

[Tesa]

No idea how to announce this - we caused ww3 with our choice last time around and I have a feeling we are going to do the same again this time SIGH Its bad when you actually wish you could run away and do it in secret isnt it? I cant imagine ever giving anyone grief for their choice of godparents (even if I really wanted them to pick me) but apparently others dont have the same self control!