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Writing in a christening or baptism card for a baby can be a little confusing if you’ve never done it before. They’re a baby so they can’t read right? So do you write the card to the parents then? Or do you address the card to the baby and write as though you were talking to the baby even though they won’t have a clue what you’ve written? I have wondered this question quite a few times before I had kids. But now since having kids the answer seems a bit clearer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a great idea to write the christening card to the baby especially if you are the godparent. The card will likely be kept for the child to read when they are older. For grandparents, aunties, uncles or family friends – just write to who you feel comfortable with – the best messages are written this way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people write to the parents and child together, this is a good idea too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end though there is no right or wrong answer in who to address the christening card to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Interesting Trend in Who People Write the Christening Card To<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I thought I’d do a little research by looking at all the baptism cards my kids got when they were baptised to see who people wrote the card to. Was it to us as parents or to our new baby? What I noticed was really interesting but when I thought about it it kinda made sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give you some background information – I have 3 children and they were all baptised when they were around 2-3 months old. We only invited family and godparents to the baptism of our children and they received between 6 to 10 cards each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I first looked through my youngest daughters baptism cards and noticed that they were all written direct to my daughter. It didn’t matter if the card said something like “Celebrating Your Baby’s Baptism” on the front, they still wrote direct to the baby. And to be honest I kinda like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, I looked through my son’s baptism cards – he’s the middle child. Again I noticed they were mostly written direct to my son, regardless of the title on the front of the card like “On Your Little Boy’s Christening Day”, which was directed more at the parents. Two cards were written to us as parents as well as to the baby and his older sister. I think this was mainly because the front of the card made it seem like it should be addressed to the parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I picked up the pile of cards for my eldest daughter who was our first born. I assumed I would see the same thing again, but I was surprised that most people addressed the card to my husband, myself and my daughter. One was addressed just to my daughter and a couple just to us as parents. These were the same people who wrote direct to our other children in their baptism cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did receive a couple cards from family friends which were all written to us as parents, which I thought was appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s also worth mentioning that our eldest child was the first child born in both of our families. She was the first grandchild for both our parents and the first time our siblings were aunties and uncles. The one person who wrote direct to our eldest daughter in her Christening card has a job as a teacher. So she’s used to talking to children, but I think for everyone else it probably felt more comfortable to write to us as parents than to the new baby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As our oldest child grew she could talk to her grandparents and aunties and uncles, so when our next child came it was more natural for them to write direct to the new baby. They’d had practice with our eldest daughter and they felt comfortable with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes sense!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think we write better and more personal messages when we’re comfortable with who we’re writing to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 Great Reasons to Write the Christening Card To The Baby<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are some great reasons you might want to write to the baby in the christening card:<\/p>\n\n\n\n