OT...Catholic baptism

[tinan]

Ok...please bare with me. I have a question regarding who buys the baby's dress for the baptism. Do the parents? The grandparents? Or the Godparents? Please help me settle this debate.

Thanks!

 

[MickeyP]

Mommy does.

 

[nordkin]

In our family the parents do.

 

[Tinkerbell2002]

When DS was baptized (Catholic), my mom said that his godparents were suppose to by his gown (my sister was the godmother) but I ended up buying his suit because if it were up to my sister he would have had nothing to wear.

 

[CheapMom]

I have never heard of the gown being anyone's responsibilty other than the parents. If someone offered it as a gift that would be nice- but I don't beleive there is any such tradition or ettiquette that would dictate such a gift.

 

[BethR]

I think that it must depend on the tradition in your family. I know that when my DDs were born, I was told by my DH's aunt that it was the Godmother's responsibility to buy the communion dress. I had never heard this before, and since my DDs wore MY communion dress, that settled that.

 

[~Kathie]

I agree with Beth. I think every family has and makes their own tradition.

My son wore his father's baptismal gown that my MIL had handmade and 3 years later my daughter wore my grandfather's gown that was all victorian lace. As parents it was our choice of what they should wear.

 

[Disney1998]

For my son, his godparents offered to pay for it. My daughter wore mine. For my godson, he wore my son's.

 

[lbgraves]

I think that it is up to the parents what their child will wear.

 

[jeepgirl30]

I agree, its up to the families.

We used DH's for DDs because it looked more like a girls anyway! It was nice to have something handed down. For DS my SIL wanted to buy it since she was the Godmother.

We offered to buy for our neice when we were asked to be Godparents but they had wanted to use one they had handed down in the family.

 

[lclark0621]

I think every family is differnet. Our tradition is the Godmother buys all the baptism clothing & the Godfather buys the cross & necklace. The parents get to Ok or Veto the outfit & necklace if they dont like it though.

 

[megan4777]

I also agree that it is whatever your family tradition is .....when DD#1 was baptized she wore the dress that has been in my mother's family for generations. She wore it b/c of the family history.

Now that DD#2 is here, she's older than DD#1 was when she was baptized so we'll probably go out and buy her a dress.

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

DD wore a gown that my sister (her godmother) made. I made a gown for my niece (my goddaughter). My SIL (DS's godmother) bought DS's christening outfit. In our family, it's a tradition not only for the godmother to provide the outfit but to also dress the child on the day of baptism. When my sibs and I were baptized, the mothers didn't even go to the church, just the godparents!

 

[GOOFY D]

I do not know how strong the tradition is, but I have always heard that the godmother purchased the outfit.

 

[Teacher03]

My kids' godparents always bought the outfit, and we did the same for our godchildren.

 

[mrsmiller]

I am from Puerto Rico and in our tradition the Godparents get the child "ready" for The Baptism meaning dress, shoes anything the child needs, if the family will have a celebration(party) the godparents buy the cake and the favors but the family take care of the food and other expenses. Then again this is only a "tradition" is not a rule and set in stone. For my son's Baptism I made the outfit and the godparents took us out for dinner.
Linnette

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I would have--but step-grandma wanted to make one and we let her. So it was free for me .

 

[speedyf]

For my DS...we (the parents) bought his baptismal gown.

The godparents are responsible for giving him gifts for his birthday and Christmas for the rest of his life....

I think it's up to you and the traditions in your family....and whether you want to follow those traditions or not.

Speed

 

[belleandthebeast]

I think that it must depend on the tradition in your family. I know that when my DDs were born, I was told by my DH's aunt that it was the Godmother's responsibility to buy the communion dress. QUOTE]

Me too, I bought my GodDaughter's dress for her Christening.

Of course, I buy her extra presents for Christmas and her birthday.

 

[tinan]

Thank you! In our family it has always been the parents responsibility to handle the outfit, party, etc. If the grandparents wanted to help they did. I know that I bought both of my dd's baptism outfits. Since my youngest was much larger than my oldest, I had to buy a new one rather than use my oldest's gown. My neice is to be baptized next month and while I don't mind buying the outfit it was put in such a way that threw both my mother and I off. My brother's g/f's mother TOLD my mother that I am going to HAVE to buy the outfit because I am the Godmother. Since then, Mom and I picked out a gorgeous gown, socks, shoes, bib, blanket, bible, and even a white outfit to wear at the party. We were just wondering because we never did it that way. Then my mom called an aunt to ask her and she said "Oh yes, the Godmother always buys the outfit". Which I had to chuckle because her daughter is my daughter's Godmother and she didn't buy the outfit. Then I recalled that my aunt was my brother's Godmother and she didn't buy his either. So jokingly I told mom that she needs to tell my aunt that she owes us money then.