How many Godparents does you child/children have?

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Just that, really how many?

Did you go for the traditional 3, or more? Starting to think ahead to DD's christening!

I am grumpy when it comes to godparents. Someone will always be miffed they weren't asked.

In reality my best friend should have been asked and my younger brother. Hey ho.

Mine had 3 however due to a huge family fallout they only see my sister who is God mother to both of them.

DD1, My DB & SiL and DH’s DSis. My SiL’s were my bridesmaids too).

DD2, BiL & his wife and DSis again - she got double duty

Our DD has 4 - two Godfathers and two Godmothers

Mine have the traditional 3. 2 of my best friends and one of husbands best friends (each)

Each of my 3 children have 3 Godparents. All of the Godparents had to be baptised and confirmed themselves in order to stand as Godparent so to be honest this narrowed our choices down, as I would have potentially had more. We are CofE but our church is pretty traditional.

We chose to have friends rather than family as Godparents as family are already 'special' to our children.

I am also both a CofE Godparent and a Catholic Godparent and was one of 3 chosen each time so I think that 3 is the traditional number :-)

2 godparents are more normal at the Church of Scotland I attend. I am one of 3 godparents to my god daughter whose parents attend the Episcopalian church. I think it’s more important to choose godparents who will keep in touch with the kid then worry about numbers.

I am Catholic, so had to find at least one Catholic to be godparent to each of my DC. That was hard. I don't know any other Catholics apart from my Dad and my little sister, so they ended up with 2 each.
DC1 has my sister and DH's sister. My sister was a teenager at the time so I thought she might be too young but not according to the priest. I also chose DH's sister, because I wanted DH's family to be involved too. DH is atheist and his family are not really religious either.

DC2 has a couple who are friends of DH. He suggested them and I agreed and was happy he was getting involved. We haven't seen them in the 4years since the christening.

My DD has 4, 3 godmothers and 1 godfather although we no longer see 1 of her godmothers.

Chose 4 for each. None family since they were already aunts, uncles etc. Lots of close contact to start with and then none.

Have very canny and money minded friends ... it was surprising how many of their children's godparents were confirmed bachelors or spinsters. Or one of a pair of a guaranteed childless couple.

I would look for people who, Christian or not, are loving and kind people and are prepared to be involved and be an extra ear for your child. If they have a skill or interest (art, music, food, sport) that is a bonus. As is some sense of spirituality and morality.

My dd has 3

My brother
My best friend
My mums best friend who I call aunt

My DS has two- godmother and godfather.

Anymore is pointless

Im Church of Scotland and its either 1 or 2 people have. Ive never known of more than 2 at a CoS christening

DD1 has three; a uni friend of mine, a school/uni friend of DH and a much younger, shared friend. All are practising Christians.

DD2 had five; school friend of mine, colleague of DH, couple who are church friends of both of us and another church friend. One of the couple friends died when DD2 was 6 so she is down to four. The original reason for having so many was that DD2 was unexpected and arrived after lots of miscarriages - her Godparents are friends who were particularly supportive.

We didn't choose family members because they already have a role in our DDs' lives.

None.

Our twins aren't born yet but will probably have one each outside of my DP and I. 🤔 So 3 in total.
We've chosen my DB for one of the twins and my DP's sister for the other twin.

I'm not religious and neither is my DP but in Denmark it is normal to christen your child for the sake of tradition 😊

4 each - 2 men and 2 women.

The priest made extra jobs for my younger siblings and DS at DD's baptism, there are lots of us and they are all altar servers anyway so the priest let them serve at her baptism, with candles, incense, bells etc so they had something to do (there aren't usually servers at baptisms, at least in our parish) and as DH's sister isn't Catholic and felt left out the priest arranged for her to read something. Might be an option to look into if you have lots of people you want to be part of it?

Four each. Very good and long standing friends, cousins of ours and brother in law.

DD has 3, 2 godmothers and a godfather. I think this is traditional in the CofE but not Catholic, I'm Catholic and I just have a godmother (DD was christened CofE)

DS1 has 2.
DS2 has 3.
DD is not christened.

Four- my sister, my best friend and her husband, and my partner’s best friend.

One godfather and one godmother each. Never heard of 3 being normal. We're catholic.

4, we went for two couples. Though one of the couples has since split, actually split about a month after dd's christening. Still in touch with all 4, as is teen dd.

I'm godparent to a friend; dd, as is dh. We see them regularly and our Will makes a gift to him in the event of our deaths. We don't really,treat him any different to his older sister, who is a very close friend of dd.

We chose friends and not family deliberately. We felt family already have a big role in our child's life, and we wanted godparents to extend her 'family' group.

We actually aren't religious at all these days. None of us are. We wouldn't have a christening now. But back then we were more on the cusp and it was the done thing more too.

My child isn't christened as I will wait until they are old enough to make their own decisions about baptism & faith.
I am godparent to two, and have never had any involvement in matters of faith in those childrens' (now adults) lives.