to insist on cancelling dc christening today due to snow ??

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we are in birmingham and have just invited close family + godparents to dc christening this pm.

dh family are mostly local but mine have much further to travel and my parents now can't make it due to the snow. Possibly my db might not be able to make it either and I haven't even been able to contact this morning one set of godparents.

I want to postpone so my parents can be there but dh is refusing (his folks live about 20 mins away).

I don't know what to do - at this rate it will just be dh family (who I don't get on with anyway!).

Also by going ahead I am worried that some attendees (like the set of godparents coming from kent) might endanger themselves - end up stranded/ in a terrible jam in order to attend and it isn't really fair on them.

what should I do - should I try and insist on cancelling or just go ahead??

If you believe in the sacred ritual of baptism, then it doesn't actually matter whether the godparents are there or whether someone stands in. Of course the godparents have agreed to do what they vow to do in the ceremony. The stand in is just a mouthpiece

I am not a believer btw, I am just explaining how it works.

Nah, these are meant to be godparents to a child, those who will stand in to help you rise this child. They are not the same as wedding witness that you can pull in from the street. Honest.

Yeap, and the godparents would still do that (if they are genuine godparents who believe what the vows state). The stand in would be a mouthpiece (ie not have any godparently duties)

By this afternoon the snow may have gone-where are your family? Could the other godparents be on the way? What would the vicar/priest feel about a cancellation? If your family really can't make it and the church is OK with it then I would postpone.

I would go ahead anyway. The christening itself is the most important thing.

You can have proxies to stand in for the godparents. I am godmother to my niece but wasn't at the christening. My sister stood in for me.