Naming ceremonies

[Loobie]

I was thinking of having a naming ceremony for dd first birthday,along with a party,has anyone had one for their kid/s,been to someone elses and know anything about how i could go about arranging this,what they consist of exactly(have a brief idea) and does it have any legal implications,etc.BTW dd b'day is in Nov and we are in scotland(sometimes english laws are different for some things)so i need our version.

Naming ceremonys don't have any legal implications.

We had one for our ds, and designed it ourselves. It did have a religious angle - but not Christian if you see what I mean....

Basically (leaving out the erligious/spiritual stuff) the whole point of the ceremony was to introduce ds to our friends and family, and the world in general. So we went to a special place - with our friends and family - and said effectively "this is xxx". We had chosen 4 friends to stand as guardians to ds, and they each welcomed him and made a special wish for him, and then most of the rest of the friends there made a wish for him too, whilst we passed around a "friendship cup" of wine and toasted him. And that was pretty much it. We all went back home for lunch.

I think the Humanist Society will design a naming ceremnoy for you if you want that sort of thing, and there is also a company called "Baby Naming Society". There is a link (Although not actually to the companies in question) here.

we had a naming ceremony for ds. We had a party, a big cake and, like oakmaiden, had people we had chosen as guardians.

The point for me was to say, here is X, welcome to the world.