Christening Etiquette - who pays? (with apologies to roisin!)

[Clayhead]

Just wondered what other people did with regards for paying for a Christening/Baptism/Welcome to the World Party or whatever.

me and dh have paid for both our children's post baptism parties but my friend seemed to find it odd when I mentioned it.

What did everybody else do?

who else would pay??

We paid for our ds Christening ourselves too. Not sure who else would pay for it?

I would expect to pay fot it ourselves if we ever get round to it.

We paid, don't know who else would either!

We also paid ... what's she on about???

My friend's parents and parents-in-law had paid. I had never heard of that either so I thought I'd check on here!

we paid for ds and intend to for no2 as well. just as well as no-one else would have forked out!

we paid, but wasn't that much. Donation to church and our lovely priest came to the party, which was just a BBQ and drinks with cake TBH!

It wouldn't occur to me that you wouldn't pay for your own child's christening - it's you who invite people after all! We paid for dd's.