God parent proposal

[goodmorningsunny]

I know I'm going to get a few eye rolls for this on mumsnet but I also know it's an excellent place to come for ideas! I'm a Millennial... we're in to making a big deal out of things :p

I want to ask my Brother and his Fiancee to be DDs Godparents. Any suggestions on inventive ways to ask them? It'll be on Boxing Day. It's our first baby so we're really excited about all these sorts of details :)

I am an agnostic, but even I find myself mildly nauseated by this. Religion is something very meaningful to some people and that should be respected. This is not a hen party type scenario for goodness sake.

Please don't tar all Millennial's with the same brush. It's not a millennial thing, it's just wha thou like. Just ask them normally. Or send a nice card. Or make up a box of goodie a la the naff 'be my bridesmaid' boxes.

As it’s on Boxing Day can you perhaps make them a Christmas cracker and write it on a piece of paper inside?

Well the idea is dumb (sorry OP), but why are posters lecturing her on whether she should be having a christening? Mumsnet is so bloody obtuse.

Have they both been christened? My SIL asked me, my partner/her brother, her best friend and their husband to be godparents to her twins. Unfortunately her best friend had never been christened and so she wasn't able to be a godmother.

@AdInfinitum12 Im a godmother and never been christened?

Perhaps you could all go for a walk to your local church or if they have a Boxing Day service (if that's where you're having the christening) go to that and ask them in the church?

Hello! I am a Catholic, DH isn't religious but he respects my religion and we've agreed we'd like to have her christened in the new year. My Brother was raised Catholic and his fiancée isn't but also respects his religion. We kind of treat our Catholicism as a sort of lifestyle, rather than something we talk about a lot. I know future SIL will love it. She absolutely adores my daughter and will be so happy to be a god mother.

In our upbringing, God Parents weren't really supposed to be religious teachers but they were more people who were specifically honoured by the parents as having a special place and being of special significance to their children. Like my god mother and I hang out all the time because of that special bond... I guess it might just be something in our family, by the sounds of it?

Ignore all the eye-rolling op. Like you, I'm Catholic but it's more important to me culturally than religiously, that's definitely a thing. Also, this will be worth doing if you want her to go to a Catholic school later on- they're often better than secular in the league tables.

A friend of mine gave her friend a framed pic of DC with "will you be my godmother?" Inscribed on frame... if that's the sort of suggestion you're after?

Please don't.

Too right. 😂😂

That sounds a good idea. It will be special enough without any weird proposal.

And a God parent does not keen you take on parental responsibility for the child if both parents die. Before we get on to that.