Christening Question

[Rapidan]

I am having my two girls christened this year, and they are 6 and 4. Do they still need to wear a cream coloured dress or would any nice party dress suit the occasion? Suggestions needed please as the vicar has said tit is up to me and I have not been able to find much on the internet about what people would usually do. Thank you!

Entirely up to you I would have thought. There's a family christening dress for babies in DH's family so DD wore that, but DS was too fat too old and big for that so just wore something vaguely smart and roughly clean (!)

I would also say entirely up to you. Go with whatever makes you/them happy.

Whatever you/they like will be fine - if they enjoy being dressed up for "special occasions" then nice party dresses. But if they don't enjoy that then let them wear whatever they do like which you would be happy for them to be out & about in!

Absolutely anything is fine. Flower girl type things are nice if they like dressing up, but equally a nice pair of trousers and a tunic is fine if that's what they like.

Thanks for the responses - very helpful!

How traditional is your Church and family?

I'd say there is still a strong (though not universal) view that white/cream should be worn (as it would be for infant baptism, first communion and confirmation).