THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO BABY NAMING CEREMONIES

Becky Alexander

• PRICE £8.99
• EXTENT 176 pages
• BINDING Paperback
• FORMAT 198 X 129 mm
• ISBN 978-1-84528-417-6
• PUB DATE 30 July 2010
• BIC CODE VFX, HRLF
• CATEGORY Parenting
• TERRITORIES World Rights

DESCRIPTION

• Many parents want to celebrate the arrival of a new child with friends and family are looking for alternatives to a christening or religious ceremony
• As there is no legal requirement, you can hold the party at home, in your garden, or at any venue you like.
• You can host the event yourselves, or ask a registered celebrant to host the event.
• Registry offices are now able to offer baby naming ceremonies
• The Good Childhood® Inquiry has made a recommendation to government to introduce non religious, free civil birth ceremonies (Children’s Society, pub. Feb 2009 – the UK’s first independent enquiry into childhood)

KEY POINTS

• There is currently little in the way of generally available etiquette or resource books to draw from in planning a personal ceremony
• This book contains lots of ideas to make your civil naming ceremony memorable and unique to your family
• Everyone can get involved; grandparents, siblings, and specially nominated adults who can act as guardians
• The author has created a unique resource with specially commissioned poetry and readings for use in naming ceremonies

Becky Alexander is mother to Isabel (7) and Polly (3). She lives in St Albans, where she is the food columnist for the local newspaper, and judge at the recent food and drinks awards. She has written recipes for a book on toddler food.

CONTENTS INCLUDE

• How to plan the naming party
• Creating lovely invitations that explain exactly what will happen
• Ideas for indoors and outdoors décor, plus simple decorations
• Providing entertainment and fun for children and adults
• Ideas and recipes for delicious food and drink
• 10 special event ideas for the day, such as star naming, planting a tree and filling a time capsule
• Traditional and contemporary ideas for readings and poems plus new, specifically commissioned poems