Types of
Naming Ceremonies
Your child's naming ceremony is an opportunity to bring
together family and friends to witness your formal
commitment to your child and to parenting your
child. It is a wonderful centrepiece for a family
celebration, either to formally welcome the child into
the family (which can be done at any age) or to
celebrate the child's first birthday.
Different families have different needs, so I offer you
a choice of ceremony packages.
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Naming Ceremony Packages
Naming Ceremony
Custom-Created and Officiated by Jennifer Cram
($400)
A fully personal custom-created ceremony is created just
for you, a ceremony that is all about your child, your
family, developed, created and performed by one of the
most experienced naming celebrants in South-East
Queensland, a ceremony that your family and friends will
say was "so them".
Naming Ceremony
A richly symbolic formal naming ceremony, including
family, friends, appointment of sponsors, which can be
as light-hearted and casual as you choose. The
ceremony also serves to formally welcome the child into
the family.
First Birthday Naming Ceremony
It is common to hold a naming ceremony as the
centrepiece of the child's first birthday celebrations.
Naming Ceremony for an Older Child
A richly symbolic formal naming ceremony, including
family, friends, appointment of sponsors, which can be
as light-hearted and casual as you choose, and which is
developed in partnership with the child.
Combo Ceremony
(POA)
A combo naming ceremony is a ceremony that
includes the naming of two or more children who are not
brother/sister to each other. A different type of combo
ceremony is where a naming is incorporated as part
of a wedding or reaffirmation of vows ceremony. Because
of the complexity and work required to develop and
officiate at a combo ceremony an additional fee will
apply.
Naming Ceremony Script
Service ($225)
If you would like to conduct your child's naming
ceremony yourself, or have a close family member or
friend lead you through the ceremony, I write the
ceremony for you.
My Naming Ceremony Script Writing
Service allows you to have the benefit of a personal
ceremony developed and created by a very experienced
naming celebrant, regardless of where you live,
and regardless of whether I have a prior booking for
your chosen day. I have created ceremonies for families
all around Australia and for ex-pat Australian families
posted overseas.
Ceremonies for
Non-Traditional Families
Anyone with responsibility for a child can arrange and
host a naming ceremony for that child. This includes
couples who are not married, foster parents, guardians,
single parents, and grandparents. There are no
restrictions!
Adult Naming/Re-Naming
Ceremonies ($400)
There are a number of reasons why an adult may wish to
have a naming or re-naming ceremony. Any or all can be
accommodated in a sensitive and celebratory ceremony.
Both officiated and Naming Ceremony Script Service
ceremonies are available
Pet Naming Ceremonies
(Ask for a quote)
Welcoming a new fur-person or other companion animal
into your life and family? I bring the skills developed
over years of creating hundreds of heart-warming and
personal baby-naming ceremonies to the development and
creation of a naming ceremony tailored to you pet. Both
officiated and Naming Ceremony Script Service ceremonies
are available for your fur babies.
Spiritual
Ceremonies/Baby Dedication Ceremonies/A Touch of
Religion?
Unless you specifically request religious inclusions I
assume that the ceremony will be secular. However,
if you wish, you may include religious references,
readings and/or prayers in a naming ceremony.
Where you yourselves are not religious but someone
important to you is, this can be accomplished in a
number of ways that are not intrusively obvious to
guests who are not religious but which lend an air of
familiarity to the ceremony for those who are. This is
also a way to acknowledge dual religious heritages
within a secular (non-religious) ceremony.
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