For those who have christened their babies..

What kind of christenings did you have for your children? My dh and I are going over and over about this. He wants something big..I want something small with just family, maybe at a restaurant or something..he wants the all out party. I dont even know if we can afford that. DId you have your childs at a hall? Restaurant? Did you have a dj?? Please tell me about it!

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We had it in an Italian restaurant. We had about 60 people. There was no DJ or anything like that. Just a dinner.

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We had DS's christening celebration at our local Knights of Columbus Hall. It turned into something a little more formal than originally planned but I'm glad it did, it was really nice. We had about 80 people and did a buffet dinner and open bar we did floral centerpieces and did favors and had activities for the children. We opted for no DJ but brought mix CD's and piped them through the house sound system.

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when do you christen a baby?? (is there a specific age??)

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We didn't want it big.
So we decided to have it in our backyard.
It ended up being about 60 which was not planned - but just our immediate family is 30 people . So it had to be done this way.

We figured, if we can afford it - we will have a BIG 1st b-day

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He had about 100 people. We did it at a local firehouse but it was nothing formal. We had a catered buffet plus beer, wine and soda. My sister used her MP3 player in the Pa system with speakers all around instead of a DJ.

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We had just our family (about 25 people) over our house for food & cake after the ceremony.

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We had ours at a Knights of Columbus... Used our iPod for music... Buffet style, Beer, Wine and Soda for about 70 people

DS was 4 months

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#1 - large party at restaurant
#2 - small party at restaurant
#3 - even smaller party at home

Poor #3...

But in retrospect, my least favorite party of all 3 was the first one. Maybe thats me talking after having 3 but I liked the at home, immediate family only party we just did.

ETA: BTW, I dont think my large party would be considered huge though...we didnt do a DJ or anything that elaborate but it was about 60 ppl in a private room at a restaurant

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We had immediate family and close friends at a restaurant. We had 28 people.

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We had it at a restaurant and we had 50-60 people and that was only family (Dh has a big family). No DJ.

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We had about 80 family and friends at a Fire House on Sunday

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We just had our immediate family (25 people) at a restaurant. No dj and I gave a picture engraved as a gift. It was very nice.

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Patricks-About 70 at a restaurant
Fiona & Saoirse -about 30 same place.

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We had about 50-55 people in an Italian restaurant. No DJ, we wanted to do something simple and had a great day.

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#1 we had a huge party in our Beach Clubhouse with about 100 people. For #2 we had just family at our house. But our immediate family is 29. For # 3 I'm thinking of just family at a restaurant. i just don't want to think about all the set up and clean up at my house agin. i want someone else to do it and walk away and go home a relax.

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We had the party in our backyard so we invited a lot of people. We ended up with around 40 or 50 people. Made sandwiches and salads and ordered a cake. No DJ or anything.

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DD was almost a month and we had immediate family at our house.

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I wanted a small party and Dh wanted something bigger and he won! We had it at a croatian resturant and it also had a dance floor so my FIL got us a one man band guy who is pretty good so we also had dancing. We had about 75 people.

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I definitely did not want a large party - neither did DH. We had everyone over to a restaurant for lunch after the christening. It was about 35 people, open bar and full lunch. No DJ, etc.

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We had immediate family at a restaurant. Nothing big.

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My DH and I were like you guys...we ended up going with the big party--his idea. We had it at a hall and we had about hmmm...80 people? We did not have a DJ and we did not give out favors.