baptism planner

It's crunch  time for us.  Just five (5) more days before our baby Tamara's christening.  We started planning early but it feels like three months still isn't enough.  ;-)

As suggested by most party planners I've downloaded, it is best to start the planning for a not-so-big party at least two months prior. I started looking for the church and reception venue as early as June.  After searching the net for every possible venue and getting an idea of the average cost per person, we set the total budget for the baptism, selected and advised the godparents and made the reservations by early October.  We only needed to make a reservation fee at the reception venue so we can finalize the guest list after.

Once we have the guest list, the invitation is up.  My husband is an artist to the design is no problem.  What bugged us most was how to distribute it if we decided to have a printed invite.  **sigh**  We also started searching for possible party favors and tokens for the godparents.  For Hailey's christening in 2007, we gave out DIY rosaries.  It turned out great but since I'm in a Christian company and a lot of our guests are Christians, we decided to give out something else.

We've already decided on the menu even before we made reservations so that's already one thing crossed off our to do list.  Next is sending out the invite which we did electronically through Event Kingdom.  (Will go into details of that in another post.)  The baptismal ceremony will only take about half an hour while the reception will last for at least three (3) hours so we decided to go for a budget baptismal gown and spend on the after party outfit instead.  

A trip to Divisoria was put to waste when we weren't able to buy the canvas bags that we went there for. Thankfully we were able to buy ribbons and rosettes for the baptismal candles that I'd be designing.  With a whole weekend put to waste and another party favor idea down the drain, we went behind the schedule.  So now, with only 5 days to go, we are still working on the party favors and baptismal candles.

The only thing we were able to cross of our to do list this week is the reconfirmation with guests.  And it's not even 100% done yet.  Although it's not really my party and the star of the day is my daughter, I still hope to get my beauty rest before then.  Don't want any pics of me looking harassed. ;-)

For any one else who'd like to do the party organizing in an organized way, I'm sharing with you the baptismal planner I made especially for this event.  Click on the photo to download.