Christening Gift ideas

Comic Book Guy

Hi All,

First time poster in this section!

Have bee nasked to be Godfather to my partner's niece next month. Looking forward to it but was looking on a few ideas to get the baby.
Should i just play it safe with baby clothes, cuddly toy etc. or is there anything more unique i could get?

Thanks all

polly78

As godfather I agree it's nice to give something special.

You can get plant a rose bush or tree or something to that effect spec for new baby, this is first thing came to me cos it would be (hopefully) a long term acknowledgement of the child, but I think no clothes, toys, or silver tat even though silver is traditional for christening, these gifts are rarely "treasured" nowadays.

crazy cat lady

My little girl was given a charm bracelet for her chistening which is just adorable! It's made by Thomas Sabo and was a gift from her uncle and auntie. Her birthday is really close to Christmas so they bought her a toy for Christmas and a charm for her birthday and I hope this will be the tradition from now on! I also bought her a charm for her birthday. She's obviously too young to appreciate it now, but in the future I think it will be something that she will treasure!

I was also given a pandora charm bracelet when my lil lady was born and she gets me 3 charms a year - Christmas, my birthday and mothers day.

Moonbeam

A snow globe or a charm bracelet or silver photo frame or a nice piggy bank, or a post office account that you can put a few euro in to on special occasions for her.

Acoshla

I would also love to know any ideas for this, I have been asked to be godmother to my aunt's baby boy and would love to get him something special, I am an only child so this is the closest I will get to nieces/nephews! I will already be providing a lovely Christening Cake but I'd like to do something else too.

seabre

I was asked to be God Mother recently and was in the same predicament. I found an Irish Co online who specialise in Hand painted gifts. I got a beautiful Toy Chest from them with his name painted on it and Icould choose all the details I wanted as regards colours etc.

His parents were delighted with it and every one was asking who got it and where so I felt very proud of myself! Perhaps you could get something like this and put the childs details on it maybe Birth date etc.

The Co was called Libs Cribs - I'm sure if you google it you'll find them - they were really lovely to deal with.

Good Luck!

Mom2Be

Christening blanket with name and date of birth embroidered on it.. (",) ?

sud1

I bought a beautiful gift for my god child from a company called baby and christening.ie it is their name in a frame but really special looking...http://www.babyandchristening.ie/category2.php?cPath=22#
You can get them engraved with weight and dob...

it was one of the nicest gifts i have seen for a new baby..

Kikib

I love this idea of a charm bracelet!

Kikib

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

Hi All,

First time poster in this section!

Have bee nasked to be Godfather to my partner's niece next month. Looking forward to it but was looking on a few ideas to get the baby.
Should i just play it safe with baby clothes, cuddly toy etc. or is there anything more unique i could get?

Thanks all

There are 3d casting sets you can get that capture the baby's hands and feet and come with a frame! This is brill cuz it captures their tiny hands and basically you can have it forever. If you google it you should get some websites! I'd love one for my baba....

bubbaloo

I was godmother to my niece last year and had the same question.
A friend suggested a silver christening jug which I got from a jewellers. It's so beautiful and my sister and her hubby asked the priest to use it in the ceremony. It was lovely to give a gift that could be part of the ceremony and then kept for life. I got it engraved with my niece's name and date of birth.

NMoore

A really decent bottle of wine that you can put away...(don't actually give it to them!!), ask the wine shop guys for advice on something that will really last. Add a bottle on thier birthday/special occasions every year, then when they're 21, you can present them with an amazing "cellar" - or at least a case or two - of wine, that will (hopefully) have increased in value a lot over the years... if you can resist drinking it yourself, of course.

Or for a girl, buy a single pearl for each special occasion - and have them made into a jewelry set for her 18th?

rameire

dont buy the christening gift sets for the hair, tooth and all that, they will probably get a few of them and will probably never use them.

get something that will last a while, a long use gift, one that can be looked upon and remembered, as suggested, the silver jug.
or the charm bracelet, it could be added to every birthday.

Comic Book Guy

Thanks for all the replies folks.

I finished up by getting her a big pink bear (not very original i know!!) a blanket with her name embroidered on it and i borrowed her birth certificate and opened up a post office savings account for her and made a nice lodgement