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Naming ceremony - card question

  • 27-04-2018 9:25pm
    #1
    St1mpMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭


    Going to a naming ceremony for a new baby and I've bought a card with "on your naming day".

    Is the card supposed to be addressed to the kid or the parents ?!? :D

    I imagine it's to the kid, though they won't be able to read it :confused:


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  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    You’re over-thinking this :)


  • #3
    St1mpMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭St1mpMeister


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    You’re over-thinking this :)

    so I'll just put:

    "Hey kid, I know you won't be able to read this, but..er.. congrats"

    ?


  • #4
    St1mpMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭St1mpMeister


    apparently has been asked before: http://www.essentialkids.com.au/forums/index.php?/topic/709071-who-to-address-naming-day-card-to/

    Best guess just put all three names on the card :)


  • #5
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    St1mpMeister wrote: »
    so I'll just put:

    "Hey kid, I know you won't be able to read this, but..er.. congrats"

    ?
    Same as you would on a first or second birthday card!

    No harm in addressing it to the child IMO.


  • #6
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Well, if its a ceremony for a naming day (why?) how about 'Happy Naming Day!'. Too obvious...?


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  • #7
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,994 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    St1mpMeister wrote: »
    Going to a naming ceremony for a new baby and I've bought a card with "on your naming day".

    Is the card supposed to be addressed to the kid or the parents ?!? :D

    I imagine it's to the kid, though they won't be able to read it :confused:
    If it's for "your naming day", the card is obviously addressed to the kid. I imagine the parents were named some time ago.

    Of course the kid won't be able to read it. But his doting parents will put it aside and use it to embarrass him or her in later years. So be sure that your message is especially embarrassing.


  • #8
    St1mpMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭St1mpMeister


    Actually it seems to be a common enough confusing subject for those who don't oft associate with new parents

    https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070620024441AA5r3Wb

    Majority consensus on that forum was it's for the parents :)


    Anyway I just wished the kid the best and congratulated the folks :D


  • #9
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,499 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    The average IQ on Yahoo Answers appears to be about 25.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



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