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Naming ceremony - card question

  • 27-04-2018 10:25PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭


    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:


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,319 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    You’re over-thinking this :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭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"

    ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,319 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    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.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 16,035 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 27,954 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 38,421 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


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

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



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