Naming ceremonies
Naming ceremonies are a way of formally celebrating a new baby
or an older child as part of your family and enabling family and
close friends to share your happiness.
All Naming ceremonies have six essential sections:
- Introduction and welcome
- Reading
- Naming of the child or children
- Parent's promises
- Promises by supporting adults
- Closing words
The ceremony is a very personal event. You may also add to
the ceremony to make it unique to you. Here are a few
examples:
- include reasons for the names
- grandparent's promises
- further readings
- hopes for the future
A souvenir record is signed during the ceremony by parents,
supporting adults and the Naming Officer. The cost of a naming
ceremony is £180.
You can have your naming ceremony in the historic wooden panelled
Old Council Chambers, one of our Registration Offices or at any of
our other
approved venues. You can also have the ceremony in your
own home or garden or at one of the many other spectacular
locations throughout Perth and Kinross.
Please note that neither the ceremony nor any document issued at
a ceremony has any legal status. The ceremony cannot be used
to change a child's official name.
