Justine Lister

Naming & Welcome  Celebrations  Include:

• Naming ceremony-for babies and older children.
• Family blending ceremonies

Babies and Children

Welcoming a new addition into your family and into the world through birth or adoption is indeed a time of celebration, and a time to bring together families and friends.

This is your opportunity to share your joy and to publicly pledge your love, hopes and dreams for your precious one. Significant adults can be invited to become a positive role model and nurturing mentor for your child, and they can also commit to supporting you on your parenting journey.

Naming and Welcome ceremonies are not only perfect for celebrating new babies but can include older siblings within the family too.

Family Blending- for bringing together new couples and their children

This really is a wonderful and special way of unifying two separate families into a new and complete whole. This is the perfect occasion to stand together as one and commit to each other in love and togetherness.

Parents and children alike can share what they cherish and value in each other and what their own personal meaning of family is to them. Other family members can join the ceremony and take on supporting roles so that the children in the new family are made to feel special and safe at all times.