NAMING CEREMONY
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Naming Ceremony A naming ceremony is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the birth of a baby or welcome adopted or stepchildren into your wider family circle. This ceremony is designed as an alternative to a religious celebration, has no legal standing, but creates a special event for family and friends to come together. A naming ceremony • welcomes a new child or children into your family and enables you to express love, care and commitment to them in front of your family and friends
• enables supporting adults or grandparents to publicly promise to help and support your child or children as they grow up within our community
The ceremony will be delivered by a member of the Surrey registration staff and you will be presented with a commemorative certificate to mark the event. If you would like to book a naming ceremony ceremony, please visit our website – www.surreycc.gov.uk/ ceremonies.
Our ceremony is designed to meet the individual needs of your family and you may choose to personalise it further by including a reading of verse or a suitable piece of prose. Every ceremony is different, and your own choice of content will ensure that it is a truly unique celebration that you and your family will remember as your child grows older. Any parent, legal guardian, or person with parental responsibility for the child may organise a welcoming ceremony and you can choose to hold it at any one of our licenced venues or at one of our three Surrey register offices in Guildford, Leatherhead or Weybridge.
• celebrates the name of a new child or children
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