{"id":1056,"date":"2015-04-08T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2015-03-27T09:16:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T09:16:04","slug":"christening-party-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/christening-party-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christening party ideas\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">The christening or baptism of a baby or child stems from the Christian religious practise of immersing oneself in water to wash away sins (The Greek word \u2018baptizo\u2019 literally means to immerse, plunge, dip, or bury in water) and in later years the ceremony became associated with the taking of a name to symbolize new life.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Adults may choose to be baptised later in life but whatever the age of the participant, the naming ceremony whether religious or otherwise is usually followed by a family celebration.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Regardless of the size of your christening or naming-ceremony, musical accompaniment will both enhance the atmosphere and entertain your guests throughout the day.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Classical music such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/product.php?catid=51\">hiring a string quartete<\/a>, harpists or solo singers are popular choices for the ceremony, with jazz bands, soul bands and pianists proving good choices for the drinks reception afterwards.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Many Christenings now also run on into the night with a party function band or DJ.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">If you will have a good number of children attending then it pays to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/index.html\">hire entertainers<\/a> to keep them occupied. Check out Red Masque&#8217;s directory of great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/product.php?catid=96\">children\u2019s entertainers<\/a>, magicians &amp; street entertainers. Also think about face painting &amp; fancy dress costumes which are always a great way to keep them entertained.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The christening or baptism of a baby or child stems from the Christian religious practise of immersing oneself in water to wash away sins (The Greek word \u2018baptizo\u2019 literally means to immerse, plunge, dip, or bury in water) and in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/christening-party-ideas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[542,384,4,546,1,242,338],"tags":[476,73,274,333,32,16,350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}