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[quote=Anonymous]This might sound premature, but I am Catholic and doing baptism preparation. My husband and I plan on having our baby baptized and I always imagined that he/she would wear a christening gown made from my wedding dress. I have already contacted a woman on Etsy who makes beautiful gowns out of wedding gowns. My husband's mother is rather pushy and she has a lot of influence on him because of her personality. She has a family heirloom christening gown that she claims is "400 years old" (it might be 100 years old) that she would like our baby to wear. My family also has a family christening gown and to avoid hurt feelings and start our own family tradition rather than always appeasing our parents, I would like our baby wear the gown made out of my dress. My family has a dress that all my aunts, uncles and cousins wore too. The thing is, my mother in law refuses to let my husband have the gown ahead of time and to dress our child himself at our home. She wants to dress the baby in the gown at church, which is ill advised. When our nephew was baptized, the dress was very flimsy, falling apart and cold for a winter baptism. Our baby will also be baptized in the winter. What would you do? I don't want to cause drama, but I would like our baby to wear a gown made from my dress, especially since they will be baptized in the same church where we were married (extra special). [/quote]

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