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[quote=Anonymous]Having my third child.  We live far from both sets of grandparents.  For the first two baptisms, both families came in for a long weekend, and it was basically a nightmare for me both times.  The grandparents don't have much in common -- they have seen each other for our wedding and the baptisms only.  Grandmothers are positioning themselves to be closer to my kids, I don't have room for two sets of people to stay with us, so we just don't let anyone stay with us, which is sort of silly.  There is a huge ordeal over whose antique Christening gown I'm using (we've used one from each side now).  Last time, my MIL asked if we could have an engagement dinner for her other son (who also flew in with his fiancee for the baptism) the night before, so my mother and I spent Saturday running around to Costco, etc. to get food for the engagement dinner while my MIL watched the baby -- not exactly what my mom or I wanted to be doing while I had all these people in town.  In all, it's just a very tense, expensive event, and I have missed out on the spiritual side of baptizing my new little person.    I would feel really bad about not inviting the grandparents -- I know they would all be really angry -- but I just can't face this again.  Any ideas for 1. a "destination" baptism -- like we all meet at Westminster Abbey and everyone is in a hotel doing their own thing until the event (not sure this is a thing.....) or 2. How to make this less horrible?  [/quote]

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