{"id":47,"date":"2008-04-01T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/archives\/47"},"modified":"2008-04-01T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:40:07","slug":"christened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Christened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all we&#8217;d like to say a big &#8220;Thank You&#8221; to everyone who was at Charlotte&#8217;s christening on the 22nd &#8211; I know quite a few of you had a long journey up north, to Stoke for the evening. It was great to see everyone again, we just wish we had had a bit more time after the service to have a longer chat with everyone &#8211; especially as this was the first time that Von had met some of you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/christening-gown1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1206957730]\" title=\"Lottie in her Christening Gown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/christening-gown1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Lottie in her Christening Gown\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"200\" width=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our thanks also go out to Father Brian, who gave us a unique and memorable christening service as part of the Festival of Light celebration on Holy Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d also like to say a special &#8220;thank you&#8221; to Charlotte&#8217;s God parents; Judith, Judy, Zoe and Simon, as well as the whole congregation at Holy Trinity Sneyd, and everybody who was kind enough to give Charlotte some (more) beautiful gifts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/zoes-stones1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics47]\" title=\"Birthstones from Godmother Zoe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/zoes-stones1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Birthstones from Godmother Zoe\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"154\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/jewellery1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1206957730]\" title=\"Jewellery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/jewellery1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Jewellery\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"181\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks as well to Charlotte&#8217;s Gran for making not one, but two delicious cakes that were enjoyed by everybody after the service, and we can&#8217;t leave out Charlotte&#8217;s two Sisters Alex and Steph who both looked beautiful, and who have both been such a help to Von and I since their little Sister was born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/christening-cake1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1206957730]\" title=\"Christening Cake\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/christening-cake1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Christening Cake\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"200\" width=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hope to come and visit everybody as soon as we can organise a long weekend to head down south sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all we&#8217;d like to say a big &#8220;Thank You&#8221; to everyone who was at Charlotte&#8217;s christening on the 22nd &#8211; I know quite a few of you had a long journey up north, to Stoke for the evening. It was great to see everyone again, we just wish we had had a bit &#8230; <a title=\"Christened\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/?p=47\" aria-label=\"Read more about Christened\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}