The 3-Piece Baptism Keepsake Set Families Actually Keep
A christening is remembered through the things people take home. The invitation that arrived in the mail, the card tucked into a keepsake box, the banner standing behind every photograph. This set covers all three, printed on stock that holds up long after the candles are packed away.
The baptism keepsake set is three printed pieces that carry one christening from the first invitation to the last thank you. Baptism invitations announce the date and the church, baptism banners give the reception a backdrop worth photographing, and baptism cards send every guest home with something to keep. Ordered together from 4OVER4.COM, the typeface and the color match across all three and the invitations and cards share one card stock, so the day reads as one family celebration rather than three separate errands.
The picks
The invitation, the keepsake card and the banner, line by line
Start here. These are the three pieces the set is built from, each priced live and configurable in the same session. Pick the invitation first, because it settles the paper and the palette, then match the banner and the cards to it so nothing looks borrowed.
Design and print help
One typeface and one color for the whole christening
The set only works if every piece looks related. The invitations and the cards share the same cover stocks, so pick one of them, 14pt Cream Uncoated for a soft ivory or 16pt Uncoated with Soft Touch, and use it for both. The banner prints on 13oz outdoor vinyl, so carry the name treatment across instead of the paper. These four tools keep the artwork, the colors and the paper consistent from the invitation envelope to the banner behind the cake table.
How they work together
Print in the order the day unfolds
Each piece owns a stage of the christening. Print in that order and nothing arrives late: invitations go out while guests can still clear the Sunday, the banner follows the venue booking, the cards follow the headcount.
Get the date in front of godparents and traveling family early, while flights are still reasonable and a Sunday morning can still be cleared.
Give the reception a named backdrop so every phone in the room frames the same shot instead of a bare hall wall.
Thank you notes, table names and a printed blessing. This is the piece that outlives the day and ends up stored with the photographs.
1. Baptism invitations: the piece that sets the date and the tone
The invitation is the only piece of the set that arrives before anyone has decided whether they can come. It carries the date, the church, the reception address and, quietly, the level of formality the family intends. Godparents and grandparents feel the paper before they read a single line of the wording.
Give the invitation a reason to stay on the fridge instead of going into the recycling. A soft ivory stock, the child name set large, and a mailing date early enough that travel is still possible. Our roundup of save the date ideas translates directly to a christening, and the bifold setup and dimensions guide helps if you print a separate folded order of service.
Mail them six to eight weeks out. Family often travels for a baptism, and flights only get more expensive the closer the ceremony sits.
2. Baptism cards: the keepsake that outlives the ceremony
This is the piece that survives. Thank you notes, name cards on the table, a short blessing printed for every guest to take home: baptism cards do all three jobs, and they are the item that turns up years later in a shoebox alongside the christening photographs. Print past the guest count, so there is a spare to mail to a relative who could not travel.
Cards are also where personalization pays for itself. Add the child name, the date, the church and one line from the reading, and the card stops being stationery and becomes a record of a specific morning. If you are also tying tags onto favor bags or boxes, the printed product tags guide covers stock weight, string and hole placement.
Order the cards in the same stock family as the invitation. Guests will never name the reason, but the set will read as one christening instead of two unrelated print jobs.
3. Baptism banners: the backdrop every photograph goes through
Every photograph taken at the reception has a background, and you are the one who gets to choose it. A banner with the child name above the cake table gives every phone in the room the same frame, which is why pictures from a banner party look composed and pictures from a bare hall wall do not.
Vinyl handles a church basement, a backyard and a damp sidewalk equally well, and it rolls up afterward for the first birthday. Keep the text short: the name, the date, nothing else. Browse the rest of the baptism printing collection if you are boxing favors too, and the custom cardboard boxes guide covers sizing those without guesswork.
Hang it the morning of, not the hour before. Grommets and zip ties always take longer than anyone plans for, and the photographer usually arrives early.
Specs and pricing
Anchor the set: baptism invitation specs and live pricing
The invitation sets the stock and the trim that everything else answers to. It comes flat in 4.25 x 5.5, 5 x 7 or 6 x 6 inches, on twenty cover stocks, from 14pt gloss and 18pt cream uncoated to white linen and metallic pearl, with matching white wove envelopes as an option and a 3 business day standard turnaround. Here are its live specs and quantity pricing, so you can size the whole set against one real number before ordering.
| Quantity | Price Per Unit | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 79.1¢ | $19.77 |
| 50 | 50.5¢ | $25.27 |
| 100 | 42.8¢ | $42.84 |
| 200 | 25.8¢ | $51.62 |
| 300 | 20.1¢ | $60.42 |
| 400 | 17.3¢ | $69.20 |
| 500 | 15.6¢ | $77.99 |
| 600 | 15.4¢ | $92.26 |
Wally explains the set
Three pieces, one christening, printed to be kept
Wally thinks about a baptism the way a family remembers it later, in objects. The invitation is the promise, the banner is the room, and the card is the thing that ends up in a drawer and gets found again in ten years. Print all three from the same shop, on the same white, and the christening reads as one occasion instead of three.
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Where to go next
For the rest of the christening, the baptism collection holds every piece in one place, the save the date roundup helps you announce early, the hang tags guide covers stock weight and string for favor bags, and the box size chart sizes favor boxes before you order them.
By the numbers
One set, printed to last past the day
Common Questions
Common questions about the baptism keepsake set
What is included in the baptism keepsake set?
Three printed pieces that cover a christening end to end. Baptism invitations announce the date, the church and the reception. Baptism banners give the celebration a named backdrop for photographs. Baptism cards send guests home with a thank you note or a printed blessing worth keeping. Each is priced and configured separately, but they are designed to be ordered as one matching set.
In what order should I order and use these pieces?
Follow the calendar. Invitations first, six to eight weeks before the ceremony, because family often travels for a baptism and needs lead time. The banner next, once the venue and the wording are locked. Cards last, when the final headcount is known, so you print the right quantity rather than guessing early and reprinting later.
Do I need all three pieces for a baptism?
You can hold a baptism with invitations alone. The set exists because the other two pieces solve problems that show up on the day. Without a banner, every photograph has a random background. Without cards, guests leave with nothing and thank you notes turn into text messages.
How do I keep the three pieces looking like one celebration?
Repeat three things on every piece: the child name set in the same typeface, one accent color used the same way, and a paper family that shares a white. Do not mix a warm ivory invitation with a cool bright white card, because the difference is obvious when they sit side by side on a table. Order free samples first if you are unsure which white you want.
How many baptism cards should I print?
Count invited guests, then add twenty to thirty percent. Cards get used in more places than people expect: one per guest as a keepsake, extras for the table settings, a handful for grandparents who want to mail them to relatives who could not travel, and a few kept blank for the family album. Reprinting a small second run costs more per card than printing the buffer up front.
How much does the full baptism keepsake set cost to print?
Each piece is priced live on its own product page, so the total depends on quantity, size and stock. Baptism cards start at $16.48, baptism invitations at $19.77, and baptism banners at $79. Configure the invitation first, since it sets the stock and trim the rest of the set answers to, then add the cards and the banner in the same session to see a real total.
Can I add more pieces later for the first birthday or communion?
Yes. The set is a starting point, not a limit. The artwork you approve for a christening reuses cleanly for a first birthday, a name day or a first communion. Keep the print files, swap the date and the occasion line, and the family look carries forward across years.
Get Started
Baptism invitations start at 25 for $19.77
Order the invitations, the banner and the keepsake cards together from the baptism collection, so one christening arrives in one look, on paper the family will still have long after the day.
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