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This is not only a royal thing but a catholic. Traditionally the baptism is a event with only neat family and godparents. Even familys who have the money prefr to do it in a quiet way and often do not even go out to a restaurant but keep it at home. From earlier days when babies were baptised shortly after birth and mothers understandably prefered not to take the lil ones out this tradition sources. ��
Why would it even be an option to go a restaurant after a child's baptism? I never heard of it or even thought about it... I am used to baptisms taking place on a regular Sunday morning service and some additional family members or friends of the parents (many times several babies are baptized in the same service) will attend the service but that's about it. After the church service there might be a room in the church (or as part of the church complex) where the congregation and/or the family and some guests will meet for coffee/tea and that's it... Closest family members and/or godparents might join the young family to their home afterwards; just like they might spend some time together on other moments of the year.
Of course, a royal baptism is different in that it is normally not done in a regular Sunday morning service... so it can be either rather grand (Dutch royals; for example, Amalia's baptism to which my husband was invited) or small (Belgian royals) depending on their own preferences; and I would assume they will invite their personal guests to spend some time with them after the service. Especially if they had to travel a longer distance to attend.
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