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If you are pregnant and considering adoption, you may consider having an entrustment ceremony after your child is born before the adoption is finalized.
Entrustment ceremonies are becoming more common in the adoption community lately as more birth parents and adoptive parents are choosing to come together and partake in this touching ceremony.
This ceremony takes some of the legality out of adoption and touches more on the emotional and symbolic side of adoption.
There is no right or wrong way to plan an entrustment ceremony. The options are endless and should be tailored to what you and the adoptive parents are most comfortable with.
1. Talk with the potential adoptive parents and make sue they are ok with participating in an entrustment ceremony.
2. Decide where you would like to have the entrustment ceremony. The options are endless and could include but are not limited to any of the following: hospital chapel, a church, someone’s home, or a park.
3. Decide if you want someone, such as a minister, to officiate the ceremony.
4. Decide who you want to invite to the entrustment ceremony. You may wish to keep it private just between you and the adoptive parents and the birth father if he is involved or you may wish to invite close friends or family.
5. Decide what you want to go on at the entrustment ceremony. This can include but is not limited to the following ideas: candle light ceremony, playing of a special song, reading of special poetry or letters from the adoptive parents to the baby and/or birthmom or reading of a letter from the birthmother to the baby and/or adoptive parents.
Don’t forget to take a lot of pictures and save copies of any text read a loud at the ceremony so that your baby may one day read it.
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More resources on entrustment ceremonies:
Entrustment Ceremony
Entrustment Ceremony Poems
