The Naming Ceremony Money Problem Nobody Talks About

A naming ceremony in Nigeria is a full production. The family has been cooking since the night before. The hall is dressed. The church or imam's blessing has been arranged. Guests are arriving from three states.

It is also the kind of event where money moves in four directions at once and accounting for it is nearly impossible.

Where the money goes

At a typical naming ceremony, money comes in through spraying on the dance floor, gifts handed directly to the mother, transfers sent to the father's account, and contributions from church members or family sets who pooled money together.

It goes out through picking — guests and event staff collecting notes from the floor, the informal cut that happens around any cash-heavy celebration, and the general friction of physical money in a crowded room.

Nobody means harm. Most of it is not deliberate. But the gap between what was given and what the family ends up with is real and it is rarely small.

The digital naming ceremony setup

Create the event on Giftinz with the baby's name and the date. Share the sprayboard link in every group — family, church, work, friends. Anyone who cannot attend physically can still spray in real time and have their name called at the event.

For guests at the venue, the sprayboard is on the big screen. Every spray appears live. The MC acknowledges it. The family is visibly grateful. And every naira goes directly to the wallet — nothing on the floor, nothing missing.

The grandparent factor

Extended family and older relatives who cannot travel to a naming ceremony in a city they are not based in now have a proper way to give. Not a transfer that arrives quietly in an account, but a spray that appears on the screen at the event, with their name and their message, at the moment it matters.