Use of the term second cousin in a formal setting.
I am trying to write an engraving message for a Christening gift. Please help me. I am Godfather of my cousin’s son. I have asked to be a Godfather of his son. What are my circumstances?
I ideally want to put “from your Godfather and second cousin”, since “my name is Jamie” and the other Godfather is also known as Jamie. At that moment, I have to do what has happened to me in the past and get rid of the meaning of “from your godfather”.
Where to put your Godfather and your second cousin the other way around. I want to put it grammatically correct.
So far I have this:
Oliver on your Christening, with love from Godfather and second cousin Jamie.
Any order is equally correct. What are some examples? The one you have is fine, going from less specific to more specific.
However, there’s clearly a “to” missing in front of “Oliver”. The other answers so far fix it only quietly, and only insufficiently with saying “To Oliver on your Christening”. That makes Oliver a different person from the recipient of the Christening, because you are second person, while Oliver is third person. For someone to fix that, the you should be replaced with his.
To Oliver on his Christening, with love from Godfather and second cousin Jamie
The second his is optional. If something is yours to answer, it just cannot
be yours.
I would switch some parts of the sentence around and use parentheses in order to minimize the scope for ambiguity.
To Oliver on the occasion of your christening, with love from Jamie (your godfather
and second cousin) Incidentally, it is unnecessary to capitalize christening and
godfather: they are generic nouns rather than proper nouns.
On the other hand, the day may come when Oliver realizes that you’re not second cousins, and if they still slap their foreheads, he will.
