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Catholic Wedding Requirements
PRELIMINARY PREPARATION:
1. Wedding Packet & Arrangement - You will meet with a priest or deacon to fill out a request form and set up the wedding date and time and receive a wedding packet. No marriage arrangements can be done via telephone. The Archdiocese has requested that this be done at least six months prior to the wedding date.
2. Marriage Preparation - You must attend marriage preparation sessions: either Pre- Engaged Couples weekend, or a day preparation. After finishing Pre-Cana, contact the priest or deacon for further preparation.
3. Certificates of Letters - You must obtain certificates and letter such as Baptismal certificates, Holy Communion and Confirmation Certificates
4. Discussion about the wedding service (reading, music, rehearsal, decor, fees, etc.) - Any options will be discussed at this time (e.g. presentation of flowers to mothers at the sign of peace, lighting of the wedding (unity) candle, flowers presented at the Statue of the Blessed Mother.
5. Preparation with Visiting Presider - If a visiting priest or deacon is officiating, he might wish to complete the preparation and the pre-matrimonial questionnaire. Please check with him and let us know at least two months in advance.
6. In the event of any changes - If you change the date of your wedding, your address, your telephone, or the official witness (best man, maid or matron of honor), please inform the rectory promptly. If you cancel your scheduled wedding, please present promptly a written statement to this effect with your signature.
7. Marriage Banns - The banns will be published automatically for weddings of parish taking place here. If the bride or groom belongs to another parish, he or she should ask that parish to publish the banns in their home parish's bulletin. This must be completed two months prior to your ceremony.
REQUIRED:
1. Baptismal certificates with notations for any Catholic party from the place of their baptism, dated within six months of the proposed marriage. The baptismal certificate without a marriage notation is one that the proof that the person was not married previously in the Catholic Church.
----Proof of baptism of baptized non-Catholics should be established by certificate and/or affidavit.
2. Pre-nuptial investigation (PMI) form completed by both parties form with a priest or deacon.
3. Two affidavits for each party from individual witnesses who testify under oath that the bride or groom are free to marry (no impediments), and for baptized non-Catholics verification of their baptism.
4. Pre-Cana certificates
5. A civil license is required and must be obtained within 60 days prior to the wedding. Do not wait for the last week to apply since there is a waiting period required for preparation of the license |
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