Is anyone Catholic?

[c&k]

we got married at disney on august 4th. and then we got our marraige blessed by the catholic church last week sept 6th. our priest had no problem doing that at all, we had told him the whole story that we were getting married at disney first.

 

[SandraVB79]

Get married at Disney first, then come to Belgium, and have your Catholic wedding in a beautiful old church/ cathedral/ whatever you want over here.

In Belgium, you can't get married for church if you haven't had a civil wedding anyways... and priests here are rather liberal.

 

[cantwait!]

We are getting married in Hawaii (outside too) and we are in the process of getting the Bishop of Boston (where I grew up) to send a letter to the Bishop of Hawaii saying that he thinks it is ok for us to do that...then the Bishop of Hawaii has to approve. BIG PROCESS.

 

[Tiggerific04]

So who did everyone have as an officiant? DF and I would like something as close to a Catholic ceremony as possible.

 

[dannirose]

So who did everyone have as an officiant? DF and I would like something as close to a Catholic ceremony as possible.

I believe most of the officiants can add some Catholic style traditions and prayers to the ceremony. We are leaning towards Rev. Knox.

 

[JJClemson]

I believe most of the officiants can add some Catholic style traditions and prayers to the ceremony. We are leaning towards Rev. Knox.

Yes, Rev. Jack Day is doing a Catholic-ish ceremony for us. My parents are hoping my grandparents won't realize he is not a priest Wishful thinking... But I believe dannirose is correct, most officiants do offer Catholic-ish options.

 

[Surfingstitch]

Long story made short:

We originally wanted to have a DFTW until DF's mother wanted her to have a Catholic wedding.

Since she is close to her mother, we decided to have a catholic wedding here at home in Washington.

Keep in mind, she has not been to church in 7 years and the church that she attended growing up has a wierd center alter we started looking for other churches to be married in.

7 churches later, we found the perfect church for her; long aisle way, stained windows and all.

We have our first meeting in June and setup our first planning meeting on July 7th at 5pm.

We show up that day and find out that the Father and the Coordinator aren't even there. They went to a funeral and didn't tell us about it or cancel our appointment.

One week later we recieved an email to reschedule for August 11th at 4pm, a date that the church picked.

This time we get an email at 10am the day of that there is another funeral that they have to attend and will need to reschedule.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

At this point I so against a catholic wedding since I am not Catholic, but I decided that I will give them one more shot for DF.

Finally we had our first "offical" meeting on August 25th.

The Father had no problems with us living together, just that we need to attend the marriage encounter weekend and that we each get a copy of our baptismism records.

 

[Tiggerific04]

Has anyone looked into having an Old Catholic priest marry them? From what I've read, they believe almost all the same things as Roman Catholic (except for the Pope, celibacy, and something else I can't remember right now) and all of their sacraments have to be accepted by the RC Church. I found this church in Orlando and emailed the priest but haven't heard anything back: www.saintthomasmorechurch.com/. I'm not sure it would work for us anyway since he would be counted as a guest and we already have exactly 18 guests. Just thought someone else might be interested