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I'm getting married in PA and I spoke to the priest in the church I'm getting married in first. We had an initial meeting with him and set a tentative date. Although we are getting married in PA, we live in VA and must compete the marriage prep requirements in our home parish. So we are doing counseling, a pre-cana thing, etc through our church in VA. Our home parish will compile all of our paperwork and then send a letter to the church in PA saying that we can get married (actually I think it might go from the church in VA to the VA bishop to the PA bishop then to the PA church). So my priest in VA has suggested we get everything completed 6 weeks prior to the wedding to make sure all paperwork arrives in time.
We wont have to complete any additional requirements in PA (and I think this is nomal). The details as far as song selection and readings will be chosen with the church in PA. So I'm sure I will have to have a couple more meetings with the priest and music coordinator up there.
I'm not sure how they would handle getting married first in a civil ceremony and then in the church.
Hi - I'm planning a wedding long distance. I live in Ireland and I'm from Connecticut, USA. We're getting married in CT in my home parish in April. Because it's the parish I've belonged to since I was born and my family are active in the parish it's hasn't been much of an issue. We have already done a marriage prep class and the priest who is marrying us has the certificate from it. We also completed the pre-marriage inventory (a list of questions basically about being free to marry and what parish is our home parish etc...) and that will be filed with my church at home when we get married (as far as I understand)
If I were in your position I would just contact the parish and see what's required - they'll want your baptismal record, confirmation record and a letter from your home parish stating that you're in good standing with the Church and that you're free to marry. (I think that's all they'll need).
Getting married in advance for legal purposes isn't an issue for us so I don't know if the Church will have a problem with it or require any other information. Hopefully someone else here will know!
Hope I've been of some help!
Good luck!
we contacted our destination church first to set the date through the church admin. the destination church will send you their requirements, including what they require from your parish. our churches were both in the same state, but different dioceses, and their requirements were the same as each other's, but not the same as other posters' here. we did all our prep interviews and counseling, precana, and paperwork with our parish, who collects all docs and sends to your parish's diocese, who then sends it to your destination church. we met our officiant at the destination church just once, about a month before the wedding. we sent our order of service selections to the destination church admin and it was pretty straight forward. in all honesty, one church isn't going to battle the other over wedding details, the most important thing is to complete all the paperwork. for us, both churches made our options clear and said the final decisions were completely up to us, although both churches are on the liberal side.
we had to provide a baptismal record, letters of freedom to marry, completion of a counseling survey, completion of precana, completion of interview with parish priest as he is the one officially preparing you for marriage, state marriage license, and $$$.
(my sister got married at our childhood parish and didn't have nearly the same requirements, maybe because the priest knew our family.)
tell your parish priest, who is preparing you, that you plan to legally marry prior to the church ceremony, and he will most likely give you a form. don't worry, it's all been done before because they asked us in our interview. it didn't apply to us, but i'm sure it's just paperwork. just an easy phone call to your parish admin or priest.
I don't think they will marry you again if you are already legally married. I believe it is referred to as blessing the marriage, instead of performing a new one. Your local priest should be able to answer this for you. There was a thread on here a few days ago about a couple who wanted an outdoor wedding, and they needed to do their actual Catholic ceremony first.
Did anyone have trouble getting the letter that gives permission of the home church to the destination church? Our priest looked at us like we had two heads. And then proceeded to say that he's never had a destination wedding before.
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Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone here has ever planned a Catholic wedding long distance. Did you talk to the priest at the parish you want to get married in about wedding details and do the Pre-Cana and other paperwork in your parish? Do both parishes have a say?I plan on contacting the parish we'd like to get married in but just wondering if anyone had any other advice on it.
Because I plan on moving with BF to the US (I'm Canadian), we have to get married first legally. Has anyone else got married legally first and then in church?
Thanks!