Catholic Civil Ceremony???

misssaucie

Hi can anyone shed some light on a situation for me please my fiancé and I both Catholic but neither of us or either sets of parents would be regular Mass goers. We are the last of our friends to be married and as it stands, in the past 3 years we've been to about 26 Weddings!!! We are looking at doing a Marquee on site at a well known hotel and they also have a license for Civil Ceremony's. So we are thinking of doing something a little different and getting married in a civil ceremony in a beautifully decorated room in the hotel with all our guests. The thing is can a priest officiate or will we have to have a registry office marraige before hand? Neither of us have been married before so it's not as though we have no other choice but to have a civil ceremony. I'd just love a ceremony outside the confines of an actual Church. But also I would love to have our local Priest marry us. So confused!

Toots

Once the priest is on the register of solemnisers, then he can marry you in the hotel and it will be legal. The problem you might have is getting a priest to do a civil service outside the church.

Seoid

Another option is that you can have a civil ceremony and a blessing from the priest afterwards - I've seen this done before. I think the best thing to do would be to talk to your local priest as soon as possible and see what he says.

Jellyjelly

hey

Why don't you have a registrar attend the venue i.e the hotel have a civil ceremony (legal part) and have your local priest do a blessing straight after the registrar has finished there part. You get the legal part done by the state, and your not putting your local priest under pressure (as in from the church that he's not marrying you in the hotel)

J:)

bensoneb

I had a really beautiful ceremony last year at my venue carried out by the Unitarian Church. They are solemnisers so the civil part is included but you can also make what you want out the the spiritual side of the ceremony. We are Catholic non-mass people so our ceremony was spiritual rather than religious for the sake of it. If you want more details on this, let me know.

Opus_One

bensoneb wrote: »

I had a really beautiful ceremony last year at my venue carried out by the Unitarian Church. They are solemnisers so the civil part is included but you can also make what you want out the the spiritual side of the ceremony. We are Catholic non-mass people so our ceremony was spiritual rather than religious for the sake of it. If you want more details on this, let me know.

Hi bensoneb, I'd really appreciate if you could send me some info on the Unitarian ceremony you had. I've PM'd you my details.

bensoneb

Hi Opus One, just pm'ed you the info.