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pre marrige course

  • 11-05-2013 12:21am
    #1
    xxbrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭


    Hi. anyone know if your not getting married in church do you need to do a course (getting married in city hall in nyc)


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  • #2
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    No, it's only a requirement if you're getting married in a church.


  • #3
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,902 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    I got married in a church and i didn't do the pre marriage course.

    Didn't want to waste my time listening to a priest/other telling me how to live with a woman - just wondering what experience do they have?


  • #4
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    mfceiling wrote: »
    I got married in a church and i didn't do the pre marriage course.

    Didn't want to waste my time listening to a priest/other telling me how to live with a woman - just wondering what experience do they have?

    Presits don't do the course. It's usually lay people who I believe in the vast majority of cases are married


  • #5
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,902 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    godtabh wrote: »
    Presits don't do the course. It's usually lay people who I believe in the vast majority of cases are married

    Priest told me that it wasn't necessary - he also told me it would be done by the parish priest of the area - not for me.

    Really wonder what benefit it is?


  • #6
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    xxbrady wrote: »
    Hi. anyone know if your not getting married in church do you need to do a course (getting married in city hall in nyc)

    No, you don't need to do a pre marriage course. It only applies if you are getting married in most Catholic churches in Ireland. Not all priests insist on it, but some are die hard, and won't let you get married without it.


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  • #7
    Dortilolma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 255 ✭✭Dortilolma


    You don't need to to do the pre-marriage course but to be honest I quite liked the idea. We're doing a civil ceremony, so me and himself sat down one evening and went through these questions.

    I felt it was worth doing - we got talking about things in depth that we'd only brushed over in the past.


  • #8
    realtabui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭realtabui


    I assumed you had to do the course if your getting married in a church! Personally I would prefer not to do it as its only a money racket to me...must find out if my priest wants us to do it or not!


  • #9
    BizzyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    Dortilolma wrote: »
    You don't need to to do the pre-marriage course but to be honest I quite liked the idea. We're doing a civil ceremony, so me and himself sat down one evening and went through these questions.

    I felt it was worth doing - we got talking about things in depth that we'd only brushed over in the past.

    A lot of those questions are ridiculous.

    Are they assuming these people have just met?
    Almost all of them would be covered already if the couple live together...


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