Wedding during lent

loriexxx

Does anyone know if there would be an issue getting married during lent in a Catholic Church. Planning on getting married during lent next year and while we have not had a meeting with the priest yet my dad was talking to him and he asked if the date is during lent. Starting to panic!

com1

Shouldn't be a problem. From what i remember (being a complete heathen and it being 7 years ago) there were just a few bits of the mass that were different

Addle

I've two church weddings locally this lent in a parish that doesn't allow Sunday weddings so there must not be an issue with weddings during lent.

Cakerbaker

I got married during lent a few years ago and it was no problem with the priest. He didn't even mention it.

tiny timy

Depends on the priest. Our priest is dead on and has no problem with things. I know of another lad that could do with a bit of a wake up call. He'd do nothing outside of the lines.

Best thing is to go talk to your priest.

Big Bag of Chips

If you want a particular church, and a particular priest and the priest has already mentioned lent then the first thing you need to do before planning anything else is speak to the priest.

jayobray

Some parishes may not allow the church to be decorated during Lent, and it is up to the local priest. Easter weekend is almost always a no go too.

CIARAN_BOYLE

A lot of churches run extra masses during lent. So if they have a 10am mass you can't get married at 10am.

So it's probably just a matter of lining up the schedules.

jayobray wrote: »

Some parishes may not allow the church to be decorated during Lent, and it is up to the local priest. Easter weekend is almost always a no go too.

Or even if they do allow it the alter cloth may need to remain purple.

Or if they allow decorations you may need to take down before and put back up after Lenten decorations.

Toots

Depends on the church AFAIK. My sister in law got married during lent, but they ended up going to a different church than they'd originally planned because their local priest didn't say "no" but basically said they'd encourage them to choose a different date. They wouldn't have been allowed to decorate the church or anything like that, and I think there were restrictions on what hymns etc could be used.

They went with another church nearby and the priest had no problem doing it, the only condition was that if they were putting flowers/decorations in the church, they needed to wait until after the morning mass to put them in (as opposed to doing it the night before or early that morning) and they had to be taken out after the ceremony.

freshpopcorn

You'd be fine apart from Holy week I'd say! I've heard of loads of weddings during Lent!

gutenberg

It really does depend on the priest. My cousin & his fiancée wanted to get married during Lent, their parish priest flat out refused them! Unfortunately it basically caused their plans to fall apart completely after that... But then I have also attended Catholic weddings elsewhere during Lent, so it really is dependent on your parish and the priest.