A highly recommended resource for planning a Catholic Marriage ceremony is Together For Life. The priest may give you a hard copy of this booklet, or you may click here to use the on-line version. This is an invaluable resource for the planning!
Weddings are special and joyful times for brides and grooms, for their families and for the parish community. The new beginning, the love, the promise and the hope that weddings bring make their celebration a special and grace-filled time in our lives.
The Church welcomes its members to celebrate and solemnize their weddings in the context of our prayer as Christians. Indeed, so important is marriage in Christian life that it is called a sacrament.
Great care is taken to see that the prayer for this special moment is reverent, graceful, beautiful, and open to the movement of God’s Spirit among us. Our celebration of the sacraments, marriage included, is always rooted in scripture so that we can be nourished and strengthened by God’s Word.
Always, we celebrate the sacraments as a community. We gather our brothers and sisters in faith and ask for their prayerful support. These celebrations are incomplete unless they are filled with song, with prayerful gestures, and with the silence in which we hear the voice of God.
You may a some dates in mind, but you should not reserve any reception halls or send out any announcements until after you meet with a priest.
The answer to this question is governed, in part, by the Code of Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Generally speaking, members of our parish may celebrate their wedding at St. George Catholic Church.
Roman Catholics who live within the bounds of the parish but who have no formal relationship with the parish community may speak to someone on the parish staff about establishing a relationship with the parish with an eye toward celebrating a wedding in the future.
Many studies have been conducted on marriage preparation. These studies show that couples who have a truly Christian idea of marriage, are actively practicing their faith, are supporting their church, and actually pray together, have an extremely low divorce rate. Our marriage preparation process is designed to help you have that kind of marriage.