Three tips before you get started
1. Getting engaged
2. Contacting your parish
3. Preparing for a lifelong marriage
4. Setting the date of your wedding
5. Choosing the form of your wedding
6. Choosing Scripture readings
7. Choosing music
8. Choosing vows
9. Choosing roles for family and friends
10. Choosing other liturgical elements
11. Creating a program for your guests
12. Dealing with the details
13. After the wedding
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Can we have our wedding someplace other than a church building?
Can we use popular, non-religious music in our wedding?
What are the rules and requirements for a valid Catholic wedding?
How long do we have to wait before we can be married in the Catholic Church?
If one of us is Catholic and one is not, what are our wedding ceremony options?
Will the Catholic Church recognize the marriage of a Catholic to a baptized Christian of another faith?
What days and times should we avoid scheduling our Catholic wedding?
Do we have to celebrate Mass during our Catholic wedding?
I am attending a Catholic wedding, but I am not Catholic. What can I expect?
Order of a Catholic wedding Mass
Order of a Catholic wedding outside Mass
Catholic wedding readings
Catholic wedding vows
Catholic wedding music
Catholic wedding program
Catholic wedding procession
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