Calling St Killian brides

I had originally met with Father Gus who i really cant understand that well because of his accent altough he is sweer and a friend suggested I contact Deacon Barone who i did and he isnt available.....now what!!!

Anyone have any suggestions for who I should have to my ceremony?

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we originally were going to have our ceremony there b/c it is a beautiful parish and my fiance belongs to it. we met with father gus also and just like yourself we couldnt understand anything he said! we had to switch church's for different reasons but if i were you i would try and switch priests. good luck!!!

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If you are talking about the St. Killian's in Farmingdale.... I would recommend talking with the new priest! I met him once during a funeral I directed there and he was GREAT! I think his name is Fr. Todd. He is very young, started there maybe in the beginning of the summer & he mentioned he would be stationed there for I believe the next five years.

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Yes i meant farmingdale, thanks for the info i will give him a call

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Talk to Msgr. Swaider he is doing our ceremony and is fabulous !! Father Todd seems like lots of fun too, though

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tarakinspa,
how did you approach Deacon Barone? i have already met fr Gus when we booked the ceremony and like you i could not understand him either. did you call deacon barone or someone suggested attending one of his masses. i heard fr todd is great too.

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We have Deacon Lou ( I don't know his last name)

While we are on the subject of St. kilians...... Is anyone doing the unity candle? Do they have a stand there (we saw one after a cermony was done but it was a mass) or do you have to get one? Also how does that work...who lights what? I'm very confused!! Also how are you girls going to decorate the church?

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Also I just want you girls to know that it's spelled Kilian's with one L. When i went to look at invites a girl almost put two L's on her invites. I actually kept writing Kiligan's. I don't know where i got that from...I wrote it on all my contracts!

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Really, oops didnt know that, thanks for the warning oct.

I couldnt get deacon barone and have yet to try for father todd but I gotta get to it huh.

No clue about the unity candle stand, if anyone finds out please post, i would love to know that I dont have to buy one.

Anyone getting married on a sunday btw?

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I'm on a sunday at 3:30. Actually we just found out this year that the town has the columbus fair all that weekend in the parking lot right next to the church and they close main st @ 5:00. I was really upset for about a week and then I got over it.

Is deacon Barone the same person as deacon lou?

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I got married there. Fr. Gentleman came back for our wedding, we love him and he is awesome!

The Pastor is great but is very tradiational rule wise.

Fr. Gus is very hard to understand and gives the same homily (about how the church is made of bricks... yadda yadda and so will be your marriage)
Plus Fr. Gus rewrote our names in the book wierd and we never knew until our first band was annouced that we techincally weren't in the book because he used white out on the other bride didn't let it dry then put our name. Also, when my friend Gina-Marie got married during her vows he called her Marie.

We had a mass, early in the mass both mom were invited to light our candles, and then later on we both lite our candles. It was amazing.

For flowers I had two baskets up front no need for more st. kilians is an amazing church. I also had simple pew bows on the pews.

You have to think about seating though, because the front row doesn't have a kneeler or anything. For that we put parents in the second row and bridal party on the side next to the altar. Just word to the wise also if your the next bride don't put your pew bows up too early. We had a gaudy wedding occur after ours and they put these insane horrid bows and they got in some of our pictures.

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oh also, note I was kinda ****y about this, but looking back it is safer, you should not walk down the stairs with your train out, I understood why after the fact as I was holding it.

We purchased our own stands and got an amazing candle. We went to illuminations (or something like that) in Merrick.

This picture is dark, taken by moh boyfriend but it might show pew bows.. I dunno.

I'm in Florida and my proofs are in NY

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i was just wondering if you guys were finding out about weddings on the sat before to maybe work out leaving flowers or splitting price?

BTW, your pics are gorgeous!

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tara, you home or work?

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Tara- I wanted to look into that--if you find out if St Kilians will give you the names of the other brides could you let me know? Thanks. Did you guys do pre cana yet?

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yes we are all done! it was actually pretty cool, we did the at home thing and the couples were so down to earth.