Brides getting married in the Catholic Church...

April_Luv Posted: Jan 03, 2010 11:48 AM

Brides getting married in the Catholic Church...

I booked my church on Friday and we decided to have the full mass for the ceremony, which is about a little under an hour long oppose to the regular marriage ceremony which is 20 mins long...

What did you choose? Full mass or the regular ceremony?

AngnShaun Posted: Jan 03, 2010 11:51 AM

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as of right now were doing a full mass...

StaceyWill Posted: Jan 03, 2010 11:57 AM

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We're doing a full mass...our priest said it would run like 40 minutes

KrisD72310 Posted: Jan 03, 2010 12:01 PM

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We're doing a full mass. It was important to my mom and grandma since it's a sacrament and it was important to me too since it really is the whole reason for the party afterward.

geegee827 Posted: Jan 03, 2010 12:26 PM

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We just did the ceremony. It still ran about 30-40 minutes.

JenBill61210 Posted: Jan 03, 2010 12:32 PM

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just the ceremony

RitasEngaged Posted: Jan 03, 2010 12:33 PM

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we are doing just a ceremony but really the only difference is communion

my priest said the ceremony will take 45 minutes

Lsorrent Posted: Jan 03, 2010 12:55 PM

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We're just doing a ceremony. FH's family is Episcopal, and half of my family has been divorced. So no one would be able to receive communion!

NewYorker09 Posted: Jan 03, 2010 12:57 PM

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We're doing the full Mass, especially since we're getting married on a Sunday. My family much prefers the full Mass and would be kinda upset if we didn't do it. Now that I'm hearing he time difference isn't even that big I'd prob just go with the full Mass regardless.

RitasEngaged Posted: Jan 03, 2010 12:59 PM

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Posted by Lsorrent

We're just doing a ceremony. FH's family is Episcopal, and half of my family has been divorced. So no one would be able to receive communion!

fh is the same to - so he thinks getting married in a church is torture as it is

Christine N Ralph Posted: Jan 03, 2010 01:20 PM

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We are doing the full mass

latinaj Posted: Jan 03, 2010 01:22 PM

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full mass

Debrian2009 Posted: Jan 03, 2010 01:41 PM

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We did the full mass as well.

kat2010 Posted: Jan 03, 2010 02:38 PM

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full mass

FutureJOC Posted: Jan 03, 2010 02:39 PM

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as it stands now we are going to have a full mass... I think my grandma's my cringe if I have only a ceremony.

meganbrandon Posted: Jan 03, 2010 02:42 PM

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we're just doing the ceremony because FH is baptist so thats what my priest recommended!

cavvento Posted: Jan 03, 2010 04:05 PM

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We are doing a ceremony. People think a mass is somehow more religious, but the sacrament of marriage doesn't require a mass, and the mass only became a trend in the 1970's! I just think a mass could get too long for people sitting there, esp. if you may have a good number of non-catholics in the crowd. I also really like the deacon at my church and would prefer for him to do everything than split the duties with one of the priests (which is necessary for mass).

LaBellaVita622 Posted: Jan 03, 2010 05:31 PM

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I would have chosen full mass since I went to Catholic School my whole life, but FH's parents converted when he was younger to Christian. As someone also stated, the preist recommended that we not have a mass out of respect for them. But our ceremony will be 45 mins.

MrsDtoBe09 Posted: Jan 03, 2010 05:39 PM

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We did just the ceremony for a few reasons. One of the biggest reasons was that you'd be surprised how many people have no clue what to do or say at a mass...to the point where I would feel embarrassed if my priest had to tell everyone, 'please sit,' and 'please stand.' Also, a lot of non-Catholic guests may not realize that they should not receive communion and get up for it and to me that's just wrong.

Do you regularly attend church that it's so important to you? Do you feel as though your guests are all practicing Catholics that will know what to do?