Catholic Wedding Mass

Hi Ladies

So far I have selected two readers......How many other 'jobs' do I have to fulfill? Someone told me another person to read the Prayer of the Faithful and another person/people to bring up the gifts? Is that it? How many people do I need for the gifts?

Thanks In Advance!
Amanda

We didn't have a mass, our ceremony was interfaith.

But I have attended a lot of church weddings, and from what I remember that sounds right. I don't remember how many people brought up the gifts, but I think its usually two???

If you send an FM to donegal419, you might get the info you are looking for. She is very involved in her church, and very knowledgeable about things relating to Mass.

I did:

2 readers (first readong and second reading)

1 reader for the Prayer of the Faithful (although i've seen people do 2, if you really want to include more and they just alternate from petition to petition).

you need at least 2 people for the gifts...but some do 3 or 4 as they have to bring up the cannisters with the hosts as well as the glass containers with the water and wine....depending on how big they are, you might want three people just in case... you don't want anyone dropping anything!!!. I did 4, we had both sets of godparents. (2 brought up the hosts and 2 brought up the water and wine.)

i also included others doing music (cantor was a friend, choir was a friend, organist was a friend)

ETA: We also had 2 more friends participate as Eucharistic minsters... We had 2 priests do the hosts and the 2 friends did the wine. However, you can't just ask people to do this. To be a Eucharistic Minister, there is training involved that you go through at your parish, so it just so happened that 2 of our friends do this at their home churches, so it worked out nicely,

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Posted by donegal419

I did:

2 readers (first readong and second reading)

1 reader for the Prayer of the Faithful (although i've seen people do 2, if you really want to include more and they just alternate from petition to petition).

you need at least 2 people for the gifts...but some do 3 or 4 as they have to bring up the cannisters with the hosts as well as the glass containers with the water and wine....depending on how big they are, you might want three people just in case... you don't want anyone dropping anything!!!. I did 4, we had both sets of godparents. (2 brought up the hosts and 2 brought up the water and wine.)

i also included others doing music (cantor was a friend, choir was a friend, organist was a friend)

ETA: We also had 2 more friends participate as Eucharistic minsters... We had 2 priests do the hosts and the 2 friends did the wine. However, you can't just ask people to do this. To be a Eucharistic Minister, there is training involved that you go through at your parish, so it just so happened that 2 of our friends do this at their home churches, so it worked out nicely,

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I KNEW you'd have all the answers for her, Karen

Glad you found this thread so you could help out. I think you are more knowledgeable about this stuff than *most* on these boards ...