Going to the church tonight to set the date!

Going to the church tonight to set the date!

FH and I have our meeting with the priest tonight to set the date. We are getting married at St. Rose of Lima in Massapequa. I know the priest will talk to us together and seperate and ask how we met, why we are getting maried, religion of eachother and our parents religions, sacraments, if we are going into marriage freely and if we will raise our children as Catholics. Anything else I can expect?

Re: Going to the church tonight to set the date!

Re: Going to the church tonight to set the date!

Not sure what your living situation is but my FH and I live together. My priest asked for our home address so we gave separate addresses because as you know they frown upon living in sin.

Also don't tell them you have looked at reception halls.

He is going to ask if your are pregnant. Oh and my priest handed me a brochure about not using birth control. It is very interesting and if you have a cool priest the visit is very nice and you will feel good when you walk out. Enjoy!

Re: Going to the church tonight to set the date!

Ours was about 20 minutes long and most of it was paperwork. He didn't separate us or lecture us he just asked if we planned to have children and yes if we were going to have them christened and such in that church. And just confirmed that we had all of our sacraments and that we had not been married before and divorced.

Re: Going to the church tonight to set the date!

They separated us but the deacon didn't preach about anything. He basically just asked some pretty straightforward questions ( i do remember the ? about if we lived together) and since I am not a parishoner of his church, i had to give all my info about where i made my sacraments and what not. It was pretty quick and painless! Oh and good point about not talking about booking a reception hall already. Its better to say that you're booking the church first. Good luck!