HELP! Does this sound right?

I agree with all the brides here...this is not right. Call the diocese and report him....did you pay him anything besides this fee yet? If you did, I would demand your money back and get another officiant...I'm so sorry, I don't want to upset you ....but I don't trust him to do the right thing if he did this to you now!!!!

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Posted by MakingofaMulligan

Catholic priests are NOT supposed to peform sacrement of marriage outside a church. I would def call the Diocese!


Edited - The Catholic Answer actually has NO affliation with the Catholic Church. So they apparently can charge whatever they like.

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He is most likely a 'reformed catholic church' priest. I looked into having a catholic priest do my ceremony at the fox hollow (because fh isn't very religious and didn't want to have it in a church) and was told that no roman catholic priest can do a marriage outside of a church. so, calling the diocese will probably do nothing - they have no control over 'reformed' or 'old catholic church' priests.

that being said - i would make sure that this priest is on the up and up with whatever org he is from. did he say he was roman catholic? did he say it would be recognized by the ROMAN catholic church? i've never heard a fee and I would demand the money back.

sorry hon