marriage question....

[sweetshay]

I am Lutheran.
Michael is Catholic.

What would we have to do to get married in a Catholic church? What would we have to do to get married in a Lutheran church?

Anyone know?

Comments

[theblondechika]

I think to get married in the Catholic church you would have to take classes and get paperwork from your church saying that you were baptized in the Lutheran Church. Don't quote me on this though...I'm really not sure.

For the Lutheran church...you would turn in the papers saying you were baptized Lutheran to the Catholic church. Then they send the papers off to like the pope or something to get a dispensation. Once that comes through you can get going. We had to take 2 pre-marriage classes and that was about it. It was REALLY easy to get married in the Lutheran church.

[dec_29_2006]

most cahtolic churches will allow you to get married there if at least 1 of you are catholic....some churches that are more strict, both people need to be catholic. They will need all your paperwork, birth certificates (copy from hospital), babtismal certificate from where you were babtised, communion and confirmation certificates as well...from those places that were recieved those sacraments. They need those from both people....Michael would just give whatever he has and went through, through the Luteran church. I believe it would be vice versa for the Lutehran church as said above.

We got married in a cahtolic church, but we were both catholic.
Also to get married in a catholic church, you have to go throguh pre cana classes in order to get married there which also includes meeting with a sponsor couple and going through paperwork and a class and u get a certification in it and then you give that to the priest.
You usually do this at least 6 month prior to the wedding bc it does take a while.

[dec_29_2006]

i went you would just give whatever you went thorugh , thtough the luteran chruch (not michael)

[dec_29_2006]

and by went and i meant....meant

man i suck today

[theblondechika]

When we did it, all I had to give was a letter from my church (Lutheran) to Chris' church (Catholic) saying the date I was baptized. I didn't have to give a birth certificate, confirmation, or communion. Maybe it's different for every church?

[greeneyedsiren]

I am Cahtolic - Mike is Lutheran. We got married in my Catholic church. In order to do so, Mike had to provide a copy of his baptismal & confirmation certificates. We also had an intial meeting w/the priest, then we had to take a FOCUS test & an Engaged Encounter weekend. While it sounds like a lot & overwhelming, after it was all done we felt like we both got so much out of it

[greeneyedsiren]

Oh & one more quick thing I forgot to add. Since I was a Catholic marrying a non-Catholic, we were allowed to have the ceremony of course, but not the mass (which is what you hear about when you hear about the long hour plus Catholic weddings). Had he been Catholic, then we would have had the mass.

Our ceremony was about 30 minutes, and I swear half of that was my wedding party walking in & out! ;)

marriage question....

[anonymous]

I was raised Episcopalian. I left the Episcopal church when I was 17 years old. I've been non-denominational oneness pentecostal since. My second wife is Filipino, and our marriage took place in the Philippines, in a Catholic church. I showed the priest my baptismal and confirmation documents, and that was it. All they care abuot is what's on a piece of paper. There's not much difference between Episcopal and Catholic doctrine. There is quite a difference between Lutheran and Catholic doctrine. Martin Luther was the leader of the first protestant movement. Lutheran people were not very popular with the Catholic church back then. In fact, many of them were persecuted, burned at the stake, etc. It may be easier to get married in a Lutheran church. Maybe you have solved the problem by now.