ok so my partner was brought up catholic and even though he's not a practising catholic he'd till like to get married in his church seen as they have a long family history with this church, which is fine by me as i'm church of england and i don't want to get married unless its in a church. I was looking up whether they would marry us and it was saying how the priest can turn you away if you've been living together unmarried, well thats me truely buggered as we have a two year old (oops) 1. do they actually do this now days and 2.what preparation would i have to do to marry i know going mass is a condition but sitting in church with a terrible toddler is going to be awful and not going to do my chances any favours when he starts going mad. help its really bothering me, its christ church in eltham anyone been married here or heard of it before. hufff!!!!
CommentAuthorSuzie Bear
Well with me and Craig - I'm the catholic with a long family history and he is a protestant. I go to church anyway but he has had to join me each week. They are marrying us no problem and we live together. Most churches have a Sunday school where the children can go and colour in and learn children hymns with other kids. We are classed as having an interfaith marriage and I had to sign a form with the priest to declare that our children would be raised catholic (might not be what u want to hear). They also consider whether the non catholic has been baptised. The priest would also take into account which boundary u live in. Do u live in the parish? Just some things to consider hunny x
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
I'd agree - totally depends on the Priest. A friend of mine (a few years ago) was getting married - she's catholic, as are her family and attended regularly. She and her partner had a 2 year old boy and the Priest refusted to marry them, but they comprimised and had a reg office wedding on the Friday and a big Church blessing on the Saturday, which everyone was invited too (only close friends and family were invited to the reg office). Hx
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CommentAuthorlisaw
My partner is a catholic and im CoE, we are getting married in a catholic church and to be honest we only went to mass a few times before h2b changed jobs which means he works Thu, fri, sat, sun night. We have a 2 year old and a 1 year old and when we did go I usually had to take the kids to the park next door as they were restless and we kept getting looks of people. The Father of the church does comment every time we have a meeting that he wants to see more of us, which would be fine if both of us went or they had a Sunday school, but ultimately he is fine with us not being practising Catholics.
CommentAuthorblue_eyes1
thats what i thought trust my fiance to have a strict sounding priest, my son's clingy when he doesn't know people so i don't think he'll go sunday church. i'm much more spirtual than my partner so it'll definately be in a church. oh dear looks like i'm going to have to face this priest myself, dosen't help that i get tongue tied and shy haha thanks peeps xx
