Interfaith Wedding Ceremony ideas

twoinanddone
Mon, 19 Sep 2022 06:28:03 +0000

Some priest will travel to another church to perform a wedding, but most require the venue to be a church. My sister was married by a priest at the chapel at U of Denver, originally a Methodist school (no mass that I can remember). A friend was married in the Episcopal cathedral with both Episcopal and catholic priests on the alter, and a mass was said. A friend was married in a catholic church by the president of Regis University, a Jesuit priest.

There aren’t many options for getting married outside by a priest in our area. There is the grotto at Our Lady of Lourdes, but really, it is like getting married on a sidewalk and not private at all - just get married in the church which is 20 feet away!

My parent had mixed marriage in 1954, she catholic and he (gasp) Episcopalian. They had to get married outside the alter, no non-catholics in the wedding party, no mass. My mother’s family wasn’t happy because she was not marrying a catholic. My father’s mother almost had a stroke just thinking about his being kidnapped by Rome.

I worked for a judge who stopped doing weddings when he was promoted to district judge (usually county judges do them, unless for friends or family). He was a very religious person and was uncomfortable doing them because many people wanted a civil wedding with a lot of religion thrown in, even though there weren’t religious and ‘didn’t believe’. He just didn’t want to do the religious aspects.