I am having a pretty easy time with wedding planning (the date is Nov 9 2013) I am ahead of schedule on everything so that this summer I can just relax and enjoy the last few months of single girl-dom!
I am Catholic. Born and raised. My fiance and I have strict Catholic families and we have always planned on having a church wedding. We began the processes with our priest 8 months before the wedding date instead of the sugguested 6 months.
We have both received all the sacraments and have never been married before so I am pretty confident that I wouldn't have to worry about the church aspect especially since they are providing a coordinator.
Getting to my point...dealing with our church has been the MOST difficult part of it all. Mainly the priest assigned to our wedding. This is my normal parish that I have attended for 20+ years and I am feeling so ignored! I have questions about the mass including specific traditions that i want to include and they refuse to follow up with me. I have left emails, voicemails, and hand written notes. The priest shows up late to our meetings, rushes us, and then cuts our time together short.
The procedure for a catholic wedding requires us to go to retreats and to sign a lot of paperwork. I wish that the priest was better at being on task and showing as much attention to our wedding as we are! Everytime I call and actually get to speak to him he asks me "When Is your wedding? Well, you have SO much time still" This angers me because just because my wedding is in Nov and not June doesnt mean I have no right to ask questions!
It has been announced that this priest has been assigned to a new parish and will be leaving and will actually NOT be performing at our ceremony but i guess I have to tough it out and see who the new pastor in his place will be.
Please calm my mind and assure me I am not a Bridezilla!