Hi ladies - I lurk but you all give such wonderful advice, I hope you can help me because I'm feeling totally lost.
Background - FI and I are being maurried in his family's church. However, the church gave the OK for us to be married there but for our priest from college Catholic Campus Ministry to do the ceremony, since we have a close relationship with him. Originally, the plan was to do pre-Cana with him, and the church okay'd that.
I spoke with our priest last week and it turns out that we can't do pre-cana with him after all - his home parish doesn't have any resources for pre-cana anymore (it's a small and overall elderly parish). He simply suggested we try local parishes (and warned us away from one that he said has had issues for other people he knows in the past).
So - any suggestions on what to do? Engaged Encounter? Through a parish? Which classes, if any, to take? I feel like the archdiocese page for our area is overwhelming, with lots of columns of options, and I'm not sure what would be best for us (young, living at our respective parents' homes, busy as first year teachers). Any advice? With under 10 months to the wedding we need to get started on this ...
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