Posting Banns

u205353

Are any of you posting banns before the wedding? I want to and I thought it was required...but I guess so much anymore it's not. My next question is we're getting married at FI's church using my priest...so do we post banns at one church or both?

Calypso1977

you dont post the banns, the church does. our church runs them for three weeks leading up to teh wedding. in the old days, they were posted at both the brides adn the groom's parishes.  ours were only posted at our parish that we attend together.

ring_pop

I would have liked to; it would have saved us the cost of a marriage license. But our priest told us it would be easier and safer to just get the marriage license. Apparently some churches in my archdiocese have had some issues with banns in the past and gotten reprimanded by the city for it.

ffmaid

In my parish (where we got married)it was required to have them posted in the bullitin so we did so. We also need  a marriage liscence. I did not know that this was optional anywhere. I have always seen them.

Calypso1977

ring pop, can you explain please??  i am not understanding how the Banns of the Church are related in any way to the license that the state requires.

ring_pop

Calypso - in Ontario, if you provide proof of the issuance of banns, they waive the marriage license fee. You do still get a license though. Perhaps I didn't phrase it correctly. Not sure if any similar rules exist for other religious denominations.

u205353

When I mentioned it to the priest he was like well...sure we can do that. All the different parishes I grew up in always posted them. Granted my wedding is the first in the church in a few years but still...that hasn't changed

GulfCoaster

Ours were printed in the bulletin for the three weeks prior to our wedding.  As far as I know, they were only printed at my parish (which is where we were getting married).  I was under the impression that they were required.

Calypso1977

ringpop, interesting.

ootmother2

none were posted as neither the bride nor the groom lived in the area of the church

ootmother2

lolperhaps the church did post the banns and we just didn't see them because we were located out of town

blackfire5th

What's a Bann?

chicagobride_07

They have them in our church bulletin every week.

u205353

It just surprised me that it's not that common any more. Both FI and I always saw them posted. It was also told to me that too it was letting the congregation know of the up coming wedding because technically you don't have to be invited to the mass to attended because it is a community event. I do wonder if any strange old ladies will crash...