Please help!

Natalie3182

I am curious how this is going to work. A family emergency has severely changed our wedding plans. We have to move our wedding way up. Unfortunately, however, my church is booked until February 20th, which is my date. Is it bad to change churches? I assume it is something I will have to discuss with my priest, but I am just curious if anyone else has been through this and what they decided to do. TIA!

masked_rose86

I mean it isn't necessarily bad to change churches.......whether or not they will let you get married without having been a parishioner and/or done marriage prep there, gets a little tricky.  It would take the priest at the new church talking to you about your situation as well may require intervention by your old priest.  Is your church truely booked up even on a Thursday or a Friday?  While you might not have as many people come at least you would be married!

blackfire5th

I don't think it is bad. If you are still in the same diocese, it will be very easy to transfer your marriage prep. We live in WA, but were getting married in our hometown in CO. Our WA priest had to send everything to Spokane, then to Denver, and then to our Church. I took about 3 weeks for everything to go through. To help make the CO priest feel sercure, we made a photocopy of everything and sent it directly to him incase something happened in all the transfering. I would also double check with the new church about their marriage prep and if they require you to do anything more.

Equine Osmosis

From my understanding, it doesn't really matter which church you get married in as long as you have some sort of official marriage prep. We were looking into several different churches in my area trying to coordinate venues and they all didn't care where we had our marriage prep done as long as we had final approval from our parish (not like we were moving to try to get out of some requirement). We even looked into doing a destination wedding in Hawaii and the diocese there said the same thing- as long as you have pre cana and approval from your parish. Obviously double check with the new church, but it shouldn't be a major deal as long as they have room. Good luck! Btw- I get the booked up thing! My parish *only* does weddings in 2 time slots on Saturdays. We considered moving parishes to have weekday wedding to cut other expenses but eventually decided against it. Just wondering but your new date is Feb 20? I'm in Feb as well but I couldn't book that late in the month because they won't do weddings during lent and Ash Weds is on the 17th. Is your church allowing you?