Catholic Churches in Austin

Re: Catholic Churches in Austin

• akg0053 member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  My advice would be to first establish yourselves at a parish where you live. Once you do that, you can get permission from your priest at your home parish to have your wedding in Austin.

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• garzal member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  I agree with akg0053's post.  All of the churches we looked at (in Central & South Austin) required that either one or both of us be parishoners of the church or of another one in the area.  I lived in San Marcos & attended St. John's before moving to Austin but never became a parishoner.  So, we had to start from the beginning in Austin, register as parishoners at my new church & wait 3 months before we were able to schedule an appointment with our church's marriage preparation contact person.  We're very lucky that we started looking early on :-)
  
  St. Mary's Cathedral downtown is a beautiful church and I would've loved to have had our mass there.  But, we had already become parishoners at our church and  the fee for non-parishoners at St. Mary's is pretty hefty compared to other churches ($1000 plus needing to get your own priest to offer the mass because their priests only officiate wedding masses for parishoners).  
  Hope this helps & good luck on finding a church for your mass.

  

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  My friend got married at St. John Vianney in Round Rock.  Very pretty church.  I don't recall if they had to attend the church (if they did, it must have only been a few times), but they did have to meet with the priest a few times for counseling.
  
  The price must have not been much b/c they went there after another church was charging ridonculous fees.
  
  

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• stacylhaustin member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Hi,
  
  We are getting married at St. Austin.  My fi is catholic, I am Methodist and he isn't a parishioner at this church.  We didn't have any problems booking them without being a parishioner, it is of course more expensive if you aren't and let me warn you that it is expensive.  I couldn't believe a church would charge so much but it is where he wanted to get married and maybe all catholic churches are more expensive than the Methodist churches I had looked at.
  
  It is a beautiful church inside and the Priest is great.
  
  Good luck

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