So FI and I are 'good' friends with a guy who is being ordained in 2 weeks. I didn't want a random celebrating our Wedding so I thought it would be great to ask him. We also have a few other priests who FI is close with that we have asked to concelebrate.
Now, the future-priest we are asking to come in for the wedding lives what I think is like a 24 hour drive from where are going to be getting married. So I was wondering, since we are asking him to come and celebrate, do we pay for him to fly in? or how is that done? I thought about if we weren't going to ask him to celebrate, would we still invite him? I said no, cause of how big the wedding already is. That makes me feel like we should at least offer to help pay for his flight. The pastor of the parish where we are getting married has already offered the rectory for the priests to stay at so housing is taken care of.
Does anyone have thoughts on this??