Apparently since my FI and I don't live in our old town anymore, in order to get married at that parish (where our families still attend), we have to register at a Church up here, meet with a priest sometime during the week (we both work 50-55 hours per week), and get him to approve our paperwork, which then gets faxed to the home parish, which should contact us, and THEN we can book a date.
I wish we were any other Christian denomination, so we could just pay the "donation" and book a date ASAP. This is what I get for taking two months after getting engaged to even ask what the procedure is...