Catholic wedding on a Sunday?

To the best of my knowledge there is no Church law prohibiting a marriage on a Sunday.

However Sundays are already the busiest day of the week for parishes and especially overworked priests. Therefore most parishes do not regularly schedule weddings on Sundays.

An interesting compromise might be if you offer to have your marriage during the last regularly scheduled Sunday Mass and share your special event with the entire parish (but, of course, not the reception).

With love in Christ.

<<Catholic wedding on a Sunday? We have been told that it is not possible and that it would set an "unwanted precedent" . I don't understand why this would be, the church holds other events like christenings on Sundays.>>

Christenings are "public" Sacraments, in that they can be performed in front of the congregation. Wedding attendees are, typically, by invitation only. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that, on Sunday, the Church is typically, being used for a number of weekly Masses.

It takes time to prep the Church for Masses, and prep time for a wedding is much, much, longer! Don't even think of combining Sunday Masses with weddings - talk about a bad precedent!

<<And besides, isn't the church suppose to try to accomodate it's parishioners?>>

It all depends on what you mean by "accomodate". If the above is such an example, I have to answer with an emphatic NO.

<<We aren't trying to be difficult, it's just that Sunday is the only day that works for us.>>

There's the problem. . . Rather than think so much about what works for you (an inherently selfish attitude), consider what works best for everyone else.

We must conform ourselves to the Church, not the other way around. If you cannot understand why, well, that will give you something theological to contemplate.

My cousin and his wife got married on a Sunday in a Catholic church. There is no hard and fast rule against a Catholic wedding on a Sunday. The most likely explanation is that the church and the priest(s) are otherwise occupied with regular Sunday masses.

It's no big deal, it is not the sabbath anyway! The catholic church MADE sunday the sabbath. God still has a covenant from the 10 Commandments that goes from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown.

"We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, 1957, pg 50.

"Sunday is our mark of authority...The Church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact." Catholic Record, September 1, 1923.

Speaking of the Catholic Church which is often referred to as she, "She took the Pagan Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday... and thus the pagan Sunday dedicated to Balder became the Christian Sunday dedicated to Jesus." Catholic World, March, 1894, pg 809). Incidentally, Balder is the Babylonian god, Baal.

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act, and the act isa mark of her ecclesiastical power." Faith of our Fathers, Cardinal Gibbons.

"The Bible says remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath Day. The Catholic Church says NO! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo the entire civilized world bows downin reverent obedienceto the command of the holy Catholic church." Father Enright, American Sentinel, June 1893.

"Sunday is a Catholic institution, and is claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles. From the beginning to the end of Scripture, there is not a single passage which warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first." Catholic Press (Sydney) August 25, 1900.

"You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce religious observance of Saturday." James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers, Pg 89.

"If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday, they are following a law of the Catholic Church." Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter dated February 10, 1920.

"Protestantism in discarding the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, has no good reasons for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath." John Gilmary Shea, American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.

For such a major event, I'm not surprised they would discourange you from using a Sunday. Quite honestly I doubt any of your guests would want to attend on that day either.