What do I need to do to be married in a Catholic Church?

In Catholicism, Marriage is a sacrament. As such, you are required to be informed of the sacarment you are receiving before you take your marraige vows.

Precana is the Catholic Church's marriage education class. It is run by married Catholic couples who have been married for more than 20 years. They will give you a real life glimps into the troubles, challenges, joys and tactics for creating and sustaining a happy marriage.

What is usually involved is that you fill out a questionnaire that forces you both to examine your reasons for the marriage. Then, you will meet either once a week for four weeks for about 60 minutes with 3 other engaged couples - or - you can do it all in one Saturday at any archdiocese along with hundreds of other couples. The sessions go from boring to hilarious to thoughtful throughout.

You need to be married in a Catholic Church if you are Catholic, because first and foremost marriage is a sacrament. The legal aspect is secondary to the religious one. God created male and female, God created life, and it is before him that you make your vows.

The pre-cana classes are just to help prepare you for marriage. Since so many marriages end in divorce these days, you should take every opportunity to prepare as a blessing. Too many couples jump into marriage without much thought to the day to day issues they will be facing, pre-cana attempts to help with prepare you for that.

The paperwork asks you questions about your relationship, your views towards love, religion, children, money etc. and then your answers are compared to your fiance's answers to determine any possible trouble spots. They will then just talk to you about it and ask that you and your fiance make an effort to be aware and hopefully resolve and areas of concern.

Don't be nervous. It's all meant to help you have a loving and life long marriage.

I'm not baptised. I married in a Catholic church in Brisbane last year. All we had to do was a two day "Marriage Prepration" course, which was mainly talking through all our expectations of marriage and getting an insight into how each of us interact with our families. Not painful at all. And the Father marrying us had to put in for a 'dispensation' - basically an ok from higher up that I am allowed to get married in a Catholic church. Nothing nasty, nothing scary. I'm not religious at all, quite intolerable of all of it but I had no problems and I didn't hate any of it. If you're really worried sometimes you can call them or email and they answer any questions you have.

You do not have to become Catholic to be married in the Catholic church. Only one person has to be of the practicing faith. You will be taking a long questionaire, which churches of all denominations offer, that sees how you each feel about sensitive subjects that all married couples will run into. Then the pre-martial classes will help you to live the life of a Catholic in a marriage: finance, family planning, creed, etc. It helps a lot. There's nothing to be nervous about. It truly helps to get things out in the open. My fiance is Catholic and I'm not. After learning everything, I might just become one. It's a beautiful faith. Church history was a big flag for me. Anyways, congrats! You will be getting married in the house of the Lord as all Sacraments are done. God asks us to do things like baptism, holy communion, holy days in his house, so marriage is a big one as well. Remember, the first miracle done by Jesus was performed at a wedding. He turned water into wine.

Well, is either of you Catholic? I am marring a catholic man, and the only thing , and I am not Catholic,we had to do was fill out some paperwork, like our names, b-day, address, phone number, our parents names, our maid of honor, and best man, are we legally able to be married ( in other words have you been married before) do we promise to raise our children (if any) in the catholic religion. That was it. I was told that I would have to answer a ton of questions about why I wanna marry him, do I believe in god, blah, blah, blah...but no, I didn't. As for Pre-Cana...I have no Idea. sorry.

Samantha F is exactly write on so I won't bore you with the same answer. I only want to add to it and let you know that if you are going to be married in any church you will have to fill out the questions and do similar "counseling" . It actually is very wonderful and it helps you sort out your differences before you get married and with a "referee" (ha ha) involved. I was amazed at the amount of different answers my husband and I had but 12 years later we are still holding on :)

Congratulations and best wishes!!!

ahh welcome to my world!

Pre-cana is basically pre marital counceling.

At my church there are a series of weekly classes basically telling you how to be married, what to expect, talks on merging your lives together, relistic expectations of your relationship, and how to encorporate your religion into your relationship, the community and your relationship.....I actually thought it was interesting and very theraputic

(i was terrified, I didn't know what to expect and REALLY didn't want to go)

Don't worry about the questions

we got asked things like, are we planning on having children, how many, if we plan on using birth control, how well do we think we know eachother, about if we argue a lot....simple personal questions, nothing scary

honestly the worst part of it is dragging yourself there, everything else is a breeze and will probably make you feel much better about the marriage, get questions out that you might not have asked eachother or admitted out loud.

My parish offers a one whole day coarse for pre cana and weekly ones....we chose the whole day one to get it over with.

Don't be nervouse its just a process

good luck and congrats!

the male and female need to be catholic to get married in catholic church,I was protestant and I'm attending class to get converted to catholic for several reason,one of the reason is to be able to get married in catholic church.

I dint know if there will be 6 month counseling before you can get married,I supposed it depends on the church.Married is a sacrament in catholic,a vow that you cant never broke in your lifetime.These days people just get divorced so easily,I bet they were not catholic.

well basically what it comes down to is you have to become catholic in order to be married in the catholic church. the catholic religion are very strict about their beliefs and wont allow just anyone to be married in their church. before you go ahead and do this i recommend that you find out more info on the catholic religion so that your more prepared on things.

Pledge to hate, discriminate, and give them money and power. That is what the church has come to now. Nothing more nothing less. Bigotry!

S