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How to tell a wedding officiant I don’t want mass with marriage ceremony?
My wedding is coming up this May and the priest who is performing our ceremony is a family friend. We briefly talked about our wedding about a week ago during dinner, and he told us (my fiance and myself) that he already had about 1/2 of the readings and such already planned. This was a blow to me because I did not want a mass with the ceremony, especially since we are both Catholic and that would mean the ceremony would be almost 2 hours instead of about 30 minutes! I know I have to tell him but I don’t want to hurt his feelings….any suggestions on how I can bring it up that I don’t want the mass? (hopefully this isn’t too confusing) Thanks in advance.
Well, you do need to still have some of those readings in order for it to be considered as a union in the eyes of the church. While I didn’t have a “full mass”, meaning there was no communion, we did still have readings and my priest still delievered a homily. I did get married in the Catholic church, and my wedding lasted approximately an hour (becaue my priest saw me grow up and his homily lasted 1/2 an hour).
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