Catholic wedding:Discussions of Liturgy used in US wedding

[Honey&Sweety 1]

Hello! I just want to brought up the Catholic weddings in USA. Filipinos known for traditional ceremony here in Philippines, wherein we uses different wedding symbols like Rings, Arrhae, Cord, Veil, Motif and others such as Holy Bible, flowers and other offertory gifts. Not to forget we have our Principal Sponsors/ Godparents and the secondary sponsors. I wonder how was the FIL- AM CATHOLIC WEDDINGS in USA since most of the brides from Philippines are mostly Catholics and here we uses Philippine Liturgy intended here and use wedding symbols I mentioned above. As far as I know, Americans and other western countries uses their own Rite of Marriage different from Rite of Marriage of the Philippines. I may say they uses their own rituals or ceremony; for example American - Catholic Weddings use Ring and Unity Candle only. All Catholic weddings are all sacred and I do believe in the solemnity of this ceremony. My fiance and I talk about this topic though we haven`t received our visa approval yet we discussed what Rite are we going to use in the future since Catholic weddings must be planned ahead of time . For those who got married already in USA, is this possible to have Catholic Wedding in USA and use the Rite of Marriage in Philippines?Is this allowed? What kind of Rite have you used during your marriage? Can you give us idea regarding this matter?....Thank you and God bless!... :)

[*JG* 2]

Have you first looked to see if you have a phillipino Catholic Church in the area where you will be living? These questions would all be moot if you had one already in your area who following the practices you suggest.

[gabrielle08 0]

hi

This will be one of the nice topic here..We will be going to have our Catholic Church Wedding this coming october 18. and we are going to use ring and unity candle.

I don't have much idea about here too.

[alienlovechild 75]

Same with gabrielle08, we'll have a wedding on October 18. It will be a non-denominational ceremony. I am Catholic and my fiance is non-Catholic. It's not a big deal for me if those wedding stuff used in the Philippines will not be used in our wedding here in US. I think we will only have a wedding ring and a sort of blessing. What is important for me is that our wedding is legitimate as far as the legal US laws are concerned on matrimony and we'll have blessing. It is the faith that matters anyway...Besides, there is a saying, "If you're in Rome, you act like a Roman." US wedding ceremony may or really different from the Philippine wedding ceremony.

Just use those stuff when you will have a wedding in the Philippines in the future, should there be any.

[RickieAndEva 0]

Hello! I just want to brought up the Catholic weddings in USA. Filipinos known for traditional ceremony here in Philippines, wherein we uses different wedding symbols like Rings, Arrhae, Cord, Veil, Motif and others such as Holy Bible, flowers and other offertory gifts. Not to forget we have our Principal Sponsors/ Godparents and the secondary sponsors. I wonder how was the FIL- AM CATHOLIC WEDDINGS in USA since most of the brides from Philippines are mostly Catholics and here we uses Philippine Liturgy intended here and use wedding symbols I mentioned above. As far as I know, Americans and other western countries uses their own Rite of Marriage different from Rite of Marriage of the Philippines. I may say they uses their own rituals or ceremony; for example American - Catholic Weddings use Ring and Unity Candle only. All Catholic weddings are all sacred and I do believe in the solemnity of this ceremony. My fiance and I talk about this topic though we haven`t received our visa approval yet we discussed what Rite are we going to use in the future since Catholic weddings must be planned ahead of time . For those who got married already in USA, is this possible to have Catholic Wedding in USA and use the Rite of Marriage in Philippines?Is this allowed? What kind of Rite have you used during your marriage? Can you give us idea regarding this matter?....Thank you and God bless!... :)

There are many Filipino communities here in California. You should be able to find a Parish with a Filipino priest that will celebrate a traditional Filipino Rite of Marriage. Eva and I Got married if the Philippines. It was the best experience of my life. There is nothing better that a full-on Catholic wedding in the Philippines.

[Honey&Sweety 1]

Same with gabrielle08, we'll have a wedding on October 18. It will be a non-denominational ceremony. I am Catholic and my fiance is non-Catholic. It's not a big deal for me if those wedding stuff used in the Philippines will not be used in our wedding here in US. I think we will only have a wedding ring and a sort of blessing. What is important for me is that our wedding is legitimate as far as the legal US laws are concerned on matrimony and we'll have blessing. It is the faith that matters anyway...Besides, there is a saying, "If you're in Rome, you act like a Roman." US wedding ceremony may or really different from the Philippine wedding ceremony.

Just use those stuff when you will have a wedding in the Philippines in the future, should there be any.

I agree with you that we should adopt the culture of the state or country where we are. My future sister- in- law and my fiance talk about that wedding plans even I am still here but we haven`t talk about the Rite. Our wedding was planned here in the Philippines during our engagement when my fiance talked to my parents . Marriage would be in the US, its just that we want our marriage bless by God through His Minister because we do believed in the sanctity of Church wedding , so to speak church wedding is automatically recognized by the State or Gov`t, it would be one stopped and one ceremony only because if we got married in Civil we would be having second marriage in Catholic church too since Civil wedding is not recognized by the Catholic faith. Whereas any form of Marriage ceremony and rituals by different religions is good as long as its valid and recognized by the state or government, what matters is the love and faith in your vows. Maybe we`ll just follow the traditional Rite of Marriage in the US since there is no Filipino priest in their place and due respect to the guest also who`s not familiar with Rite of Marriage in the Philippines......Anyways, thanks for the replies it`s so enlightening....God bless you both ! Congrats and best wishes. We wish you a happy married life!!!

[Honey&Sweety 1]

hi

This will be one of the nice topic here..We will be going to have our Catholic Church Wedding this coming october 18. and we are going to use ring and unity candle.

I don't have much idea about here too.

Hello, guys! we are planning to use that too but as I have read about the unity candle. Many parishes/priests do NOT allow the use of a Unity Candle since it is not a part of the Sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church. The Unity Candle was created by Hallmark to add to a ceremony. It later became the "religious" symbol by people adding the "readings" and such that are used with it now. If your priest says "No" and you are really wanting to use one then maybe you could use it at the reception. We are thinking about this too! Anyways, here is some links that we read about the Unity Candle. I also included guide to Roman Catholic Wedding. Hope it helps in your wedding preparations.

Have a blessed Wedding! Congrats and Best wishes in advance!

http://www.weddingsday.co.uk/service_catholic4/

http://www.the-wedding-information-site.co...ity-candle.html

http://christianity.about.com/od/christian...unitycandle.htm

[nickoftime 0]

The catholic mass is all the same but the wedding rite is different. The rites on veil, cord and coins are uniquely Filipino but you can make arrangement with the priest to include these rites in the wedding ceremony.

BTW, is your fiancee a Catholic also? If he's not, then you will have the mixed wedding ceremony under some conditions from the Catholic church. PM me, I'm from Daet.