Catholic/methodist Wedding

I'm Jewish and my H is Catholic, and as far as I understand, you cannot get married in a Catholic church if you're not Catholic. We had a rabbi and a reverend co-officiate our interfaith ceremony, which was at our reception venue, not in a house of worship. You might need to look at other alternatives.

View Quoted Comment That's not correct. As long as one of you is Catholic and has all the requirements (baptism, first communion, confirmation), you can get married.
You will do everything as normal, but the papers will have to be sent to the bishop to get approved. So, it just takes longer. And your future spouse has to promise that your kids will be raised Catholic.
I'm Catholic and my husband was raised Lutheran but he doesn't practice. This is what we did.

You can get married in a Catholic church (I meant to say).

View Quoted Comment Okay awesome.. that’s a relief because I’m a practicing Catholic and my FH is even willing to be baptized in the Catholic Church. He also wants us to raise our future kids Catholic.. so that’s reassuring!

I was raised Methodist but am not really "practicing". In high school I was engaged to a Catholic man and I was fully prepared to learn and go through all of the steps necessary to officially convert to Catholicism. I've always heard that you have to actually be Catholic in order to be married in a Catholic Church, so since the church was so important to my ex and his family and I just consider myself Christian, no particular denomination, I was going to convert. We didn't end up getting married for other reasons, but I do know 4 people that have converted to Catholicism so they and their spouse could be married in a Catholic Church. Is your FH open to becoming Catholic or are you open to not being married in the church. I do think that it will be very difficult to find an actual church that does an interfaith ceremony. (ex: Baptist Church = Baptist church services and ceremonies never a mixture)

View Quoted Comment I mean my FH wants to convert, and I’m not sure I can ever get myself to not have a ceremony in a church. Of course I’ll keep an open mind, but if I can, I’d really want to stay in the church. But if it turns out that the churches won’t marry us because he’s Methodist then I might just do the ceremony at the venue with a JP.

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Well if FH is willing to convert then that's great! If he's like me and really just considers himself to be a nondenominational Christian then why not go ahead and become Catholic. I know there are a few hoops to jump through but IMO that's nothing compared to being able to be married in your church which is important to you, and since he loves you I would imagine he's willing to do just about anything for you. Even if he immediately becomes a "lapsed Catholic" he will have learned a lot and if you plan on raising Catholic children I'm sure what he learns before the wedding will end up very helpful when bringing up the kids.

I'm Catholic and my DH is Church of England and we had no trouble getting married in a Catholic church. The pre wedding stuff was all very easy for us. Don't get discouraged before you contact the church/parish and see how they respond.

It honestly depends on where you get married. I'm Catholic and my FH was baptized Methodist but doesn't really practice. Each church is different and requires different things for their ceremonies. One church said 'if you are currently living with your future spouse, you must move out or you can't get married here'. Um... Ok. But, the Catholic church we chose said 'it doesn't matter but pre-cana is a must and we won't do communion at the wedding for the all the attendants". Fine by me. Check out their websites and see what each of their requirements are.

Yes you can get married in a Catholic Church even if FH isn't Catholic. Go speak to your priest as he can certainly address any questions or concerns you might have.

Hi Martyna,

Marrying in the Catholic church is hard if not of the faith. It can also depend on which Archdiocese you belong to. I have seen couples in my family attempt to get married across the country and certain regions were more strict on the rules than others. My brother was a different kind of Catholic than the woman he married but got away with producing baptism paperwork from our church. He still had to go through the classes and meetings. I hope this helps.

I’m catholic and my fiancé is not. I am up to date with all my other sacraments. Like a previous person said, I just need to get approval from the bishop.