Catholic/non-denominational ceremony

Check with the church’s office to see if they can give you the run down! My guess is there will be a reading or two, the priest will say his message and then vows and another blessing. Don’t worry about the drive to the venue form the Church! That’s not crazy far at all. I think it’s so special you’ll get to have a church ceremony (I’m not and kind of wish I was!) ...I have been worrying so much about inconveniencing guests in any way shape or form sooo I’m going to tell you what everyone keeps telling me- the day is about what you and your fiancé want! Stop worrying about everyone else! Have fun planning 😊Xoxo

30 minute drive isn't unreasonable. A couple may duck out a bit early but it's not a big deal.

Well since your not catholic, you cant have the full mass (hope that doesnr sound rude.) The mass is the communion. Without communion it's just a ceremony. So for a catholic getting married to a non catholic, its just 30 min ceremony. Just the readings and homily I believe. Itll still be a beautiful ceremony either way. Cause the other 30 minutes are all communion.

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Ask the priest for for a book on the readings. You can chose 4x readings for the short ceremony, I believe that the are: the first & second reading, the response, & the gospel.

This is almost exactly what my wedding was like. My ceremony was about 24 minutes from the time the processional started until we exited the church. The ceremony will look very similar to a mass up until after the homily, which is when you will say your vows, do general intersessions, and then the recessional. Who ever is marring you should give you a book outlining the process and have your reading choices. There is no Gloria or profession of faith, there will be no communion. There is no need to indicate that it will not be a full mass on the invitation. If you have a website, you can probably put it there.
Our drive was 25 minutes to the reception. It’s a little long, but what can you do. We got married in January and there was a threat of winter weather so that may have had an impact. But, we had several people leave after dinner or after dancing just a short while. All our guests had to go the opposite way to get home as well, and most was an hr+ back home. By the time we left at 8:45 only our parents, siblings, and bridal
party were left. It was supposed to end at 9.

The church should have a basic timeline to give you.
30 minutes is probably the furthest you could get people to drive between locations.

View Quoted Comment Actually you can have a mass in your wedding if you are not Catholic but your spouse is. It is up to your Parish and if they allow it, you can choose to have mass or not.

So my venue is always 30 mins away and it IS a full 1 hour catholic mass. LOL oh well its how we want to have our day go.

I don't think you need to tell people the length of the ceremony. If you're having a cocktail hour they should be able to put the timing together.