How long is a catholic ceremony?

45 to an hour for a full mass wedding.

Depending on the church they might not do a full mass due to you not being Catholic or you will need to attend meetings with the priest to talk about your relationship/future.

I'm Catholic, FH isn't. We are doing the short mass should be about 30 minutes.

The full mass takes forever and at the end of it your no more married than the shorter mass.

I've been to both as a guest and I prefer the shorter one.

Around 45 minutes. The difference between having a Mass and not(and if you're not having communion, you are not having a Mass) is about 10 minutes at my Diocese. We are having a Mass and I'm not at all concerned about my guests having to sit an extra 10 minutes.

Typically they won't marry two people if they both aren't Catholic, but every church is different. The weddings I've been to were around an hour long. If your leaning this route you need to get it going now cause you must do pre-wedding counseling, classes and sometimes a retreat. It's a lengthy process.

My ex husband is not Catholic so when we got married we were not allowed to have a full mass. We were even able to have the deacon marry us. It was very nice and not an hour or more lol.

I would look up the responses to different parts of mass, as there are definitely responses that are recited. They changed recently and churches had cards in the pews for a few years to educate people. Unless you're catholic though, you will not be able to get married in the church (not saying you can't do a ceremony there, but you will not be recognized as married in the Catholic Church.)

I definitely encourage you to attend a mass with your fiance prior to the wedding so you are prepared. I am having a Catholic wedding but we are not allowed to have a mass because FH is not Catholic. (Unless we get special permission from archbishop). Even so, there is a lot of marriage prep required for the Church to sign off and marry us....and lots of paperwork.

We have already met with the priest marrying us, the deacon helping us prepare for our marriage, have registered for a 3-day class (often referred to as Pre-Cana) and will have a few more events at the church I am a parishioner of.

If your FH does not regularly attend mass, I can pretty much guarantee that no church will want to marry you with a Catholic ceremony - just a heads up.

I'm anticipating our non-mass ceremony to take upwards of 45 minutes and if we have a full mass - 1 hr 30 minutes max.