My fiancé and I were both brought up Catholic but are no longer practicing for our own reasons. Our parents are helping up pay for the wedding and used it as a way to, for lack of a better word, bully us into having a church ceremony.
Due to the venue of our reception and the overall cost of the wedding we have been planning a wedding at a church outside of our diocese (we live in Chicago and could not afford a venue that would fit our desired number of attendees within the city) which has been a nightmare.
We are two months out and have not received confirmation from the arch diocese of Chicago that our request to be married in another diocese has been approved. The church we’re working with will not let us set up a meeting with them until this is finalized but has taken a deposit.
We have never met the priest who will be marrying us so I’m really afraid the ceremony will be extremely impersonal. Every time I try to discuss my worries with my fiancé, he gets frustrated and says things like, “you’re right it’s probably going to be impersonal because the church is X,Y,Z”
I feel like this decision is setting us up for failure and I don’t know what to do.
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