One of the questions foremost in the minds of Catholic couples is what wedding customs are actually traditional, and what are (dare I say) accretions? Wedding customs and rituals, highly regionalized, as unregulated by Rome as possible, are a tricky animal. It’s the usual conundrum: if tradition is what came before, and we’ve had several consecutive generations deviate from the tradition, what’s more traditional? Doing what your parents did, or doing what 5 generations back did?

Rite for Foreigners Marrying in Poland In 2016, A Catholic Life reported on a special Polish wedding rite for foreigners marrying a Polish bride or groom. See the full rite here: https://acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2016/08/rite-for-foreigners-marrying-in-poland.html Regional customs A reader was kind enough to share some traditional Polish wedding customs: You need to consider the fact that in Poland there were 4 different Rituals (for Poland, for Silesia, for Pommerania and Varmia) and they slightly differentiate between each other.

This post includes information about the history of the celebration of Catholic betrothals. It will be continuously updated. Rites of betrothal Rite of Betrothal in the Roman Ritual Full text of the Rite of Betrothal as found in Father Philip Weller’s English translation of the Roman Ritual. This is the most commonly used version of the rite. Promised in Christ: Solemn Engagement, Crowning of a Bride. Loveland, Ohio: Grailville Publications, 1955.

On August 6, 1966, for the first time in the nation’s history, the daughter of a sitting U.S. President married in a Catholic church. Convert Luci Baines Johnson married cradle Catholic Patrick Nugent at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Because this wedding is the American equivalent of a royal wedding, we have access to a great level of detail about the ceremonies. This is interesting not only for students of American history and Catholicism, but especially for liturgical history.

For couples who will have a Novus Ordo wedding but want to make the ceremonies as traditional as possible, here are several suggestions. Note: These are suggestions. The final decision may rest with the priest celebrating the Mass, and parish staff supporting weddings, such as the wedding coordinator and the choir director. Mass Readings You may be given a list or a booklet of reading options for the wedding Mass. The following readings options are the same as the votive Mass Missa pro sponso et sponsa: