Wedding Blog

Once it was decided that we would have a Catholic wedding ceremony, the next step was to find a church that would marry us. This was much harder than I imagined, mostly because we are out-of-towners and Mr. Radish’s family is not from Syracuse either. My parents live there, but they don’t go to church. So because we are not members of any church in…

We finally got to meet the deacon who will be presiding over our wedding ceremony this past weekend! I understand this might sound silly to those of you who are getting married at your local church or have a friend helping you out as an officiant, but for us, this was well needed closure to our first “wedding drama” incident last year.

You see, getting married…

As requested by reader Kris, I’m going to post some of the readings we have chosen so far. Although I know quite a few of you aren’t religious, I’m hoping we can really just see something lovely in these words, and not be cruel or judgemental. As I have said many times before, I am also not very religious, which is why I’m taking the…

Regarding our new ceremony, I have sent out emails to my close family and friends - a sort of “heads up” if you will. As I’ve stated before, my family isn’t religious and hasn’t been to church in eons. So the email I sent said this: “Just to give you guys advance notice, Mr. Kiwi and I have finalized our ceremony plans. We are now…

Yesterday we had our meeting with the Father. And… we’re going to be getting married in the church after all. I was given a book called “How to Survive Marrying a Catholic.” Seriously, they GAVE it me. Not only does Mr. Kiwi get to be the only family member to be married in the family’s parish church, but we even managed to get the Father…

Hey Everyone. As you saw from my post yesterday about possibly marrying in the church, I have a meeting today with the Father. I’m very bad about meetings, I get flustered and tend to shut in on myself. So, I’m going to go with a prepared list of things the comments already made me think about, like these:

What is the dress code for the ceremony?…

We are both Catholic (one of his relatives is actually a priest and wants to marry us). However, to save money, I wanted to have an outdoor ceremony at our reception location and it’s always been a dream for an outdoors ceremony. I know it is pretty strict that if both parties are Catholic, they have to get married in a Church. But is there…