The blessing outside of a Mass, or the Benedictio Nuptialis extra Missam is taken from the appendix “De Matrimonio” of the Rituale Romanum. Benedictio nuptialis extra Missam danda ex Apostolico induito quando Missa non dicitur Expleto ritu celebrandi Matrimonii sacramentum (Ritual. Rom., tit. VII, cap. II), post Orationem Respice, etc., si permittatur benedictio nuptialis, sed non dicatur Missa, sacerdos qui speciale indultum a Sancta Sede obtinuerit, ad neo-conjugatos conversus, dicit Psalmum sequentem:

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.