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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.

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:

Recently, @1962bride celebrated 1 year of being on Instagram and sharing stories from Latin Mass wedding couples. The account also recently passed the 100 couple mark. The couples are from all over the world, marrying in diocesan and order churches, and in low Masses and Solemn Highs. In addition to the diversity of the stories, at least some of the couples noted that they were the first couple to have a Latin Mass wedding since the Second Vatican Council.

Courtesy of Rachel-Claire Reyes on Twitter, below is a Litany for Conception. To view this as a PDF, click here . For more prayers for married couples, see the Prayers page. Litany Our Lady, Undoer of Knots, pray for us. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. Our Lady of La Leche, pray for us. Madonna del Parto, pray for us. St. Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us. St. Joseph, pray for us.

On March 25, 2020, the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith announced that they had approved seven new prefaces for optional use in the Extraordinary Form, or the Traditional Latin Mass. One of the “new” prefaces, Praefatio de Nuptiis is for the wedding Mass, the Missa pro sponso et sponsa. From the Vatican’s announcement: “Finally, special note should be taken of the Preface de Nuptiis, which together with the long Nuptial Blessing still in use in Masses pro Sponsis, is to be found – with minor variations – in early Sacramentaries such as the Gelasianum Vetus or the Gregorianum.

One of the most common questions regarding Latin Mass weddings is, “Do you include the Gloria and/or the Creed?” The short answer For the votive mass Missa pro Sponso et Sponsa, the Gloria is included and the Creed is not included. The long answer Rubrics in recent memory have been consistent that the Creed is not said for the votive wedding Mass. The Creed has traditionally been understood as a part of the Mass exclusive to Sundays, and important feasts.