What do you need to do if you want to get married in a Catholic church?
First you go and you see your local parish priest. Normally you should give yourself about six months so that a lot of the paperwork that needs to be done can be done. You would need to produce your baptism certificate to show that you have been baptized Catholic. It's also a baptism certificate, a new one, not from when you were an infant, you have to get a renewed one. It shows whether you have been married before, and it gives you the freedom to marry. And then you need to do a marriage course. As a Catholic to be married in the Catholic church, you need to do a marriage course. There's marriage care that do lots of courses in different cities. And then with the baptism certificate and your marriage course done, you work with the priest who is going to be marrying you to fill in the right papers. If you're marrying someone who is not a Catholic then you need to get permission from the bishop or what we call a dispensation. So for all of those things you should give yourself six months and just start by going to the local parish priest.
