Congratulations on your engagement!
To arrange a wedding, please contact Jenny Hansen via email first.
E: jhansen@stpatrickparish.org.
Many weddings take place at St. Pat’s and we are happy that you are exploring the possibility of having yours here. Once your wedding is scheduled, one of our priests will meet with you to start your preparation and to provide information on the wedding ceremony. We’ll assist you along the way!
If there are more than two months before your wedding date, please complete the form below.
If there are less than two months before your wedding date, please fill out the forms below.
Wedding Music-Step 2, Selecting Your Music – Please complete this information at least one month before your wedding. The sooner the better!
Wedding Details – Please complete this form at least one month before your wedding. This is the same information that is included in our wedding guidelines. If you prefer, you can scan and email the pages from the guidelines.
Wedding Fees are due at least two weeks before the wedding. The fees are the same whether the liturgy is a Mass or a celebration of Matrimony without Mass. Please mail or drop off your fees at your earliest convenience.
The Sacrament of Matrimony, or marriage, is a unique sacrament because it is the man and the woman that mutually administers the sacrament upon each other in the presence of a priest or deacon and other witnesses.
It is a sacred covenant, a public promise made by the husband and the wife to be true to each other until death parts them. In order for a marriage to be valid, the couple must be entering into the covenant out of their own free will, without fear or coercion. They are also asked to honour and be true to each other for the rest of their lives, as well as to accept children lovingly from God and bring them up according to the law of Christ and His Church.
US Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.foryourmarriage.org
Diocese of Rockford
www.rockforddiocese.org/familylife
