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[sadlier86]

Girls prepare yourselves for a rant....

Got a phonecall today from our local priest to tell me that he will not be able to marry us as confirmation is provisionally booked in the parish for our date. Offered no suggestion or alternative!!

Spoke to the priest in the church in which we are getting married (different parish) and he will not marry us as it is not our local parish. Again offered no alternative or suggestion.... "keep searching"

Spoke with the chaplin at work who is a retired priest and aout 90 bless him and he does not do weddings anymore either.

Priest at home in tipperary cannot travel to dublin as he is the only proest in the parish and it is so close to easter would be putting him under serious pressure.

Im now running out of options for my church wedding!!! We have only recently moved house and considering speaking to priest in castleknock and explaining situation but i know ill have to come clean and tell him we have moved and im sure they have the same policy i.e will only marry parishoners.

Do i give up on it and go fir a civil ceremony which i know nothing about and really did not want but do i take the easier option here? H2b would be quite happy with a civil ceremony but will also go the catholic route for me so its really up to me! When got engaged first i def wanted a church wedding as my mam is quite religious and it would mean a lot to her but today she is saying well feic them get married on the beach.... Dont know if she is been serious. I always imagined myself walking down an aisle and not sure about wakking down the aisle of a hotel!!

In serious need of some advice girls..... Help

[Mrsbyrnetobe]

Aw Im so sorry to hear that I say you are annoyed! I would give it a try to talk to your new preist because you never know......But if it doesnt work out the hotel weddings can be amazing and you can always ask for a blessing after your wedding and maybe even have another little party!!!

[Bessiebride]

I don't know too much about priest and how they work but what about contacting maynooth where they study

[how_are_ya]

Hey Sadlier,

That sounds super stressful but don't give up on the idea of a church wedding just yet!

Definetely make an appt with new parish priest and tell him the score, in a parish like Castleknock there will be a few priests surely, have a nosey in the news agents local xtra vision etc and suss out who is the most easy going, then plead like you never have before, this is your new parish, where you plan on christening future potential offspring yada yada yada, compromise on time of ceremony if theres another booking.

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!

Ok crazy talk over Good luck!!!!!!

[BluefishJD]

After goin through three possible priest options we finally got a yes - seemingly priests are a rare breed these days! After finally getting one we were happy out until the same thing happened to us - a few weeks later we get a call telling us the bishops has decide to hold confirmations on the day of our wedding and that he wouldn't be able to do it! - now at this stage we had our deposit and date booked with the church venue chosen and deposit down too so panic stations - we started ringing the next parish, leavin message and nobody getting back to us when thankfully our original priest said that there was a change and that confirmations were goin to be held in the morning so he would be free to do our late afternoon wedding - so as mentioned above as well could u offer pushing ur wedding back til later after the communions/confirmations we had chosen a late wedding time from the start (3.30pm) and actually wanted it later but had to stay within time so as church could be "free" shud there be any baptisms so could be worth a look and like said before pay the new fella a visit couldn't hurt and like u was totally p€&@ed at the lack of help/info when we were first told basically it was our problem but no help/alternative given - hope all works out oh! Is there any family member or a friends family member a priest? As I know if we wanted there was some priest related on my mothers side somewhere think in the uk who could have done it too?

[mollybird]

i'm living in the castleknock area and there should be at least one or two priests should do it. did you try the church on the navan road at all sadlier? even if it means changing the time of your ceramony it cant be that hard to juggle a few things around.

[MrsKenny2013]

Oh god. poor you that is horrible situation. Was going to say the same as bluefish and molly, would you be able to push it to later in the day?