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Well...this is a wonderful thread. Thank you all for the good wishes. I'm tempted to say that this thread has made this the best birthday ever, but that would be a lie.
It is, in fact, the best birthday ever, but for an entirely different reason. Which I really should make you guess at.
But ...
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I won't.
dkw is HERE! I'm on a business trip 11 hours from Iowa, and she DROVE HERE!!!
Yes! Right here! She's chuckling as I write this.
She's easily amused.
She must love me or something.
Now top THAT for the best birthday ever!
Oh yeah, this was a total surprise. I was sitting on the toilet and someone pounded on the door. I was like "oh cr@p!" And I yelled "what is it!"
Someone says "package for you."
So, I get decent and open the door to find...
DANA!
Oh, and gifts!
(oh, she didn't pound on the door. It was more of a rapping, gently tapping on my chamber door.)
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quote: This is technically true, but any Bishop can give an exemption. In some diocese this is never done, in most it's done very, very, very rarely. I've heard of some where they're granted routinely, but maybe this is a Catholic urban myth.
Urban legend.
Or clergy breaking the rules.
I had a LOT of personal friends in the clergy (including a couple of bishops)--I almost was a member myself. And I could not get any kind of exception on this when I got married. What I was told was that this came specifically from the Vatican, and that the memos or whatever that the US Catholic Bishops had sent out were quite specific.
Tony and I are being married by a Catholic priest and not in a church. (In a garden, actually. )
It's not going to be a catholic ceremony though - but we still had to write to the archbishop to get special permission for Father Mike to marry us.
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Well, I used to be Catholic, and basically they aren't very flexible on the wedding place thing. If you want a Catholic wedding, you get married in church. Period.
You barely get a say in the readings or vows -- there are alternates to select, but many priests will not allow you to write your own.
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