Your Catholic Wedding: A Complete Planbook

by Christopher Aridas

Book Overview

A handy guide for couples, family members, and priests in the preparation for a Catholic wedding. It includes the entire liturgical rite with options, practical details of church arrangements, an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824516753
• ISBN13: 9780824516758
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.5" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book for wedding and marriage prep

My wife and i both found this to be a wonderful resource in both planning and contemplating marriage. Fr.Aridas speaks truthfully on Church teaching. This isn't a happy go lucky just have fun kind of book, but serious preparation...including at the spiritual level. Faithful Catholics will be pleased and impressed. Cafeteria Catholics will find they are not catered too, as they are by, unfortunately, many parish priests. Not for the faint of heart or weak of faith.

The best wedding planning resource I've purchased so far

As a new Catholic who just came into the church in the past year and had only seen two Catholic weddings in her life, attempting to plan an entire Catholic wedding mass seemed to be a daunting task. I purchased this book in the hope that it would guide me through the unfamiliar territory of planning and customizing the mass, and I was by no means disappointed. This book was everything I had hoped for and more. The book presents all of the available prayers, blessings, readings, and vows to choose from, discusses ways in which couples can incorporate friends and family into the liturgy, includes worksheets to record the liturgical and musical choices a couple makes, and briefly discusses the meaning and import of the Sacrament of Marriage. Also, in addition to printing the Scriptural passages available for use in the mass liturgy, the author expands upon each passage and describes how the Scripture message pertains to marriage and what the couple should take away from the passage. Although a couple would only use a select few of the available options in their mass, reading the author's discussions of each passage can serve as excellent marriage preparation. Other basic wedding planning tools are included as well, such as a timeline for task completion and space to record important names and phone numbers. This is by far the best wedding planning resource I have purchased thus far, and I highly recommend this book to any Catholic couple preparing to plan their wedding mass (especially new Catholics who are relatively unfamiliar with the mass liturgy!).

Not conservative, orthodox!

If you are looking for a book that speaks to what a Catholic marriage is, then this is an excellent book. If you are looking for easy going, do as you please... think twice... because this book is neither of those and nor is marriage!

A VALUABLE PASTORAL RESOURCE

A valuable resource for the Catholic couple planning their wedding but also a valuable pastoral resource. This book reaches out to the couple at a teachable moment and explains the Sacrament of Marriage in very understandable terms. It also contains practical advice on how to plan your wedding and remain focused in a prayerful way on the significant event.

Better than "The Catholic Wedding Book"

This book is a more complete guide than "The Catholic Wedding Book" and probably the best book on planning a Catholic wedding that is out there.