Planning your wedding at St ignatius

Congratulations to you for your forthcoming marriage! We are happy to assist you in the preparation of your marriage and wedding celebration. We hope we will be able to help you celebrate a memorable and meaningful wedding service/Mass in our Parish. Please take a moment to read the following guidelines.

PART A:

1.  Visit the Parish Office:
(Monday to Saturday: 9.00 am to 1.00 pm):

i. Introduce yourselves to our Parish Secretary. She will assist you to fill:

(i) “Application Marriage” Form” and
(ii) “Wedding Celebration – Facilities and Services” Form.


ii) Priest to Preside your Wedding Mass/Service:
     

(i) You may have already found a Priest who has accepted (verbally) to officiate at your Marriage in our Church. In this case, he needs to sign the “Application for Marriage” Form.

However, if you have not yet found a Priest to officiate at your marriage commitment, we will try to get you one; no promises.


(ii) Your intended date and time of your Wedding celebration is subject to the availability of both a Priest and Church. Payment to Church is only needed upon confirmation of your Wedding celebration in our Church.


(iii) The Secretary will then pass your personal details to the Priest concerned. He will then contact you to arrange to meet up with you both.

2. Church Requirements for you Marriage:

i. Before the Priest can solemnise your marriage, you need to supply to fulfil the following documents:

(i) Baptismal Certificate – an extract dated within the last 6 months.

(ii) Licence or Certificate of Marriage (i.e. notice of marriage license from ROM the Registry of Marriage). This is a document permitting the couple to be lawfully married. Or if already married in ROM, then copy of Civil Marriage Certificate.

(iii) The planned date of marriage must be within 3 months from the date of the above ROM license, after which the validity of the permission to marry expires.

• Certificate of Attendance from the Engaged Encounter (EE) or the Marriage Preparation course (MPC) weekend before the wedding. This course is to be at least 6 to 12 months before the date of marriage.

For details of Registration refer to the following:

- Catholic Engaged Encounter: (CEE):

E-mail: ceespore@catholic.org.sg

Website: http://www.catholic.org.sg/ceespore \

- Marriage Preparation Course: (MPC):

Coordinators: Sebastian/Aileen Chow (Tel. 63453515)
E-mail: rongrace@catholicexchange.com

Registration: Gerry & Martha (Tel. 6228 3427)
E-mail: marthasohsk@yahoo.com

• Use of Church Premises:
  
  
  • Contact the Church Sacristan, Cuthbert Pereira (O) 6466 0625 ext.26 or (HP) 9025 7784 to confirm your date and time of your marriage celebration in the Church. He will also coordinate your needs for: Date and time of Wedding Services/Mass rehearsal, altar servers, booklets etc.
    
    

(ii) Before 3.30 pm: A Wedding Mass/Service on Weekdays or Saturday or a Service on Sunday should be not later than 3.30 pm.

• Another Wedding on same day: Please allow 3 hours between your wedding and the other.
• Reverence: Please do not photograph or videotape from the sanctuary, and minimize the use of strong lighting. At all times be sensitive to people who are at prayer.
• Choir: Please make your own arrangements.
• Cleanliness & Order: No throwing of confetti, rice grains, flower petals in and around the Church. Also, no display of directional signs and decorations, and furniture in the Church is not to be moved around.
• Liability: The Church shall not be responsible for the loss of any articles or any injury or mishap sustained by the applicant and their guest(s) whilst in the premises of the Church.

3. Preparation of Couple by Priest:

Pre-Nuptial Inquiry: The couple must meet up with the Priest who is going to officiate at the couple’s wedding at least one month before the date of the marriage.

Note: Dispensation from the Archbishop is needed for mixed marriages (i.e. between two baptised Christians, one of whom is a Catholic Christian) and Disparity of Cult marriages (i.e. between Catholic and non-Christian.). The first priest will obtain this for you.

PART B:

Parish Wedding Celebration – Conditions

i. Cheque made payable to “ Church of St Ignatius” through Parish Secretary.

ii. Official Receipt of the Church will be issued by secretary immediately upon the receipt of the cheque payment.

iii. Floral Arrangements Provided by Church “Flower Ladies” Ministry:

• The ordinary Church weekly floral arrangements in the Church.
  
  

If wedding couples wish to use this arrangement, then NO charge.

• If wedding couples wish the “Flower Ladies” to arrange special Wedding flowers, then the basic charge is $200.00. Note that these are non-exotic flowers.
  
  

But, if exotic flowers are requested, then the costs of such flowers will have to be borne by the wedding couple (invoice of the flowers will be provided.)

Note that all flowers arranged by the “Flower Ladies” are to remain in the Church and NOT to be removed by the wedding couple(s). If there is more than one wedding on the same day, the Flower Ladies Ministry will only make one floral arrangement.

• Sharing of Costs: There is a “first-come-first served” basis. The above regulations are for wedding couples who make the first reservation of the Church for the day of the wedding.
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  Thus, a wedding couple who makes a later wedding reservation will have to abide by the choice of colours of the flowers of the “first” couple. The first couple will pay $200.00 and second/“later” couple will pay $100.00.
  
  In the event that the first wedding couple chooses to use the Church’s floral arrangement, and thus, no charge, then the “later” couples have the right to have special wedding floral arrangements. This latter couple will bear the full cost of $200.00 and the former couple will have to accept what the latter couple has chosen.
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iv. Outside Florist: Wedding couple can use outside florist under the following conditions:

(i) If they wish to have floral arrangements for pews, place of gathering, signing and reception tables. However, these floral arrangements must be removed from the Church’s premises by the wedding family immediately after the Wedding Mass/Service.

(ii) Our Church’s specification of such floral arrangements at Church pews must be strictly adhered to. *(see samples attached.)

v. Flower Lady Contact: The Parish secretary provides the “Flower Ladies” with the contact details of the wedding couple. The “Flower Ladies” will then contact the wedding couple for follow-up.