{"id":484,"date":"2016-11-09T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.wordpress.com\/?page_id=484"},"modified":"2019-07-24T00:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:22:25","slug":"getting-married","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/sacrements\/getting-married\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Preparing for your wedding in our parish church requires that you contact either priest of the Parish. He will inform you of what is required by Church and State. He\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\">will give the couple the necessary documentation which will explain the details and requirements needed civilly and for the celebration of their marriage in church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Church requires each couple to complete a Pre-Marriage course. ACCORD is the main diocesan approved provider of Marriage courses and support in living out the gift of marriage in an often challenging world. There are a number of other agencies providing similar courses. The priest will arrange with the couple the procedure required for filling out the Pre-Nuptial Enquiry Forms (Marriage Papers). Recently issued Baptism and Confirmation certificates will be basic requirements. If a couple have lived in a different parish after they have reached 18 they will be required to have either a letter of freedom or Statement of Freedom to marry.<\/p>\n<p>The Family Law Act requires a couple to give a minimum of three months\u2019 notice to the Registrar of Marriages, Lombard Street, Dublin 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489,"parent":505,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-484","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484\/revisions\/4628"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}