if my fiance is a muslim and i am a catholic what sort of wedding can we have so we will both be happy?

Answer 1

I think you'll need to be married by a registrar rather than having a church wedding.

You can get married anywhere you like these days - in a hotel, or a castle, or anywhere really.

Have you thought this through though? If he is a practising muslim and you are a practising catholic you may be in for troubled times ahead.

For example, you may not be able to go to Communion after the wedding (depends how liberal your priest is).

I wouldn't imagine your fiance's religion would be very keen on the idea either.

But if you've thought it all through and you're cool with it, I wish you both all the very best for the future.

Answer 2

Holy Matrimony is a Sacrament. Do not make a mockery of it by asking your Priest to have some kind of half a ceremony, they won't do it and you should know that.
If you are going to actually be a Catholic and have cradle Catholic children, you need to be married in the Church and have your children baptised in the Church. You would need to contact a Priest at least 6 months in advance & your Muslim fiance would need to go through RCIA (which follows the liturgical year or get special dispensation from the Priest / Bishop for approval)

If you are a cafeteria Catholic, picking and choosing the parts you want of the faith to practice, then I would vote let him have his full Muslim ceremony.

Being a Catholic, you should know that if you are not following the teachings of the Church, you are not a member at heart. Someone else posted they are expecting a traditional Catholic burial mass or Last Rites, you do not get to take part in Sacraments if you are not enrolled in a Parish.
If you are practicing your faith, then have a traditional Catholic wedding, followed up by some of the Muslim ceremonies at the reception. There are a series of them that occur with the marriage agreement, another thing you could do is change clothing after your Christian wedding to traditional Muslim colors
I would suggest signing up for the engaged encounter weekend required by the Church anyway or some kind of counseling asap to help you sort out what to do.
Nutshell on the ceremonies- Catholic Marriage is a Covenant based on the Bible, Muslim marriage is a contract with blessings from the Koran.

Answer 3

You can be happy with anything, is the question what will make both families happy?
There you will be disappointed, his family will want your wedding to be Muslim and your religion will ask that he allow the children to be brought up Catholic. He may not like that, or both of you may think potential children are too far down the road to worry about, but the parents will know that a decision must be made and one side or the other is going to be displeased. Religions are very strict about these things and they aren't fond of fudging the ceremony just to make the bride and groom happy, so discuss this thoroughly between yourselves and prepare yourselves for the fact that this will cause dissention.
Be very sure about marrying a Muslim if he is a foreign national.. they believe the children belong to the man and if you break up later and he returns to his homeland with them, you may never see them again. And it will all be legal no matter what the American/British courts said. Of course if he is an American/British Muslim this isn't an issue.

Answer 4

Fun School m is wrong.

No non-Catholic will have to take RCIA Classes. (the classes to become Catholic.) They will have to promise to raise their children Catholic. Which your soon to be hubby might not be willing to do. So talk with him!

You will have to take Engaged Encounter or Pre-Cana Classes. A whole weekend or six hours worth of communication/conflict -management type classes to prepare you for your marriage.

I recommend taking the EE NOW! Even if you don't get married in the Church. It will give you decision making techniques to decide how you will raise your children, where you will live, etc.

Also in NJ you must talk to the priest 12 months before your wedding.

You might be better off with a civil ceremony at the reception hall, this way no one has to give up their religious ceremony.

Answer 5

My husband and i got married in a registry office to get around that problem. It suited us but our families were less than pleased.
When we moved here to the Middle East, and I have to say that was over 30 years ago, they wrote down on the paper that should have been a translation that I was a Muslim. Why? Because I had married Muslim so I must be one.
Doesn't worry me any although I would prefer a Christian funeral service as then everyone gets to come along and check that I really am dead!

Answer 6

congrats on your engagement. I saw an episode of whose wedding is it anyway and another couple had the exact same problem, they had two ceremonies both the same day, the bride had two different dresses one for each ceremony(the attire for the muslim wedding was picked out by the grooms family who were muslim, it was not your typical gown but it was still very nice) the wedding came out great but it was very time consuming, but at the end of the day both families and the new couple were all happy

Answer 7

Have a ceremony where both are involved in some sort of way.

Could get married under the muslim religion and then get blessed under the catholic.

Answer 8

Have a wedding that celebrates the love of two people, no matter who they are, why reliogin have to be in the middle of everything?

have a muslim and catholic wedding , celebrate twice if you have the money.

just enjoy life, with the man you love ! !!

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Answer 10

my cousin is also a muslim,and when he married his wife,(she's a catholic) they had a traditional muslim wedding.then they had a proper white wedding for the benefit of some of their realatives who couldn't attend the first one. we had a brilliant time at both ceremonies, and everyone on both sides of family were happy about it.if you can do both you should, it realy was good for both familys to get to see each others culture.and are now very good friends.