Greetings all...
...me and the better half are getting married next year and would like to have an Anglican ceremony. Me being the typical Aussie did not mind it being a Catholic/Anglican/Buddhist/Pagan/whatever wedding (the missus is a proper Catholic and I had some Anglican bloke pour water over my head back in Oz) however the missus came up with the idea of an Anglican wedding (principally I think to spare us the weekend wedding course or whatever) although I think it may just be easier to have the Catholic ceremony.
Anyway to skip the bollocks I know through a web search the Church of the Ascension at the Emmauskirche in Harlaching but does anyone know of others or an Anglican priest who could give a dual language ceremony?
Cheers
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Anglican priests in Munich
...for a dual language wedding ceremony
Europe is split between the Church of England and the Epics... Espico... the American lot. Munich is in the "American" bit. I have some links at home, I'll see what I can dig out.
Cheers OhFFS, much appreciated.
The other question would be: if I was to find one are we then limited to what church we could use or can they use say a Catholic church? I guess to get the answer to that I should ask the priest or whoever at said church... but thought I would ask just in case.
The other question would be: if I was to find one are we then limited to what church we could use or can they use say a Catholic church? I guess to get the answer to that I should ask the priest or whoever at said church... but thought I would ask just in case.
From what I gathered, only baptized Catholics are to be married in a Catholic church. They usually do not allow non-Catholics to get married in their church. I personally think it's a stupid rule (being an ex-Catholic). No Catholic can show me where in the Bible, this rule exists. Man created rule (bah!) Anyhow, we got married in an Anglican church (not in this country though).
Perhaps you can ask one of these churches in Munich?
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp...story_id=1410#d
Good luck in finding a church and congrats!
Perhaps you can ask one of these churches in Munich?
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp...story_id=1410#d
Good luck in finding a church and congrats!
I agree, better luck with a non-Catholic priest.
Sorry, it is the Presbyterians I have the info for, and that's the same as you already found - http://www.ascension-munich.de/
Remember, if you will have to do a pure German non-religious ceremony anyway. It might be worth getting married "at home" if the language is a problem. You can always do it somewhere else entirely of course - for example http://www.standrewszurich.ch/ is in Zurich but then you would still have to do some kind of civil ceremony and get some kind of official stamp and so on on all your papers, I guess.
http://www.europe.anglican.org/homepage/index.htm is the homepage of the Anglicans in Europe and it looks like other places in Germany have Church of England, as opposed to Presbyterian, churches, so maybe you could just do something in another part of Germany if that's what you are after.
Good luck!
Remember, if you will have to do a pure German non-religious ceremony anyway. It might be worth getting married "at home" if the language is a problem. You can always do it somewhere else entirely of course - for example http://www.standrewszurich.ch/ is in Zurich but then you would still have to do some kind of civil ceremony and get some kind of official stamp and so on on all your papers, I guess.
http://www.europe.anglican.org/homepage/index.htm is the homepage of the Anglicans in Europe and it looks like other places in Germany have Church of England, as opposed to Presbyterian, churches, so maybe you could just do something in another part of Germany if that's what you are after.
Good luck!
Father Tom the Church of the Ascenion is an Angelican priest who would help you. He is from New York and speaks fluent German.
A catholic church will not allow you to use their premises for an anglican ceremony... you do not both however need to be catholic to get married in a catholic church but it needs to be a catholic ceremony. Your girlfriend (not you) will have to promise to bring the/any of your offspring
(if she was involved, I suppose ) up as catholics.
(if she was involved, I suppose ) up as catholics.
) up as catholics.
Corcaigh, one party still has to be Catholic and the other non-Catholic party has to go for some sort of class beforehand. That was what my friend had to do when she wanted to get married in church with her non-Catholic man.
I still think it is better to do it in a non-Catholic church unless one party is a Catholic and wants it done in a Catholic church.
I still think it is better to do it in a non-Catholic church unless one party is a Catholic and wants it done in a Catholic church.
As I said the missus is a very Catholic girl and wants a Church wedding in Munich. I was pretty sure that a Catholic church would not allow anything but a catholic ceremony but I have the missus asking at her Church (also regarding what I have to do if we were to have a Catholic ceremony seeing as I got the Anglican holy water and not the Catholic flavour).
As for raising the kids (religion wise) that is in her control as she wants to raise them Catholic this was fine by me (I like my Sunday mornings as they are) but she insistent on an Anglican ceremony for some reason (maybe cos my parents are Anglican) personally I could do Catholic.
As for raising the kids (religion wise) that is in her control as she wants to raise them Catholic this was fine by me (I like my Sunday mornings as they are) but she insistent on an Anglican ceremony for some reason (maybe cos my parents are Anglican) personally I could do Catholic.
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