Congratulations on your engagement!  We are honored to accompany you and guide you as you prepare for the holy and sacred covenant of marriage!

A baptized man and woman, without any impediments to marriage, may seek to be married. Marriage in the Catholic Church requires full consent of both parties, and preparation classes through the Church.

Imprediments are situations or conditions, unless corrected or resolved, in which makes it impossible for a marriage to take place.  One example is if one of the individuals is not of the canonical age to get married.  Another example of an imprediment is if one of the individuals is already in another marriage.

The first step is to discern and pray that God has called you to the vocation of marriage.... Our world needs good, holy marriages that live our heroic virtue, hence the preparation process is more than planning the ceremony... it is preparing for a calling from God!

The marriage preparation experience needs to start at least 6-8 months prior to the wedding day.

• Initial session - review the entire process and begin completing the necessary forms

• Meet with Priest or Deacon to discuss theology of marriage and answer any questions you may have.

• Premarital Inventory - this is a means for allowing the couple, with assistance of the marriage preparation minister(s), to explore and strengthen their relationship wiht each other before marriage. (this may take 2-3 sessions)

• Attend a Marriage Preparation Program lead by the Green Bay Diocese... this program helps engaged couples eplore adn determine the strengths adn weaknesses of their relationship in terms of their future life together.

• Further instruction on Fertility Based Methods also known as Natural Family Planning (NFP) to help the couple understand and anwser any questions on the Church's teaching regarding congugal love and responsible parenting.

• Liturgical planning and follow-up with priest or deacon witnessing the Sacrament of Marriage in the Catholic Church.

• Rehearsal - Priest or Deacon will lead this session (typically the day before the wedding day)

• Wedding Day ----- Congratulations!!!

• Post-Wedding Follow-up - this is a session to meet with the priest or deacon around six months after the wedding day.  This is a time to deal with expectations, adjustments and building strengths.

Yes!  As long as your wedding date is open on our calendar and that we are aware that you are preparing for marriage in another Catholic parish or diocese, you may be married at St. Pius X Church.  You will also need permission from the pastor of the parish in which you are recieving preparation and the pastor of St. Pius X Parish.

Yes, it is possible.  You will need permission from the pastor of St. Pius X and the pastor of the Catholic church in which you will have your wedding.

The marriage preparation process should begin as soon as you get engaged and at least 6 months in advance of the wedding date.

You can call the parish office at 920-733-0575 to see if your proseptecive wedding date is open on the church calendar.  If you are doing your wedding preparation at another Catholic parish, explain that you are doing marriage preparation at a different parish/diocese and would like to have the wedding take place at St. Pius X.

In order for a marriage to take place at St. Pius X Church, at least one of the members must be a practicing Catholic.

Couples wishing to reserve the church for a wedding should do so soon after they get engaged and at least 6 months before their prosepctive wedding date.  The initial meeting with a priest or deacon needs to take place prior to reserving the church for a particular date.

A Catholic must receive permission from the bishop to get married at a non-Catholic church.

A Catholic marriage (sacramental marriage) is where a man and a woman make a convenant (not a contract) with each other until one of the two people pass on to eternal life.  A convenant is a committment for life and can not be reversered or removed, unlike a contract that can be changed, broke or disreguarded.

A Catholic marriage is an irrevocable consent of both spouses, by which they freely give themselves to each other and accept each other.  This singular union of a man and a woman requires, and the good of the children demands, the complete fidelity of the spouses and the indissoluble unity of the bond.

This can be discussed with the priest or deacon.  The couple can choose to have a Mass and wedding ceremony or just the wedding ceremony.