[old and tired]

Yep. I do know that some pastors will waive the fee for faithful couples and faithful departed. Otherwise, nope. There’s a fee for weddings and funerals completely separate from the altar servers and musicians.

[defconw]

Ouch! But I guess, maybe that gets rid of the people who just think it would be nice to get married in a church because of the way it looks as opposed to belonging to the parish.

My parish was not the prettiest in the area, but it was home. I never thought about getting married else where. My sister wanted me to get married at her parish. But they were booked up. I was secretly glad. I left that parish because they were losey goosey and there was this Unitarian sister there. She thought she was Catholic. Took ten long years to get rid of her.

I lived an equal distance to either parish. The one I went to was built, because the other one got to big. So I did not break any rules about parishes.

[yldstrk]

it goes into the pastor’s slush fund