A question about rites and marriage

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Hey all. I am recently engaged, and my fiance and I are planning to be married in the Byzantine Rite. We are both Latin Catholics, but have been attending Divine Liturgy for about a year and fully intend to change canonical rites.

My only question is this: I sponsored her when she became Catholic, so I am technically her godfather. A marriage between us would be perfectly licit in the Latin Church, but Eastern Churches require a dispensation. We had no intention of changing rites when she was baptized, so we didn’t expect it to create any sort of obstacle.

Is this something a dispensation would likely be given for? It would be horrible to change rites only to discover the dispensation will not be given. Is there a precedent for this?

Disclaimer: I definitely intend to speak with my priest about this. Just looking into it now since I won’t see him for another week.
 
You will need permission from the latin ordinary to have the byzantine marriage, as well.

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To the best of my knowledge, you’d need a dispensation in the Latin Church as well.
 
For clarification, our intent is to change rites before we are married. So a dispensation from the Latin bishop would not be necessary.
 
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