Do marriage ceremonies or blessings of a legal marriage need to be in a church?

[Episcopalian]

I know what the Episcopal Church says about this but I’m curious what the Catholic Church says. For context: I’m getting gay Episcopal married next year, and so many reception spots offer ceremonies as a part of their rental package. I refuse to get married outside a church (partner agrees) and the priest was like “ok good because I’d need to get paperwork filled out to do it off site anyway”

Does a Catholic wedding ceremony need to take place in a church building or can it take place at the reception location?

Does a Catholic blessing of a marriage that already took place need to happen in a church building, or could it occur in the reception location?

 

[TheLittleLady]

Catholics can ask the Bishop’s.permission to be married in a place other than a Catholic church.

 

[Gorgias]

Does a Catholic wedding ceremony need to take place in a church building or can it take place at the reception location?

Generally, it needs to take place in a Catholic worship site of some sort (church, chapel, etc). However, the requirement of ‘form’ (that is, the location and the ministers who officiate) may be dispensed by the bishop. In that case, it may not take place in a church or be celebrated by a Catholic priest or deacon.

Does a Catholic blessing of a marriage that already took place need to happen in a church building, or could it occur in the reception location?

Blessings can happen anywhere. Are you talking about a ‘convalidation’, though? That’s a real wedding ceremony. And therefore… yeah: church or chapel, etc, etc.

Catholics can ask the Bishop’s.permission to be married in a place other than a Catholic church.

I’m gonna get pedantic on ya: it’s a dispensation that’s required, not permission.