How do we date our marriage?

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My husband and I got married (a civil invalid marriage) on August 30th. Our marriege certificate says August 30th. After coming in to the church, we both received annulments and were spiritually married on December 18th. I know that our marriage is December 18th. The problem is, when we received our beautiful nuptual mass, did it back date?
 
Dear V,

Whenever you were actually married in the eyes of the Church, that is your true marriage date. I don’t know what you mean by being spiritually married. If you were married in the presence of a priest or deacon and then later had a public Mass to celebrate that marriage, then the date would be that of the actual exchange of vows and not the Mass date.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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