Marriage civilisation question

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When you have your marriage convalidated how big a ceremony is it ?? That is , is it a small, private ceremony or is it carried out in view of all ??
 
We had our parents, our child(ren), my sister and her children, and our witnesses. The witnesses included our Best Man and Maid of Honor.

I wore my wedding dress, my husband wore a nice suit. I put together our flowers.

And we had a small reception back at our house.
 
It would feel a bit odd having a large ceremony And we did only have our children present when we married in register office (second marriage for my husband) so I wondered if we could just have two witnesses (I assume we still need them ) and our priest?
 
Triciamcl31 said:
It would feel a bit odd having a large ceremony And we did only have our children present when we married in register office (second marriage for my husband) so I wondered if we could just have two witnesses (I assume we still need them ) and our priest?
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Yes, in fact, that’s the minimum necessary for a wedding: bride, groom, priest, two witnesses.
 
I saw a couple have their marriage blessed at a morning Mass. It was kind of nice to witness it. 👍
 
When we had our convalidation, it was just my parents, our children, my sister and her family, and another couple who are good friends of ours and their children. I wore a dress like I would wear to church and my husband wore a shirt and tie. We went out for lunch all together to a nice restaurant afterwards where we’d reserved a private room. Small and simple, but it was nice. We had been married for 12 years when we had the convalidation so it would have been kind of silly to have a big elaborate wedding ceremony all over again, but it was still a very nice day the way we did it.

Your religion says Protestant up by your name. Is your spouse Catholic? If not, you probably wouldn’t even need to have a convalidation. We only had to because my husband and I were both baptized Catholic but were married in a Methodist church without a dispensation. If you’re not Catholic yet, then the Catholic rules for marriage wouldn’t apply.
 
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Your religion says Protestant up by your name. Is your spouse Catholic? If not, you probably wouldn’t even need to have a convalidation. We only had to because my husband and I were both baptized Catholic but were married in a Methodist church without a dispensation. If you’re not Catholic yet, then the Catholic rules for marriage wouldn’t apply.
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Note the OP mentioned this is the second marriage for her husband. So, convalidation would be necessary after a decree of nullity.
 
It depends on what you want and what can be arranged. In RCIA we have had everything from a quiet ceremony with just the priest, witnesses and couple to a full up wedding mass.
 
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