Wedding in Lutheran church blessed in Catholic Church

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Our daughter is getting married in a Lutheran church. I don’t know what branch this particular church is, but I’m curious to know how she could get the wedding blessed by the Catholic Church in the future, should she decide to return to the Catholic faith. TIA
 
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In short, she would need to talk with the pastor of her Catholic parish. She and her husband would go through whatever premarital preparation was needed and then they would marry in the Catholic Church. This is termed convalidation.
 
Is her fiancé Lutheran? She could approach her Catholic pastor about a dispensation from form to marry validly in the Lutheran Church.
 
Is she normally at Mass on Sunday ?

By that I mean is she a practicing Catholic at present - in ‘good standing’ ?
 
She has not joined the Lutheran church to the best of my knowledge but is no longer a practicing Catholic.
 
No, eagerbeaver, she is not a practicing Catholic right now. To the best of my knowledge she has not joined the Lutheran church/ faith, but has not been in good standing with Catholicism for a few years now.
 
Thank you but she no longer believes in the Catholic faith. She was born and raised Catholic but left the church a few years ago.
 
Any action with her marriage will have to wait until she is ready to return to the Church. I hope there’s some comfort to you in knowing that she has a path back if she wants to take it.
 
Thank you again. Do you know what steps she would need to take, should she ever decide to return to Catholocism?
 
In terms of her marriage, it’s what I said above. She would need to meet with her pastor and follow whatever procedures there are for marriage preparation, then the couple could exchange vows in the Church.
 
Presuming her intended has no prior marriages, it is a fairly straightforward process. Specifics vary at the diocesan level regarding the preparatory process, but it starts with the pastor.

Premarital investigation (make sure they are free to marry)
Premarital preparation (explain the sacrament of marriage and what comprises valid consent)
Exchange of consent in Catholic form
 
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