Will my baptised non believing daughter's civil marriage be sacramental?

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Sadly our youngest daughter, although baptised and raised Catholic, no longer believes in God. She is soon to be married to a man who is also an aethiest, though I understand he was baptised in the church of England. My husband and I pray that she will one day return to her faith. Should this marriage fail, as I fear it might, would the church consider that marriage to have been sacramental or valid if she were to wish to marry a Catholic man at some point in the future?
 
In 2009 in the Apostolic Letter Omnium in Mentem the Church no longer recognized that someone could leave the Church by an act of formal defection. This means that anyone who is baptized Catholic is required to be married in the Church or receive a dispensation to be married elsewhere in order for the marriage to be valid.

A baptized Catholic who gets married civilly without proper dispensation would be an invalid marriage.
 
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