Preparation consists of meetings with the Director of Marriage Preparation, Directors of Liturgy & Music, and the priest or deacon who will witness your marriage. In addition to these meetings, you will need to complete FOCUS (a couple communication evaluation) as well as participate in the Couple to Couple Ministry and/or attend an Engaged Encounter. This will be coordinated through the Director of Marriage Preparation.

It is the couple’s responsibility to call the Director of Marriage Preparation to set up the first initial appointment and to have their marriage preparation, including their liturgy planning and the payment of all fees completed at least one month prior to their wedding date.

Please contact Director of Marriage Preparation, Paul Duncil, for questions or to begin your marriage preparation journey.

Important documents pertaining to the marriage preparation process, including a liturgy planning form, financial agreement, etc. may be found here:

"The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament... The spouses as ministers of Christ's grace mutually confer upon each other the sacrament of Matrimony by expressing their consent before the Church." 

- Catechism of the Catholic Church nos. 1601, 1623