Planning your Wedding at one of the Churches within Clonmel Union of Parishes

Wedding Planning Booklets outlining the procedures necessary to planning a wedding in our churches are being placed in each of our churches – please feel free to take one.

 

You should contact the Rector as soon as you wish to set a date of your wedding so as to check the availability of the church you may wish to use.

Only the Rector of Clonmel Union of Parishes may confirm a date as being available for a service to be held at any of the Church locations within the Clonmel Union of Parishes.

The church availability should be checked with the Rector before booking (and entering a contract with) a hotel so as to avoid any upset to your plans should you discover subsequently that either the Location or the Rector is not available on your preplanned date.

In the case of inter-Church weddings, you should contact the clergy from the two religious communities involved in the marriage. It will be necessary to have a chat with both clergy before making the final decision

CONGRATULATIONS –

To Tyron Botes & Yvonne Drake who were married in Old St Mary’s on Saturday, 21st May.

Renewal of Marriage Vows –

George and Margaret Hogg renewed their marriage vows in the presence of family and friends in Old St. Mary’s Clonmel, on the 31st July 2010.

We wish them many more years of wedded bliss

Marriage Registers –

The Rector has met with the Civil Registrar and the process of checking that each entry is registered is in progress. The parish will retain one copy while the second copy will be kept by the Office of the General Registrar.

Baptisms, Marriages & Funerals –

The correct procedure for arranging these is to contact the Rector. The Rev James will not be added to the state’s List of Solemnizers until he completes his 1st year of ministry – he cannot officiate at weddings until such time as he is added to the list

Baptisms, Marriages & Funerals –

The correct procedure for arranging these is to contact the Rector. The Rev James will not be added to the state’s List of Solemnizers until he completes his 1st year of ministry – he cannot officiate at weddings until such time as he is added to the list.

Marriage Registers –

Until 5th November 2008, the Church of Ireland held the State Registers of Marriages for those solemnised in our churches. Now that we have the new legislation, these registers must be officially closed. In the coming weeks I will take the registers and their duplicates to the local registrar who will officially close them and return the duplicate copies to me for safe keeping.
We are becoming more aware of the lack of safeguards against falsification of vital evidence in the planning of marriages.

Baptisms, Marriages & Funerals –

The correct procedure for arranging these is to contact the Rector. The Rev James will not be added to the state’s List of Solemnizers until he completes his 1st year of ministry – he cannot officiate at weddings until such time as he is added to the list.