Marriage Preparation Guidelines
- Assessment Process
- Pre-Nuptial Inquiry (Form A)
- Letter of Freedom (Form B)
- Formal Marriage Preparation Program
- Natural Family Planning Session
- Selections of readings and songs for the Liturgy
- Additional Requirements As Needed
Pre-Cana Marriage Preparation
If you have not yet begun the process of planning your wedding through the parish office, please do so before signing up for the class. Keep in mind that this process should begin at least six months prior to your desired wedding date. Baptism certificates for the bride and groom issued within the last six months should be brought to the first appointment with the priest.
- Sacrament of Marriage
- Effective Communication
- Prayer as a Couple
- Intimacy and Sexual Expression
- Fostering a Culture of Life in Marriage
- Natural Family Planning
Frequently Asked Questions
A short video about “The Sacrament of Matrimony”
On Engagement by: Pope Francis
Theology of Marriage

Prayer for Engaged Couples
Thank You Lord, for this wonderful gift of our love, which already has brought us so much joy. Grant that we may continue to love; reverently, patiently, generously — seeing you in each other. Guide us to continue to discover each other, that our understanding and compassion may deepen and mature. Teach us to forget ourselves and live for and in each other, that we may truly become one. In the hurried days of final preparation, grant us the calmness to reflect upon the sacramental moment when you will seal and sanctify our promises, binding us together in profound intimacy forever. Grant us the insight to realize that soon our unique love will be caught up and transformed into your boundless love. Then we will no longer be merely a young man or woman in love—but husband and wife, an image of Christ and His Church, with a special right to supernatural help, and special commission to create love in each other, in our children, and in the family of God. In joy or sorrow, in richness or poverty, in sickness and in health—may our love grow into your Divine Love till death do us part. Amen.