Catholic Wedding Ceremony Greece & The Greek Islands
Greece is an ideal choice of locale for Roman Catholics to be legally married away from their home town diocese. With the proper required documentation outlined below, your ceremony will be as legal as if performed by your own local parish priest and possibly for a lot less. Your Catholic wedding ceremony in Greece can be as big and festive as you like or as quiet and low-key as your 2 legally required witnesses* will allow.
There are two major Catholic enclaves in the Greek islands and Santorini, in our opinion, is the all around best choice for many reasons!
Santorini is beautiful. Its very beautiful! This particular island and this one alone, combines the best of Greece's rugged geology in an a awe inspiring and dramatically beautiful setting. Stupendous views surrounded by the Aegean sea that you cant get anywhere else in the world or even in Greece. Santorini is the most popular island in Mediterranean and among the 20 most popular world wide.
Unlike many Greek islands Santorini also has the infra-structure to satisfy all your needs no matter how extravagant or simple. There are no de-humanizing tall buildings on Santorini and no car horns blaring. Its friendly residents appreciate the fragility of human existence while their respect for mother nature is profound. The atmosphere is harmonious, the foods delicious, the wine locally vinted and its population international. Santorini is a very pleasant island with something that you and everyone of your guests will remember for the rest of their lives. It might be the beautiful black sand beaches, he wonders of ancient Thira and Acrotiri, swimming in your cliff top pool or dining amongst the stars. Santorini delivers the goods every time!
Santorini will further charm you with its white washed cubistic Cycladic style architecture amongst Fira town's winding cliff top paths. Architecturally Santorini has an equally romantic Italiante influence to it as well. If you choose to base yourselves In Fira town you will have a wide variety of accommodation styles to choose from for all budgets including world famous "caldera view" (crater view) traditional and non traditional dwellings and some with cliff top pool.
*we can provide 2 witnesses upon request.
Catholic Wedding Ceremony Minimum Requirements
- Assistance with essential paperwork
Wedding application & associated fees with obtaining marriage license
Celebrant (English Speaking Priest)
Wedding Venue
Two Witnesses - Bride’s Bouquet
Groom’s Boutonniere
Flower Decoration for the Wedding Table - One bottle of champagne + alter covered with linen and chairs
Wedding Coordinator Services
Ceremony Supervisor - Photographer’s fee for one hour
50 color photos in album
Wedding Album
CD with all your wedding photos and negatives - Package TOTAL: EU
Required Documentation for Catholic Ceremony
- A Baptism Certificate. This document should be requested and dated close to your wedding date.
- A Confirmation Certificate.
- A Freedom to Merry Certificate. This document is the assurance that you are free from any canonical impediment for marriage. These certificates must be obtained from the parish priest in which you were baptized and must be dated within 3 months of your marriage. If the date of your confirmation is not written in the parish in which you were baptized, you should ask for it in the same parish in which you were confirmed.Take these certificates to your present parish priest who should make the prenuptial inquiries and catechetical instruction.
- Written permission must be obtained from your Bishop to have your marriage performed out of your parish and here in Santorini. This is according to Canon 1115 of the Codex Juris Canonici.
- Certificate stating you have completed the “PRE-CANA” instruction class, retreat or meetings Single status letter/Letter of impediment (translated & authenticated) also required.
