Weddings
Paola Becerra
401 W. 5th Street
Madera, California 93637
(559) 673-3290 ext. 243 or (559) 674-9069
paolab@sjoachim.org
401 W. 5th Street
Madera, California 93637
(559) 673-3290 ext. 243 or (559) 674-9069
paolab@sjoachim.org
Requirements to Marry at St. Joachim
Visit or Contact Paola Becerra Six(6) Months prior to your Wedding Date
An Initial Interview is required before a wedding date can be scheduled.
If an Annulment may be needed, we would gladly assist you in finding more information and beginning the process. If there are any questions/concerns regarding "Lack of Forms" or "Dispensations", please bring those to our attention, so we may be able to better assist you.
Fee:
Chapel
Mass or Ceremony Times Available:
Chapel
- A checklist and description of required documents will be provided. A schedule of the required Marriage Prep Classes will be provided. The interview will discuss and outline any needed requirements for your individual case (previous marriages, sacramental prep etc). Any questions you may have will be addressed at that time.
- After initial interview, couple is free to schedule their wedding date at the Parish Rectory.
If an Annulment may be needed, we would gladly assist you in finding more information and beginning the process. If there are any questions/concerns regarding "Lack of Forms" or "Dispensations", please bring those to our attention, so we may be able to better assist you.
Fee:
Chapel
- Deposit: $100.00
- 30 Days Before Wedding Date: $100.00
- Total Charge: $200.00 ( Beginning on January 1, 2020)
- Deposit: $225.00
- 30 Days Before Wedding Date: $225.00
- Total Charge: $450.00 ( Beginning on January 1, 2020)
Mass or Ceremony Times Available:
Chapel
- Saturday at 12:00 pm & 2:00 pm
- Saturday at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm
Nuptial Mass or Ceremony
Marriages between two Catholics who have received their First Communion are celebrated with the nuptial Mass so that both may receive communion together. When one of the two is not to receive, ordinarily the nuptial Mass will not be celebrated. The couple will instead join together in Holy Matrimony in a ceremony through the Wedding Rite outside of Mass.
A ceremony contains similar components to a mass, but does not have the liturgy of the Eucharist or Communion.
A ceremony contains similar components to a mass, but does not have the liturgy of the Eucharist or Communion.
The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws. . . . God himself is the author of marriage."The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes. These differences should not cause us to forget its common and permanent characteristics. Although the dignity of this institution is not transparent everywhere with the same clarity, some sense of the greatness of the matrimonial union exists in all cultures. "The well-being of the individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound up with the healthy state of conjugal and family life."
-Catechism of the Catholic Church 1603
-Catechism of the Catholic Church 1603
