Choosing Your Catholic Wedding Music  You have seen weddings on
TV and in the movies, and you have likely attended a few
yourself to get ideas for your own Catholic wedding music. But
have you considered also looking at your parish’s Sunday Mass?
Paying attention to what happens at the Sunday Mass at your
church—even if it’s not the same church where you will be
married—will give you a huge advantage when you begin planning
your Catholic wedding ceremony with the church staff where your
wedding will take place.  Many misunderstandings and
disappointments that sometimes happen when you’re working with
the church wedding coordinator, priest, or music director can be
avoided if you just remember this key point:  Your wedding is
first and foremost a church ritual that needs to follow the
principles and rules of the official public rites of the
Catholic Church, also called “liturgies.”  The church staff’s
model for what your wedding should look like is not what you
normally see on TV but what usually happens at Ma