WEDDING SERVICES

Note to Brides:

Please call Fr. Carroll to learn if he is available to celebrate your wedding when you have selected your date, time and place of wedding and have confirmed that with your banquet hall or venue. Father Carroll will accept wedding date reservations from two months prior to the wedding up to 18 months. This will allow us to meet and allow time for you to make selections for the ceremony.

Please call 908-925-4546 from 10 AM to 8 PM any day. If Fr. Carroll is not there, please leave a message with the exact date, time and place for the wedding. Fr. Carroll will try to get back to you the same day or the next at the latest. If Fr. Carroll is available for your date, and agrees to place your date on his calendar, then it is appropriate to send him a $275 deposit to confirm your date.

Please call for an appointment at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely, Fr. Carroll

Here is a listing of how I work to make your wedding dreams come true. May Christ's peace, love and joy be with you.

Two two-hour meetings to assist you with the planning and preparation of your wedding. Review of Fr. Carroll’s wedding portfolio and of the ritual for weddings.

Together for Life: a booklet which includes all the prayers and readings of the Catholic ritual for weddings. After prayer and reflection the couple is to return a worksheet with their selections to Fr, Carroll. Or they may add a reading or poem of their own.

A program for the service: Fr. Carroll uses your selections of prayers and readings to create the order of  your wedding. It is sent to you via e-mail. The program may be copied as is or incorporated into a souvenir booklet to be given to all those attending the ceremony.

“A Decision to Love,” the best-selling marriage preparation program to improve couple communications. Fr. Carroll does not require a  marriage prep. program but offers this as a voluntary exercise to build important skills to help your marriage last.

Arrival at the wedding service one hour before time to see that everything is as you want it.

A personalized homily of instruction and reflection based on your selections and relating to your story.

A beautiful Unity candle ceremony that includes the mothers or fathers of each family, if you choose.

Choice of one of five wedding certificates, beautifully inscribed by a calligrapher.

A plastic binder with acid-free pages for safekeeping of your wedding certificate, the program, the homily and a copy of the face page of the license. All presented upon your return from the honeymoon.

Sending your marriage license to the municipality and registering your wedding with CITI Ministries, Inc., 14 Middle St. Brunswick, ME 04011. (*)

Mailing the license and your sealed wedding certificate package with Certified Mail or Priority Mail with receipt requested to insure that it is properly recorded and that you receive your signed and sealed certificate as a memento of your wedding.

Cost of services: The wedding preparation interviews, the program, the homily, the service, the vestments, the travel and the assembly of the package and mailing usually takes between 18 and 22 hours of the priest’s time. The donations requested are a deposit of $275 to confirm the date and one month before the wedding an additional $275. To confirm your date please send a deposit. Should you choose not to select Father Carroll, $225 of your deposit is refundable within three days of your visit with him. A check is sent to the person who provided the deposit. Deposits are not refundable after dates are confirmed and 30 days have passed.

Weddings that are more than 50 miles roundtrip from Fr. Carroll’s home will require a mileage charge of one dollar per mile. Mileage is established using the Mapquest website.

Remember your wedding ceremony is one of the most important days or your life. It is the reason for everyone gathering. It should be prepared with great care and reflection and in keeping with your wishes. Fr. Carroll restricts the number of weddings that he accepts so that he can give you all the personal attention that you deserve.

Congratulations on your big day! Together we can make it very special. Thank you for inviting God to your wedding. Inviting God To Your Wedding is the title of a beautiful book you may wish to read.

(*) CITI ministries of Brunswick Maine founded in 1992, certifies that Fr. Carroll is duly ordained and of good character. It is an internationally-recognized group of Catholic laity and priests founded in 1992 to encourage married priests to serve the needs of Catholics who ask. 21 Church laws permit this. CITI ministries priests have provided over 500,000 people the sacraments.