Same-sex Catholic marriage is celebrated here without qualification, in the same rite, with the same preparation and the same register entry as any other. The preparation is serious and it is not waived for anyone. Nothing about it costs money.
Either of you can write. Include a rough date if you have one, and say if there is any pressure on the timing.
Six sessions with the Ordinary covering consent, money, conflict, family, sex, and what you each think a marriage is for.
Six sessions — no waiverThe preparation runs a minimum of eight weeks from the first session. Long engagements are welcome; short ones are not accommodated.
Eight weeks — minimumYour intention to marry is published three times so that anyone with a canonical impediment can raise it. Dispensation is available in writing.
Celebrated in the Roman Rite of 1962 and entered in the bound marriage register in ink, in the names you both use.
Required — not waivableOn the banns and their dispensation
The banns are dispensable in writing by the Ordinary for grave cause, including danger to either party. Where publication would expose a couple to a violent family, an employer, or a state that tracks them, dispensation is treated here as an ordinary act of pastoral government — not as an exception grudgingly made.
No banns are currently published
When a couple is in preparation and has not sought dispensation, their intention appears in this register three times before the wedding. This table lists what is actually published, and today that is nothing.
Open — none publishedDispensations granted
Dispensations from publication are recorded by the Chancery and held on file rather than posted, since publishing them would defeat the purpose of granting them.
Held on fileCivil solemnisation
Oregon’s requirements for who may solemnise a marriage and how the licence is returned are being confirmed in writing before any wedding is scheduled. Couples are told exactly where that stands when they ask.
Being confirmed in writingCouples married civilly can have that marriage convalidated — celebrated sacramentally and entered in the register — without pretending the civil marriage was nothing. Many couples here married in a courthouse because it was the only door open at the time. That is not a defect to be repented of.
Convalidation still runs through the full six sessions of Pre-Cana. The eight-week minimum applies. A marriage of twenty years gets the same preparation as one of twenty days, and most long-married couples say the sessions were the point rather than the price.
Either of you can start this. Say if you need the banns dispensed and why, in as much or as little detail as you want.
Write to the Chancery and the first session can be scheduled this month.
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