Sample Marriage Booklets

[kas-catholic]

Let's use this issue as a thread to discuss other marriage booklets that we might want to get ideas from. And what we like or don't like about them, and what's most important to start with.

[kas-catholic]

Here's one. Open source on GitHub, written in LaTeX.

https://github.com/schuster/wedding-program https://github.com/schuster/wedding-program/blob/master/wagner-schuster-wedding-program.pdf

[JohnRDOrazio]

Here's a sample booklet for an American couple that got married here in Rome:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RE_Iu0uERpWIE1GfIJ3y6DakkzgzeVCNPFdiHgkujBE/edit?usp=sharing

Oh and I let them do the lighting of the "unity candle", so that's in the booklet also.
I wonder if we should give some options like that towards the end of the booklet creation process (like "optionally add a non-liturgical ceremony"). At the same time, not all celebrants would necessarily agree with that, so these kinds of symbolic gestures that aren't included in the official marriage rite do need to be addressed with the celebrant. I'm wondering if we could structure the booklet project in such a way that some areas of the booklet would be handled by the celebrant himself unless he delegates to the couple. For example, choice of which Eucharistic Prayer to use would usually be the choice of the celebrant, so we could think of leaving (as a default) the choice of Readings, Marriage Vows, Exchange of Rings to the bride and groom (with the celebrant getting notified perhaps?), and leaving the Mass prayers and Eucharistic prayer to the celebrant (as a default), with the possibility then of these different roles delegating to each other.

[JohnRDOrazio]

Here's a sample Italian booklet (from Saturday's wedding, with a couple errors here and there 🤷

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16bUrB-91C3T0R7_8apE4Vo-yll9llR1V/view?usp=sharing

[JohnRDOrazio]

Here's another sample booklet, from the wedding of another American couple that got married here in Rome:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wPENG6-lfTxLnhFhOjw3lD14R8PMFVku/view?usp=sharing