Visiting Fr JJ in IHM - Church booking

Post dating this entry.

I visited Fr JJ in IHM way back in October I think. It was to ask some questions with regards to booking our church wedding. At that time, I was a still a little bit sua ku and did not know what to do with regards to booking the church. The church form was generally clear enough but we wanted to ask how we can get another priest and whether it is possible to hold a wedding on a Sunday too. Then, we were still looking for 10Oct10. ;p

The trouble we had was to settle the date for the wedding. Issues arose where:

1. Sunday wedding?
2. Sunday service in lieu of wedding?
3. Signing of marriage cert in church or do we ROM first?
4. ROM and Wedding dates are good dates for the chinese calendar?

It does seem very straight forward but with all the 4 confounding each other, it was quite hard to come to a decision as one depends on the other.

Fr JJ advised that we can always ROM first on a good date. For the church wedding, we can hold it separate if it is not a "good date" i.e. 10Oct10.

After several weeks of consideration, we decided to hold our ROM on 24Sep10, Fri, and our wedding on the 30Oct10, Sat.

For church booking in IHM for wedding, you can find the forms here:
http://www.ihm.sg/formsdownload