Getting married during the Easter must be a well thought out and profound choice – the beginning of one’s married life coincides with such an important spiritual event, a day of great celebration. However, it is not always so simple. Do you want to get married at Easter but don’t know if it’s possible? Let’s see what the limits and the possibilities are.
Churches have very stringent rules because they are born from a millennia old doctrine. In reality, in the scriptures, there are no limits to the celebration of the sacraments. If you want to get married at Easter, then, it is possible and no one pastor will ever deny you this right. However, for the whole period of Lent, including Easter Sunday, there are limits for the celebration of religious marriage. Before defining the date of your wedding and setting it for Easter Sunday, it is better to evaluate some alternatives. In fact, making your wedding coincide with the Easter Mass could force you to give up several things that, in a beautiful wedding ceremony, are important and have a certain weight.
If you marry with a religious ceremony you can do it during the Easter Mass. However, there are stakes on which the priests do not supersede, which could be limiting for your ceremony. The first is that the sacraments celebrated during the Easter Sunday are given exclusively during the Solemn Mass, this means that, in addition to your guests, you will find in the Church all those who want to participate in the liturgy. This can be a problem, as it will tend to divert attention from you and put your marriage in the background with respect to the important and religious, and very much felt, the meaning of the Easter of Resurrection.
The second problem, which could make you reconsider the Easter Sunday as the date of your marriage, is that, according to ecclesiastical regulations, all marriages celebrated during Lent must be extremely sober. Easter Sunday is still part of the sacrifice period, so the pastor will impose certain limits, which you will necessarily have to respect, such as the sobriety of clothes and decorations and the inability to choose songs and readings.
The ritual of civil marriage, in several ways, follows the politics of the religious one. Therefore there is no real veto at the wedding on Easter Sunday but it is difficult to find someone willing to celebrate it, as it is a national holiday. For this reason, many Municipalities specify in their own regulations the impossibility of getting married during the holidays, including Easter. Since there is no official prohibition, it is possible, by talking to those in charge, you will be able to find the agreement and obtain permission if your desire is to have your ceremony coincide with the date of Easter.
In conclusion, getting married at Easter is possible, but it would force you into a very minimalist and understated wedding. If you love simple, humble and meaningful ceremonies it is the ideal choice. If you had in mind a ceremony in style, it is better to try to move the date by a few days, in order to leave the Lent period.
