I don't think we could even get married in a Catholic church, now that I think about it. I had a friend who married a divorced man -- his first wedding was not a Catholic wedding (they belonged to some other Protestant denomination), but if my friend and this fella wanted their marriage to be performed by a priest, her guy was going to have to get his previous, NON-CATHOLIC marriage annulled through the Catholic church.

Really? I have never heard of that. Maybe it is something that is up to the discretion of the individual priest? Either way, it is definitely a money maker for the Church.

Maybe Tim can just be like, dude, Dad, I'm divorced, remember? No Catholic wedding for us!

Stephen would have liked a priest at our wedding, but even to do that we were told we had to go through Pre-Cana, and by the time we thought about it, we didn't have enough time.

I think I agree with you tep, in re: band-aide ripping. Because, without it, the priest will, I don't know, "just say hi, because it's been so long," and because he remembers when he and Dad were starting out and all that "Sunrise, Sunset" kind of crap, and next thing, you have a wedding you don't recognize.

Oooh, yeah, no, we wouldn't be able to be married Catholic for SEVERAL reasons according to this: [link]

Tim was married before (even though it wasn't Catholic, they don't give a crap), we've been shacking up for 5 years and I have no intent of "living apart" (although I know lots of people who lived together and still got married in the church, so whatevs), I'm pretty sure Tim was never baptized, and we don't qualify as "in good standing" with the Catholic church.

So, no.

But I'll let Tim handle that conversation with his dad.

I need to get off my ass and get ready to go to my hematology appointment. I don't want to go. Neither Mom nor TCG could go with me today, and I hate getting bloodwork when I'm by myself. I know, I'm a big baby.

Nora, you need to know how many s.f. required per person. I mean, you can do the math without that but it doesn't really tell you anything. Basically you have about $1500/month, or $214 per person per month (not how rent is generally calculated, but okay).

You could use as a ballpark 200 s.f per person, which is fairly typical if not super generous. Any of the data I have on current rates in that area would be Class A office space, so probably not helpful.

My Dad's gf is very much Catholic. And wanting Dad to finally marry her. But to do so, he would need to anull marriage to my Mom, which would make us kids bastards. So, he's using that as a reason to not marry gf. It's kinda comical, if you ask me.

My second cousin married his high school girlfriend really quickly, I think they graduated and then not to long after his mom was calling to issue invitations over the phone because there was no time for printed invites. She assured everyone his girlfriend was not pregnant.

They got married for the financial aid - they'd talked about getting married in a year or two after graduation, but both wanted to go to the same out of state school so they got hitched to be considered independent of their parents.