Jun 7th, 2008
I’ve to do a what, now?
I picked up couple in the big shmoke today who wanted to return home after their pre-marriage course.
They had researched their options and had found the cheapest, shortest course there is. They spent €150 on the course alone (plus additional donations to the Church), and they also had to spend €90 for the round-trip from Bray. They spent six hours on a swealtering-hot Saturday listening to “pointless rubbish”, and ended up with a certificate so basic they could’ve printed it up themselves… at least they would have gotten their own names spelled right.
This couple were lovely - together for five years and at the stage where they could finish each other’s sentences, but ironically enough it was this course that set them at odds with each other from what I overheard.
The course is compulsory for all who wish to wed in a Catholic Irish church. It basically warns a couple of the possible downfalls and short-comings a marriage can have… pretty much anything that can’t be taught, that must be learned by experience.
*sigh*
And they wonder why I’d prefer a foreign wedding?!?