And more, and more
The first priest my mother contacted for the wedding, told her that all the paperwork was far too complicated and he wouldn't be doing it.

Now, my mother works for the Inmigration Ministry (?) and this same priest has been taken there, accussed of having an illegal inmigrant working for him. He now wants to sort out all the paperwork to avoid having to pay a massive fine.

My mother, of course, mentioned to him how terribly difficult it would be to do this, even more than organizing a wedding with an English person. The priest now seems to have changed his mind and has asked my mother to give him all the papers and he'll sort them out.

If there is a God...
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:33, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

No there isn't

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:33, Reply)

It's an old Spanish saying
Something to do with karma and that.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:35, Reply)

But what a total tool of a priest

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:37, Reply)

Thank you for a proper answer
And yes, I'm getting more and more dissapointed with them.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:39, Reply)

Clergy cunts
Mine were all fine, but I'm not forrin.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:40, Reply)

going to check out a potential venue tonight
which should be fun.

glad I don't have to deal with the clergy though. in my experience they bring up some odd subjects at weddings.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:43, Reply)

Well, from what I heard from other mixed couples
Doing it only civil from here to marry in Spain is even more complicated (mainly because the records in the consulates are out of date, and they ask for papers that are almost impossible to find anymore). But if you marry through the church, your priest asks someone in Spain what is needed, and with this of being european, it's not too bad.

Where do you want to celebrate?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:49, Reply)

we had been planning on it being at some beautiful botanic gardens
but the woman there was a bit of a twat, and seemed inflexible, so we're looking at some cool rooms in a local hotel tonight, and considering having the reception at an awesome pub down by the river, out of town.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:56, Reply)

That sounds really nice
Not for the twat at the botanic garden. Why was she being inflexible?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:58, Reply)

it might just have been that she was busy and being a bit abrupt
but things like organising a band, she'd want us to use an agent that they always use to find a band, whereas music is pretty important to the mrs and me and we want to be able to sort that out ourselves.

things like that.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 11:15, Reply)