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When you get married in the Catholic church do you best man and maid of honor have to both be Catholics?
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∙ 13y ago
No. The bride and the groom don't even have to be Catholic as long as the agree to raise their children in the Catholic church. When my grandpa got remarried after his wife died, the woman he married was Lutheran and they were married in the Catholic church.
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