Thanks a lot for the trust you put in me
Hi All,
I am planning to marry my partner of 2 years in June 04. I am based in the UK and he is based in Egypt now, we met in Holland and he recently went back to make all the necessary wedding arrangements. He is a christian and we are having problems now with organising a church wedding. I am going to be baptised at the end of may and the father's are saying we will have to wait 6 months after this before they allow us to marry in church. However, I have booked my flights and friends are coming along as well. Also the father has said he has never performed a marriage between an egyptian and non egyptian and doesn't know the correct procedures to carry out. I am so confused as I am sure there have been marriages in churches in egypt between egyptian and non-egyptians. We are obviously planning to marry in the registry civil marriage way
as well in Cairo. However, wish to marry in the church and we are finding this very difficult for a church to accomodate.
Does anyone have advice on what I can do or who we can contact for support.
My dh and I could not get married in
Egypt when we were there (8 years ago) cause they were just re-arranging the whole weddingbusiness concerning Egyptians abroad.
Seemed some of them married in church twice or more with the same or the next partner just becaus they could.
The churchfathers had a conference at that time and appointed a liaisonofficer (churchfather) in Egypt for this affairs. They also requested from us a letter from the churchfather of our parish in Amsterdam that we were not married there, which we did not have on us, since we did not know. For this and some other reasons we ended up never being married in church at all.
They also set a time between baptism and wedding which was not the case in ' my time' since so many western women were not really active in church at all and that made them cautious that at least one should have an education in church so it will be easier to integrate in the church that will be you'rs during all of you're wedded life.
I am very much sure he will be able to give you some good answers. He is an Egyptian Christian and very much knowledgable.
Oh.... and all the best to you and your soon-to-be-hubby!
[This message has been edited by Tigerlily (edited 30 April 2004).]
Thanks very much for your reply, I will look into this and keep you all posted.
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Many thanks
Tigerlily,
Thanks a lot for the trust you put in me
I have a request; could you please edit the your posting that includes my email, replacing the @ mark by the word (at) just to avoid electronic spammers:
raymon(at)youregypt.com
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Tigerlily:He is an Egyptian Christian and very much knowledgable
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youregypt forum … your convenient answer to your question about Egypt
[This message has been edited by Raymon (edited 30 April 2004).]
Raymon, I am deeply sorry and I hope you forgive me ....... 
But I knew you would be able to provide her with all the right answers.