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IMPORTANT PRELIMINARY INFORMATION ABOUT CATHEDRAL FEES AND REGULATIONS:
St Mary’s Cathedral is available for Weddings on Fridays at 3pm or Saturdays at 2pm and 4pm. Booking requests are currently being taken for 2025-2027.
SPECIAL NOTE: NO FURTHER BOOKINGS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR THE CRYPT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Those from outside the Cathedral Parish need to arrange for their own Catholic priest or deacon celebrant who must possess the appropriate ecclesiastical faculties. In this case, couples should first contact a priest or deacon of the Catholic parish in which one of them resides. The priest or deacon celebrant will guide them through the process of preparation and will be responsible for all the required Church and Government documentation.
The letter of Permission and/or Acceptance from the priest or deacon confirming his availability for the chosen date and time needs to be presented in order to secure the booking. Couples will need to give to the officiating priest or deacon at least six months notice of their wedding.
If you have difficulty finding a priest or deacon to celebrate your wedding, please contact the Cathedral office.
COUPLES ARE NOT PERMITTED TO BOOK OR SUPPLY THEIR OWN MUSICIANS IN ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
All music performed in the Cathedral must have been approved by the Director of Music. It must be liturgically appropriate and will be performed live. It is not permitted to play recorded music at the Cathedral. Only Cathedral organists may play the Cathedral organs.
The Cathedral Bells are rung manually by a team of skilled men and women from the St Mary’s Basilica Society of Change Ringers.
The bells are rung for 20 minutes prior to the scheduled start time of your Wedding Ceremony or Nuptial Mass AND 20 minutes afterwards. Please note: the fees will be increased from 1 January 2024 for all new bookings taken after 01 January 2024. Current bookings will not be affected by the increase.
Wedding bookings are first come, first served at St Mary’s Cathedral.
If you would like to proceed in making a tentative booking once all of your original Wedding paperwork and fee payment is ready, please make an appointment to see the Special Liturgies Officer in the Cathedral office (email: [email protected] or phone: 02 9220 0453).
Sorry but you have not met our criteria to submit a tentative Wedding request to St Mary’s Cathedral.
Please refer to the Cathedral’s Wedding guidelines via this link and read thoroughly in order to progress your enquiry.
Please note: only one booking per Wedding couple is permitted when selecting a Preferred Date (multiple dates will not be accepted and will jeopardise your booking).
Your preferred Preferred Date will only be held for a maximum 2 week period. Your Preferred Date is not confirmation of your booking until final email approval has been given from the Dean of St Mary’s Cathedral.
