6 to 8 months before your desired wedding date and before making any other wedding arrangements, contact the parish priest at (815) 538 - 6151.  He will give you instructions regarding required marriage preparation steps.

"But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.  For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.  So they are no longer two but one flesh.  Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate."  + Mark 10:6-9

Words/Consent of Man/Husband and Woman/Wife

• Procreation (if physically possible) and education (especially in the Catholic Faith) of children.

• Permanent union of husband and wife as long as they both shall live.