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Remember the dates on which you may be denied a wedding.
When is it better to have a wedding in 2025? The priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, activist, rector of the Open Orthodox University of Saint Sophia-Wisdom, Georgy Kovalenko, spoke about.
When is the best time to get married in 2025?
According to Georgy Kovalenko, in Ukraine, church marriage does not have legal force, as in some countries, in particular, in Europe. Wedding is a church sacrament. For believers, it is the highest level of marriage, when people make vows not only to each other and certify that they are a family, not only before society and the state, but also before God. At the same time, the church recognizes marriages concluded in the Civil Registry Office and considers such unions to be families.
Traditionally, the Orthodox Church does not perform weddings. during great fasts and during several of glasses – Beheading of John the Baptist (August 29) or Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord (September 14).
We remind you that the fasts in 2025 will be on the following dates (in the new style):
- Great Lent – from March 3 to April 19;
- Peter's Fast – from July 8 to 11;
- Assumption Fast – from August 1 to 14;
- Christmas Lent – from November 15 to December 24.
When choosing a day to get married, consider these dates, because you may be denied the wedding. As the priest emphasizes, now, in general, each couple decides for themselves when they would like to get married. But if they are believers, they must adjust to the church calendar.
When you absolutely cannot have a wedding in 2025
The Church has never been categorical, and the war makes its own adjustments to traditions. According to Heorhiy Kovalenko, even during fasting, priests sometimes, as an exception, marry couples if one or both of them military, when in peacetime this would not be done.
