The Closed Time of Marriage
The Church forbids the faithful to solemnize a marriage during two particular seasons of the year, that is, from the first Sunday of Advent until the day after the feast of the Epiphany, January 7, and from Ash Wednesday until the Monday after Low Sunday, or the second Monday after Easter Sunday.
The Church does not prohibit marriage during this time, but only the usual ceremonies attending it, such as a nuptial or bridal Mass.
Only such marriages, however, should be performed during the closed time, as will suffer no delay through peculiar circumstances. They are celebrated privately, without pomp or splendor, before the Priest and the necessary witnesses.
