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=== Marriage requirements under the Catholic Church  ===

*Copies of baptism certificates. 
*Marriage banns declared and read three times, usually a week apart, in Sunday mass or three days of public worship (read aloud because the bulk of the population could not read). 
*Banns also written and posted in front of the parish church. 
*If the bride and groom were from different parishes, banns were announced and posted in both churches. 
*The bride and groom had to present themselves before the priest with their parents or guardians and state their intentions, and obtain familial consent. 
*Dowry, dote e corredo, (a notarial act abolished in 1975). 
*2-3 witnesses. 
*No impediments (former betrothal, underage, 4th degree of consanguinity or closer (second cousins), affinity (related by marriage), defect to consent. 
*Dispensations.

Records of these requirements, processetti, are often at the diocese rather than the parish.