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  We are planning a concordat wedding. One of the witnesses will be my sister, who is still unmarried. My fiancé’s sister would also like to be our witness, however the problem is she is a divorcee. Are there any counter-indications for that? I hear this could bring us bad luck, although I’m not really superstitious.
According to legal regulations, witnesses at a concordat wedding have to fulfill two conditions: be over 18 years old and be fully capable of legal actions. Therefore, theoretically, there are no counter-indications for a divorced person to be a witness at your wedding. It is worth to add that there are also no requirements about the person’s religious beliefs: it can be a non-Catholic or an unbeliever.
Although some parishes apply their own additional restrictions, among which there could be disagreement to appoint a divorced person, atheist or someone of different religious belief to be a witnesses. Sometimes, although very rarely, the witnesses are required to supply a confirmation of being practicing Catholics from their parishes, and also certificates of having gone to confession. Information about specific regulations has to be acquired directly from the parish where the wedding will be organized.

As to the wedding superstitions, you can in fact hear opinions that a divorcee witness may augur for the marriage to fall apart. Let me ask an untoward question: is appointing an unmarried or married person a guarantee of the relationship being inseparable?

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