Which I don’t mean to diminish by saying “only”. It was special to us, that ceremony, and I have very happy memories of it. And in itself it needs no improving on. Only, because I am Catholic, and have of late been trying to return to a more complete identification with the faith, I have arrived at the realization that A. and I need our marriage convalidated, which is a term used to describe the process by which a civil marriage is made valid, or holy, according to the canon law of the Church.