The article contains an analysis of the second part of the general decree of Polish Bishop’s Conference, accepted on March 17, 2017, on the subject of premarital, pastoral and canonical preparation with the engaged couple prior to the celebration of the canonical sacramental marriage. The article discusses regulations pertaining to the matrimonial consent, mixed marriages and other marriages similar to them, civil effects of marriage as well as the celebration and registration of such marriages. What is more, the author presents the original and new legislation of the Polish Bishop’s Conference in the forum of the Catholic Church’s marriage contracted by a Catholic before an Easter rite priest without a proper dispensation from the canonical form of marriage. The last part contains an analysis of the forms to be used in the procedure above.