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Table Summarizing the Use of Ritual Masses, Masses for Various Needs, Masses of the Dead

This table is adapted from that found in the Ceremonial of Bishops, Appendix III.

DAYRitual
Mass
"V1"
Note (A)
Var. Occ.
Votive
"V2&V3"
Funeral
Mass
"D1"
Special
Mass
Dead
"D2"
Note (E)
Daily
Mass
Dead
"D3"
1 Solemn. of oblig.
2 Sun. Adv.,Lent,East.
3 H. Thurs,East. Trid
NONONONONO
4 Solemn. non-obl, All Souls
5 Ash Wed, M-W H Week
6 Easter octave weekdays
NONOokNONO
7 Sun. Christmas, Ord Time
8 Feasts
ok
Note (F)
Perm. of
bishop
Note (B)
okNONO
9 Dec 17-24 weekdays
10 Christmas octave
11 Lent weekdays
okPerm. of
bishop
Note (B)
okokNO
12 Oblig. mem.
13 Wkdys Adv to Dec 16
14 Wkdys Christmas after Jan 2
15 Wkdys Easter after octave
okDiscr. of
rect. of
church
or celebr.
Note (C)
okokNO
16 Weekdays Ord Time okokokokok

(A) cf. 2002 GIRM 372. NOTE: Note "Ritual Masses" include the Nuptial Mass. Thus, on Sundays of Advent, Lent and Easter, and on solemnities, the Nuptial Mass is not permitted, but a wedding may take place using the Mass of the Day, See note (F) below.
(B) cf. 2002 GIRM 374. Permission (or direction) by bishop is for "serious need or pastoral advantage."
(C) cf. 2002 GIRM 376. The rector of the church or the celebrant may make a decision based on a "real need or pastoral advantage."
(E) cf. 2002 GIRM 381. These are the Masses "on receiving news of a death, for the final burial, or on the first anniversary."
(F) See the Introduction to Rite of Marriage, no. 34 (1990 ed.), for details about when a nuptial Mass may be used and alternatives for weddings during Mass.
In summary, the Nuptial Mass may NOT be used on Sundays of Advent, Lent, and Easter, during Holy Week, during the Easter Octave, on Ash Wednesday and All Souls (Nov 2), on Solemnities that occur on Sundays (e.g., Epiphany, Pentecost, the Body and Blood of Christ), and on all other Solemnities (either of obligation or not) (e.g., Aug 15, Jun 24).
On these days, if a wedding takes place during Mass, the Mass of the day is to be celebrated (rather than the Nuptial Mass) using the readings of the Sunday or feast, but the Nuptial blessing is included and a solemn blessing for weddings may be used.
If a wedding takes place during Mass on a solemnity that is not of obligation, the Mass of the solemnity is to be used but one reading may be chosen from those proposed in the Rite of Marriage (cf. 1990 Intro. Rite of Marriage, no. 34)
On Sundays of the Christmas Season and in Ordinary Time, if a wedding takes place during a parish Mass, the Mass of the Sunday is used (with one reading from the Rite of Marriage). On these Sundays, if a wedding takes place at a Mass which is not a parish Mass, the Nuptial Mass may be used.
"Celebration of marriage on Good Friday and Holy Saturday is altogether forbidden." (1990 Intro. Rite of Marriage, no. 32) This specifically applies to marriages outside Mass since all Masses are forbidden on these day, before the Easter Vigil.