Keep the ceremony setting and the close portraits.
The opening ceremony view includes the couple within the curved architecture of the church. A later portrait brings their faces together beneath the veil. One photograph establishes the setting; the other gives the expressions more of the frame.
I would confirm ceremony photography rules first, then plan a separate portrait window and the family combinations you want. That gives the ceremony its own space and lets the closer portraits happen without interrupting the service.
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The Wedding
I was privileged enough to photograph Ashley and Ryan's wedding last year at Wilmington, NC Catholic Church. The Basilica itself was beautiful. I really had to slow down because you could hear my footsteps as my second photographer and I tapped around the aisle.
The ambient lighting or available lighting mostly came from the windows which gave me enough to keep from getting blurry images. The high ceilings would've probably been impossible to bounce flash light if we were allowed. Sadly, the church didn't allow it.
It'd avoid a kit lens or camera as they would be the worst cameras to be used in the church.
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