Weddings

A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. Dave Meurer, Daze of our Wives

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. Paul Tournier

The Christian ideal of marriage is based on Christ’s words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism…. As a consequence, Christianity teaches that marriage is for life. C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, pp 95-96

Other than your baptism, your wedding day may be the most important day of your life. In something of the same way as your baptism, it is both a dying and a rebirth. So it is a day which requires much thought and much prayer. At Brentwood Oaks, we believe in marriage. We believe it in so much that we do not celebrate services of marriage without proper planning. We wrote our congregational guidelines in plain language in order to encourage serious thought about this holy event.

We offer both pre-engagement (2-3 conversations) and pre-marital conversations without charge. You will find the six-session premarital conversations to be enjoyable and useful as you plan to spend the rest of your lives together. In premarital conversations we use the PREPARE/ENRICH inventory. There is a $35 fee for the use of this instrument.

Our facility is well-suited to the conduct to rehearsals and rehearsal dinners as well as weddings and wedding receptions. A quick review of our facilities policy will answer many of your questions.

Caitlin Tyler, our wedding coordinator, will be happy to visit with you about other important details