Getting married in a church

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by KTrain

Not if you love your future wife and she really wants it...

Pick your battles dude.

Id suggest that if he was atheist and his wife was religious their marriage would be doomed from the start.

[Reaper]

When my wife and I were married my parents asked us if we were going to get married in a church as it was their preference.

My response was "Neither one of us attend any church and I certainly no longer subscribe to the religious beliefs that you do. Getting married in a church would be a farce and a lie as far as we're concerned we refuse to start our marriage on a lie."

They were respectful of our wishes and it was never brought up again. We ended up being married in Devonian Gardens by a Commisioner of Oaths.

[TylerSVT]

Originally Posted by KTrain

Not if you love your future wife and she really wants it...

Pick your battles dude.

She is agnostic like i am. We both don't care for God.


IMO fundamental things like that are impossible to get around if you have differing views... best just to not get married in that world.

[TylerSVT]

Cool place to get married would be Readers Rock Garden. In the summer it is so beautiful

[macker]

http://www.cschurch.ca/
If it is a big wedding this could be an option. Easy access to the airport and hotels for out of town guests.

[CaptainCrunch]

Doesn't anyone go to Vegas and get married by Elvis anymore?

[arloiginla]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I went to a wedding at Knox United last summer, heck of a venue for a wedding.

Expensive though. Went and checked it out as a potential venue and they want obscene amounts of money...too lazy to check but I think it was like $10,000 for like an hour IIRC.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by arloiginla

Expensive though. Went and checked it out as a potential venue and they want obscene amounts of money...too lazy to check but I think it was like $10,000 for like an hour IIRC.

Holy *&^!, I had no idea it could be that much. Now I'm guessing the wedding I went to had to have cost at least $30,000 (reception was at the Hyatt) due to the size of the wedding.

I still think it was the best church setting for a wedding that I've attended. That same summer we also had friends that got married at Hillhurst United, while very nice it just can't compare to Knox for the grandeur of the setting.

The urbanist in me loves that feeling of coming out from the wedding and being right in the middle of downtown, plenty of cars driving by honking at the couple, people stopping to watch as they were walking by. I love it.

I got married out in the country though, it was the wedding my wife was dreaming about since she was a kid. And even though I didn't get my skyscraper background it was an amazing location to do it. Outdoor wedding though, so you have to roll the dice on the weather, we got lucky and had a perfect blue sky day.

[Knut]

Sacred Heart was $500 to hold it there.. + a "tip" to the priest. By far the cheapest part of our wedding.

[FlamesAddiction]

I hated making this decision when I got hitched. I sort of wanted it in a church just for tradition and to make my dad happy. It wasn't a religious decision to me.

My wife wanted an outdoors wedding and for her aunt (who is a minister) to marry us. I let her have it without a fight, but I had to get some guff for it.

Having said that, my wife's family paid for the entire wedding so I had no right to protest anything.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Having said that, my wife's family paid for the entire wedding so I had no right to protest anything.

Thus making you their b***h for life.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Doesn't anyone go to Vegas and get married by Elvis anymore?

My associate did last year, and the entire office went for the occasion.

[arloiginla]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Holy *&^!, I had no idea it could be that much. Now I'm guessing the wedding I went to had to have cost at least $30,000 (reception was at the Hyatt) due to the size of the wedding.

I still think it was the best church setting for a wedding that I've attended. That same summer we also had friends that got married at Hillhurst United, while very nice it just can't compare to Knox for the grandeur of the setting.

The urbanist in me loves that feeling of coming out from the wedding and being right in the middle of downtown, plenty of cars driving by honking at the couple, people stopping to watch as they were walking by. I love it.

I got married out in the country though, it was the wedding my wife was dreaming about since she was a kid. And even though I didn't get my skyscraper background it was an amazing location to do it. Outdoor wedding though, so you have to roll the dice on the weather, we got lucky and had a perfect blue sky day.

I just checked out the site again and now price quotes are only done over the phone. Maybe they are negotiable now; but I bet you won't pay less than $5,000.

Nice place though. I used to sing there every year for ChoralFest and CarolFest. Awesome acoustics.

edit: Apparently it's 5,000 just for the rental of the facility...not including anything else.