The Misadventures Continue

Well, ever since the St. Andrew incident last Friday, we have been on the lookout for other, more affordable churches. David and I discussed the matter some more, and we decided not to get married at St. Andrew. We would rather spend the money on something else, perhaps the honeymoon. Thus, I went to two churches today. The first was Christ United Methodist Church, in Farmers Branch. This is a church that I attempted to vist a couple of weeks ago, but was closed during the time I was there. Anywho, I am pulling up to the church, and I saw the marquee out front, with the pastor's name on it. It turns out that I know the pastor there! Six and a half years ago, my father decided that our family needed to start attending church as a family, so we went to a little Methodist church around the corner called Aldersgate. We would go to the early service, where maybe a dozen of us would sit in a circle and have the service. The pastors would just wear suits and be drinking coffee as they talked. They also would get up during the service and play guitars while we all sang together. It was a great church and a good starting point for a new Christian. I enjoyed going there, the only reason I stopped was because they did not have any people there that were my age, and I felt a little out of place, so that's when I started going to Prince of Peace.

Anywho, back to today. The pastor at Christ UMC is the same pastor that was at Aldersgate when I was there. He was not at the church today, and I doubt he would remember me, but I do remember him. The ladies in the office helped me find the packet of wedding information. Actually, one of them had made copies of the packet the week before, so she knew what she was looking for, the other lady and I were just helping her look. Those ladies at that church were funny (in a good way!) I really liked them. I examined the guidelines and fees. They were less than half of the fees at St. Andrew. I still need to talk to the wedding coordinator there, ask her a few questions. One of the things we want to do is bring in our own minister. We know some ordained ministers who are friends of ours and would like to use one of them. It would be really great if they could do the whole ceremony, instead of just assisting. I don't know for sure what the policy is at Christ UMC, but I think we could have an outside minister officiate over the whole thing.

The other church was Chapel Hill, where I had visited before. This time, the wedding coordinator was there, but I didn't get to visit with her until my lunch break, as she was in a meeting when I came the first time. I did talk with a lady who is a member of that church, who let me look at the sanctuary again, she was really nice. Once I met with the wedding coordinator, we had a nice chat. As it turns out, they will pretty much let us do whatever we want for the service. We can have an outside minister. We can have our own organist. We can do whatever music we want (within reason, obviously). The more I talked to her, the more excited I got about this church. Now, I still have other churches to check out, and David is going to visit a church tomorrow during his lunch break, but Chapel Hill is pretty high on the list of possibilites. Oh! They don't have any particular time when we have to have the ceremony, so we can choose whatever time we would like. I'm thinking about five in the afternoon would be a good time. So, the adventure continues.....