Marriage

Being members of the parish is not required for couples to be married here. To be married at Holy Communion, either bride or groom must be baptized, and the couple must complete an inventory called PREPARE and take part in a two-hour interpretation of that inventory that focuses on a couple’s strength and growth areas. The couple is required to attend one of our “Good Beginnings: Engaged Couples Workshop” events and must use the ceremony based on The Book of Common Prayer.

Contact: The Rev. Ollie Rencher(orencher [at] holycommunion [dot] org)

Good Beginnings: Engaged Couples' Workshop

We take marriage seriously at CHC! We have a great program for those who wish to marry and in the spring and fall we have a workshop for marriage enrichment.  Anyone who is interested to participate can. This is not just for parishioners. The Vestry voted to allow any couple to marry here, provided they participate in our marriage preparation program and are willing to be married in the Episcopal tradition. We’ve had many couples take us up on the offer who were not only looking for a place to marry, but for a church in which to worship. It’s exciting to be able to offer our program of preparation to couples who were going to marry anyway, but were likely not to receive any preparation at all. This is a real ministry to our community.

Engaged Workshop is led by married, trained, but "imperfect couples." The format consists of brief presentations by the couples followed by time for the participant couples to do some private sharing about the topic as it relates to them. While some time is given to group sharing, by far the majority of the time is just for the couple.