Welcome
Dear Future Bride and Groom,
Congratulations on your engagement! We are very happy for you and glad you want your wedding at Park Cities Presbyterian Church (hereafter referred to as PCPC).
Our church policy is to invite PCPC members, a child of a member, or members in good standing of other PCA (Presbyterian Church of America) churches to have a wedding ceremony at PCPC. If you are interested in becoming a member, please refer to the New Members Class area. PCPC also requires that couples who get married at our church complete UNION, the class which is offered once in the fall and again in the spring.
This web area is designed to help you get the information you need to start your wedding process. Please read through all of the wedding information on our wedding website. You will find important information to help make this special occasion glorify God and occur as smoothly and beautifully as you envision.
Scheduling
Contact the PCPC Wedding Coordinator to set your wedding date.
Candie Carver
PCPC Wedding Coordinator
E-mail: candie.carver@pcpc.org
Phone: 214-224-2747
Upon setting a wedding date, we ask you to please fill out the Marriage Form.
The PCPC Wedding Coordinator will forward your completed forms to the minister you have requested (if possible); otherwise, she will suggest another PCPC minister for you and will give you the name and phone number of his assistant. It is then your responsibility to call and request an appointment with him. At this meeting, the minister will decide with you regarding your wedding plans. When he has given his approval, he will notify the PCPC Wedding Coordinator, who will call you to discuss and activate your tentative wedding date and time for your wedding and rehearsal. She will also schedule your first appointment with her.
Once you have met with the minister and he has agreed to marry you, please mail a check payable to PCPC, in the amount of $250.00, to the attention of the PCPC Wedding Coordinator. This deposit is non-refundable but will be applied to your wedding fees. Please do not finalize your wedding date until the PCPC Wedding Coordinator calls you to confirm that she has received your payment.
In summary, your wedding date will not be officially placed on the PCPC calendar until the following three requirements are met:
- Wedding Date “penciled in” on the PCPC calendar by Wedding Coordinator
- Completed Marriage Form
- Couple meets with and receives approval to marry at PCPC by a PCPC minister
- Payment of $250.00 is received by the PCPC Wedding Coordinator. For information regarding the required fees for getting married at PCPC and other questions, please contact the PCPC Wedding Coordinator.
- Schedule first in-person meeting with PCPC Wedding Coordinator
Rehearsals and weddings are not scheduled during:
- Holy Week (beginning Palm Sunday weekend)
- Easter (Easter weekend)
- Fourth of July
- Thanksgiving Day (Thanksgiving weekend)
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
- New Year’s Eve
- New Year’s Day (the weekend after New Year’s Day or the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day or on weekends where Communion is observed).
We will schedule a small Chapel wedding with no reception at 4:00 pm on Sunday afternoons during the year (calendar permitting).
Counseling & UNION
Preliminary Counseling Appointment with Minister
The ministers and Session of Park Cities Presbyterian Church feel that marrying a couple is much more than performing the ceremony. They believe strongly that you should have every opportunity to be prepared for a Christ-centered and biblically grounded marriage, one which has all the potential of being everything our Lord intends marriage to be.
For these reasons we ask that you give careful attention to this material. We also request that you allow sufficient time prior to your marriage for the premarital process which we believe is important.
Once the PCPC Wedding Coordinator receives your completed forms, she will call you to discuss your preferred wedding date (and will “pencil in” a date for you on the PCPC calendar). She will also forward a copy of your paperwork to the minister that you have requested (you will be notified to contact his assistant for an appointment). He will want to meet with both of you at this time. This is an opportunity for you to become better acquainted with the minister and him with you. PCPC’s ministers will agree to marry you only after the completion of this introductory session. This meeting is also necessary to receive approval for using an outside minister.
Please do not finalize your wedding date until you have had this preliminary counseling appointment.
Our ministers may not perform ceremonies for couples when one is a Christian and the other is not. In addition, our ministers can only marry a divorced person in the event that the divorce was for biblical reasons. If either of you has been divorced, the minister will want to visit with you during the initial appointment regarding the circumstances involved.
Our church also takes seriously God’s Word in Hebrews 13:4, which states, “Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled.” For this reason, we will not marry a couple who is living together and who is not willing to turn from this, move apart from each other and abstain from all sexual relations until their wedding date.
UNION Pre-Marriage Course
UNION is a nine-week course for seriously dating, engaged, and newly married couples. We will cover topics such as the Biblical meaning of marriage, expectations, communication, in-laws, Biblical roles of husband and wife, money and stewardship, conflict management, forgiveness, and intimacy. Teaching will occur in a large group setting, followed by small group discussions. We will meet Tuesday evenings at PCPC from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. The cost is $30 per person to cover materials and a celebration dinner on the final night. For questions, please contact Melissa Hecht at melissa.hecht@pcpc.org.
Contact Us
Candie Carver
PCPC Wedding Coordinator
E-mail: candie.carver@pcpc.org
Phone: 214-224-2747