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Wedding Booklet Wedding Booklet 1701 8th Street SW Altoona, Iowa 50009 (515) 967-4818 www.LccAltoona.org Last update: October 2017 Wedding Booklet TABLE OF CONTENTS Congratulations ......................................................................... 3 A Word about Weddings ........................................................... 3 Getting Started ........................................................................... 4 Fees ............................................................................................ 4 Music at Your Wedding ............................................................. 6 Sound at Your Wedding ............................................................. 6 Photography and Video at Your Wedding .................................. 6-7 Bridal Worksheets ...................................................................... 8 Order of Service for Christian Marriage ..................................... 9 Suggested Bible Readings .......................................................... 14 Suggested Music Selections …………………………………………………….. 15 Wedding Worksheet .................................................................. 16 Processional Worksheet ............................................................ 17 Expectations of the Wedding Party ........................................... 19 Guidelines for Decorating and Clean Up at your Wedding ......... 20-21 Remarriage, Blended Families and Weddings ............................ 22-24 Wedding Fees Worksheet …………………………………………………………. 25 2 10/18/2017 Wedding Booklet CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR APPROACHING WEDDING! We count it a blessing to help you prepare for both your wedding and marriage. We pray that God will bless you both as we work together in planning your wedding day and that your marriage will reflect His love. Please read the following pages thoroughly as they contain information that you will need to know to make your wedding go smoothly. JUST A WORD ABOUT WEDDINGS… We do weddings through LCC because God loves weddings and we want to help you discover His best for your marriage. Weddings that we do here, will, by their very nature, be Christian in content and format—that means that we bless people in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The content of the meditation will invite couples to look to Jesus Christ as the source of life and love. The readings included in the wedding ceremony will be selected from the Bible, because we believe it to be God’s inspired Word. We believe that marriage is ultimately a spiritual union between one man and one woman that seeks to express God’s desire for all couples— that the two become “one flesh” (Genesis 2: 24). For more information about our congregation, please visit our website at www.lccaltoona.org. 3 10/18/2017 Wedding Booklet GETTING STARTED To schedule a wedding date, complete the Marriage Request Form online at www.lccaltoona.org/life-events. A wedding is considered scheduled when a $100 deposit has been made and the date confirmed by a LCC Pastor. Until the deposit is received, the date is not held. Wedding Fees: o Pastoral Care $175 o Wedding Coordinator $175 o Sound Tech $ 75 o Housekeeping $ 75 o TOTAL FEES $500 Offsite Weddings: The fee for an LCC pastor to do an offsite wedding within 30 miles of Des Moines is $250. For any location beyond 30 miles, the pastor may add mileage to this rate at their discretion. The remainder of the fees may be paid to the church office or your Wedding Coordinator at any time before your rehearsal. Make checks payable to “Lutheran Church of the Cross”. Officiants – All weddings held at Lutheran Church of the Cross will be officiated by one of our LCC Pastors. You will be assigned a Wedding Coordinator two months in advance of your wedding. Your Wedding Coordinator will: Be available to you throughout the planning process Arrange your Ceremony Planning Meeting Oversee your Rehearsal Attend / Assist at your Wedding PREMARITAL COUNSELING: Premarital counseling is an opportunity for couples to continue to grow in their relationship with one another and with God. It gives couples great insight into their relationship (both strengths and areas of growth) and provides tools to help make their marriage strong. Couples getting married at LCC complete an online assessment ($35.00 per person), attend pre-marriage workshops, and meet personally with an LCC pastor. Premarriage workshops are a requirement for all weddings held at LCC. Other than the online assessment fee, the cost of the workshops and pastoral meeting is included in the fees for the wedding. 4 10/18/2017 Wedding Booklet The Pastor officiating the ceremony will contact the couple to set up the individual counseling two months prior to the ceremony. You will be required to have your marriage license. Bring the license to the rehearsal and give to the Wedding Coordinator at your rehearsal. Polk County Marriage Licenses: 286-3781 5 10/18/2017 Wedding Booklet MUSIC AT YOUR WEDDING LCC has pre-recorded “Wedding Music” CD’s with traditional wedding songs. You may use those, or you may provide your own music. If you provide your own music, we prefer it to be on a CD or MP3 format, and provided to the Wedding Coordinator one week in advance. All music selections must be approved by either the wedding coordinator or the pastor. Vocalists and Pianists – Optional, additional fees apply LCC has many talented vocalists and pianists who would be happy to help with your wedding. The fee for a Pianist is $125, and for a vocalist is $75. Contact the church office for a current list of musicians: 515-967-4818, or [email protected]. SOUND AT YOUR WEDDING All LCC weddings require an LCC authorized and trained Sound Technician. This will automatically be provided, and is included in the Wedding Fees. Lance Demers, Worship Technology Coordinator, will schedule this person for you. PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEOGRAPHY AT YOUR WEDDING Photography Photography is an important part of every wedding; however it can be disruptive if not handled properly. Please pass on this page of guidelines to your photographer (Professional or Non-professional) 1. Saturday weddings scheduled at 3:00 pm Photographs are allowed in the Worship Center from 12:00 pm – 2:30 PM Outdoor photography is allowed at any time. Photographs in the Worship Center after the wedding are not possible because of a late afternoon worship gathering. (If you require the sanctuary after the ceremony, you must schedule your wedding earlier in the day. The Worship Center must be clear by 4 pm). 2. Weddings at other times will arrange photography with their Wedding Coordinator. 3. Photography at all LCC Wedding Ceremonies Flash photography is not allowed during the ceremony. Photographers are allowed to stand in the back or the side of the sanctuary. Photographers are allowed to use the balcony. Photographers ARE NOT ALLOWED in the stage/altar area or the front of the church during the ceremony. 6 10/18/2017 Wedding Booklet Video Recording at your Wedding Outside videographers ARE allowed. LCC does not provide video recording of Wedding Services. Video Presentations at your Wedding * – Optional, additional fees apply This is not a required part of the wedding program. This is a service that is available to you should you choose to use it. We can project video onto the projection screen at the front of the Worship Center. The bride and groom are responsible to put the presentation together and it must be in MP4 format on a Jump Drive. The presentation needs to be tested in the Worship Center at least 1 week prior to the wedding. The fee for this service is $25. Contact the church office at 515-967-4818 or [email protected]. * Please note: These presentations take place either before the wedding while people are being seated or after the wedding while people are being ushered out. 7 10/18/2017 Wedding Booklet BRIDAL WORKSHEETS The following sheets are used for your Ceremony Planning Meeting. Your Wedding Service Coordinator will set up your meeting at least 60 days prior to your wedding. The Coordinators are here to help you through the planning process, if you have questions or would like to meet with your Coordinator earlier, please call them directly. We ask that you read these sheets, fill out any arrangements you have already made, and bring them to your meeting. Please note: The use of wagons to haul children down the center aisle can be dangerous. Wagons have no backs and children have often fallen out when suddenly jerked forward. The sloped floor tends to increase the speed at which they travel and those pulling the wagon may not be mature enough to handle the task. Please consider finding another way to involve little ones in the ceremony. 8 10/18/2017 Wedding Booklet ORDER OF SERVICE FOR CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE Prelude This is music played as guests are being seated before the service. Immediate family members are seated. The Unity Candle individual candles may be lit at this time. Groom and Pastor take their place in front of worship center. Processional Processional music begins, and the wedding party comes to the altar and stands in front of the pastor. The guests are invited to stand before the bride makes her entrance. The father of the bride may accompany the bride to the front of the altar. The Welcome The Pastor welcomes guests to this wedding service. Guests are encouraged to turn off cell phones, and reminded that flash photography is not permitted during the service. Any announcements the couple would like the Pastor to make would be shared with guests at this time. The Invocation P: We gather this day, knowing that God shows up for weddings. And so we give our attention to the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as He is here with us today to bless this marriage. The Opening Prayer P: Let us pray: We give you great thanks today for bringing ______________ & _______________ together in love. We also thank you for all their family and friends who have gathered with them to celebrate today. We ask that we would be attentive to your presence here, that we may be filled with the joy and love and peace that only you can bring. Bless this wedding. We pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.
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