Weddings

        Greetings

We are thrilled to be part of your forthcoming wedding plans. We take seriously and want to make a positive contribution to your life together. With this in mind, we have put together a booklet which will answer most of your questions about weddings here at St. Andrew's. Speaking on behalf of our pastors and Wedding Guild, I am...

Yours in Christ,

John A. Huffman, Jr.

Senior Minister

 

Wedding Services


If you are interested in St. Andrew’s conducting your wedding ceremony,
contact Susan MacDonald, Wedding Coordinator at 949-574-2286.

St. Andrew's has both a Chapel and Sanctuary available to meet your needs. The Chapel seats up to 200 persons. The Sanctuary seats up to 1200.

St. Andrew's does require premarital counseling with one of our pastors. That pastor must preside over the marriage ceremony. However, guest pastors are allowed.

St. Andrew's provides both full-service and family option weddings. For current prices and benefits, please call our Wedding Coordinator at 949-574-2286 or click here to leave an information request.

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A PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE

O God of love. You have established marriage for the welfare and happiness of humankind. Yours was the plan and only with You can we work it out with joy. You have said, "It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a help-mate for him." Now our joys are doubled, since the happiness of the one becomes the happiness of the other. Our burdens are now halved, since when we share then, we divide the load.

Bless this couple. Bless them as providers of food, clothing, and all the other necessities of life. Sustain them in all the exactions and pressures of their life's vocation. In their labor may they provide for each other but never let them work so hard that they forget to give each other love and attention.

Give them tenderness that will make them great, a deep sense of understanding, and a strong faith in You. Give each of them that inner beauty that never fades, that eternal youth is found in holding fast the things that never age.

Teach them both that marriage is not living merely for each other; it is two uniting and joining hands to serve You. Give them a great spiritual purpose in life. May they seek first the Kindgom of God and His righteousness, and then other things will be given to them. May they not expect that perfection in each other that belongs alone to You. May they minimize each other's weaknesses, be sensitive to magnify each other's points of strength, and see each other through a lover's kind and patient eyes.

Give them enought tears to keep them tender, enought hurts to keep them humane, enough of failure to keep them humble, and enough of success to make them sure they walk with You.

May they never take each other's love for granted but always experience that breathless wonder that exclaims, "Out of all this world you have chosen me."

When life is done and the sun is setting, may this couple be found then as now, still hand in hand, still thanking You for each other. May they serve You happily, faithfully together, until at last one shall lay the other into Your eternal arms.

This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ who loves us and gave Himself for us.

Amen

(Adapted from a prayer by Dr. Louis H. Evans)

 

 

 
 
   
 
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
600 St. Andrews Road, Newport Beach CA. 92663
949-631-2880 info@standrewspres.org