Wedding Guidelines
Guidelines
(1) Deposit
A RM 400.00 deposit in cash is required that is refundable, not earlier than one week after the wedding if all facilities and the PA system are left in proper order with no damage and without undue clean up work required. Kindly make your payment at the Church Office upon confirmation of booking.
(2) St Andrew’s Organist
RM 150.00 should be given to Church organist if his/her service is required for a rehearsal and the wedding service.
(3) Pastor
You must arrange for your own pastor following his requirements for counselling, rehearsal, type of service, and amount of renumeration.
(4) Rehearsal
If you plan a rehearsal, state in the form or call the Church Office to book a time well in advance. In weddings involving our Pastor, it is necessary to arrange for a one-hour wedding rehearsal. Please be on time for the rehearsal.
(5) Wedding Flowers/Decorations
In arranging flowers/decorations, please refrain from using pins, nails, wire, cellophane tape (any form of sticky tape) to fix flowers to the pew or walls. Please use soft ribbons instead. Flower stands can be made available at times. Inform the caretaker day and time of decorating.
(6) Decorating Time
For decoration of the Church, you are allowed a duration of only two (2) hours maximum.
(7) Church Furnishings
We ask you to take care of our Church furnishings, such as the piano, the communion table, the pulpit, and also the piano in the hall. We do not want the Pulpit, Lectern (Reading desk), Piano, Communion Table and chairs to be moved around the Sanctuary or removed from the Church to the hall. On no account are any decorations to be put on or near our pipe organ, or on the cross. Our caretaker will arrange the furniture in the Church and the hall.
(8) Music
Weddings that take place in St Andrew’s Church are a reflection upon this Church. Therefore, we honour the taste and traditions of the Church. It is customary to use typical wedding music coupled with hymns and sacred solos. If you want to have pipe organ music, please check if the Church organist is available. Otherwise most couples are content with the piano.
(9) Confetti and Rice
We ask you to remind your guests not to throw confetti, rice or flower petals around the Church, the hall or anywhere of the premises. The rice attracts insects and vermin, the petals and confetti are blown everywhere by the fans or wind. Soap bubbles are also not allowed.
(10) Video Camera
If a video camera is used, we strongly advise the wide angle lens type that does not require an arc lamp. The arc lamps take away from the joyful solemnity of the occasion and interfere with the spirit of worship. Therefore, no lamps and stands. We have consulted with video experts and are quite convinced that there is no need at all for the use of special overhead lighting for video tape recording.
(11) No Cooking at St. Andrew’s
If you are having your reception here, please inform your caterer that no cooking is allowed on our grounds or in the building. Please also inform your guests not to bring food/drink into the Sanctuary or any of the classrooms.
(12) Wedding without reception
For wedding without reception – the Church will only be available half an hour before the wedding and not more than one hour after the wedding has started (i.e. maximum time to use the Church is two and a half hours).
(13) Wedding With Reception (*Receptions are ONLY available for Church Members)
The Church will be available half an hour before the wedding. Maximum time to use the Sanctuary and Fellowship hall should not be more than four hours. (N.B. Non Church members have to request for use of Fellowship Hall and will have to adhere to St Andrew’s policy of only serving finger food – eg. sandwiches, curry puffs, or at the most, fried rice and meehoon – if permission is granted.)
(14) No Sunday School Rooms Used
All Sunday School rooms including those between the courtyard and the Manse are locked and are not available for wedding reception use.
(15) Advance booking
Please make your booking no earlier than four months before your wedding date.
We are happy and privileged to share our facilities and we are confident that bridal couples, pastors and elders will welcome our emphasis upon the need to uphold the “solemn joy” of Christian worship on all wedding occasions. In the event that your wedding is being conducted by a pastor or celebrant other than from St Andrew’s or Logos Presbyterian Churches, as a matter of courtesy, please have your pastor contact the Pastor of St Andrew’s as soon as your requested use of the Church is confirmed. Our desire is not to become unduly restrictive but to encourage those leading worship and participating to heed the apostolic injunction, “Let all things be done decently and in order”. If you have further questions about the facilities of St Andrew’s, please contact the church secretary.
Thank you for your cooperation.