My fiancee and I moved back to the Austin area around three years ago, but we still don't have a church here. For Holidays, we still go with family to a church in the San Antonio area. We are having our wedding reception in Austin and want to have a traditional wedding in a church. However, most churches require you to be a member. Can someone recommend a church in the NW Austin area, where we can just pay without being a member or one that doesn't take three classes to join? Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, or non-denominational, please. We just want to get the date booked, so we can wrap up other loose-ends. Thanks for the help.
I think that First Presbyterian on Mesa and Spicewood allows non-member weddings. Nice little church, convenient location -- give them a call and see.
First Methodist (it's downtown, not NW) allows non-members and they don't have any requirements that I know of. We brought in a Methodist preacher from another city to do the ceremony and he didn't require any classes but I guess it may be up to the officiant. Riverbend on 360 is definitely the most lenient, you can do whatever you want there and have whatever decorations whereas the more traditional churches have a lot of rules you have to follow.
We were married in a Catholic church in Wailuku, Maui. The bride Catholic, the groom not, but we had done the engaged encounter thing. Over the phone to Anchroage, the priest there explained to the Mishtress: "if we didn't do mixed weddings, if we didn't do weddings of non members, we wouldn't be doing any weddings." A church that doesn't want to handle your wedding is a church you don't want to have anything to do with.
