Contact the church office. Please call Beth Rogers at 941-924-1323 x 214 to request the date for your rehearsal & wedding.
Set up a consultation appointment and tour of our facilities with your wedding consultant. Your wedding consultant will work with you to make sure your wedding day runs smoothly and reflects your wishes including but not limited to: consultation with our music department, our catering department, and the facilities staff. He/she will be present at the rehearsal and wedding to make sure everything goes off without a hitch.
Get your Florida marriage license. Clerk of Circuit Court, Sarasota County Courthouse, 941-951-5377.
RULES & NOTES
To ensure that everyone knows the timing and their role, it’s best if everyone is in attendance at the rehearsal (bride, groom, parents of the bride, attendants, ushers and musicians). It should take about an hour and is usually the day before the wedding in the afternoon.
Photographs and videography should be conducted subtly. Photographs should be (with the exception of the procession and recession) taken without a flash, and your photographer and/or videographer should plan on documenting the event from the back or, in the case of the Sanctuary, from the balcony. The balcony offers some great vantage points from which to work. Your photographer is welcome to walk through the worship space with the wedding consultant in advance of the ceremony.
We have dressing rooms for both the bride and groom and their attendants. The wedding consultant can show you the options.
We have a beautiful candelabra which you are welcome to use, or you may bring a unity candle. We have a unity candle holder.
Our beautiful worship spaces may minimize the need for floral arrangements.
Please do not place flowers on the communion table.
Flower petals (if used) must be silk.
Save the birds! No rice please, but bubbles, birdseed, and sunflower seeds are welcome outside.
Ribbons and bows are a lovely addition to the pews. Please do not use tape, tacks, or nails.
We’d hate for anything to be lost. Please make arrangements for all personal items to be removed when the ceremony is over.
No alcohol, no smoking inside, and please no food or drink inside the Sanctuary or Chapel.
BOOKING FEES
Chapel or Sanctuary
No cost for members
Sanctuary
$1,000 for non members
Chapel
$600 for non members
Wedding Consultant
$300
Audio/Video Technician
$100 – Members; $150-Non Members
Livestream
$200-Members; $250-Non Members
Payment is due two weeks in advance of your wedding.
Checks can be made payable to: Church of the Palms 3224 Bee Ridge Road Sarasota, FL 34239-7299
PROFESSIONAL FEES
Organist
$300 (Separate check made out to Organist)
Soloist
$200 (Separate check made out to soloist/musician)
Pastor
$300 (Separate check made out to Officiant)
Professional fees should be made payable to the individual and delivered two weeks prior to the event. Your consultant will mail you a list of names, titles and check amounts.
