Getting Married at Hudson Community Chapel We want every couple to experience a memorable and sacred wedding service. Marriage is a covenant through which a man and a woman offer vows before God to live out together their lives of discipleship. Our policies about weddings emerge from this conviction as stated in the Bible, our authority.
General Wedding Policy
♦ Since our purpose is to establish Christian marriages in the context of a loving community, weddings
are reserved for individuals as followers of Christ and regular attendees of HCC and its campuses for
at least six months prior to submitting their application to be married.
♦ We feel an obligation under the Lord to prepare HCC and campuses’ engaged couples as best we can
for their life together. Therefore, couples from HCC who want to be married by an HCC pastor must go
through the HCC Pre-Marital Mentoring process.
♦ We believe sexual abstinence before marriage is God’s design for each couple. We also believe living
separately from each other until the wedding day is important in creating space for you to maintain the
boundaries needed to do your pre-marital mentoring process well. Therefore, we ask you as a couple,
to covenant with each other and God, to abstain sexually throughout the pre-marital period until you
are married, and to live separately until your wedding day. If there are any circumstances that you
think merit special consideration, please explain on the reverse side of the wedding application.
Steps for Planning a Wedding
1. Attend the next scheduled Wedding Orientation Class if you are considering Hudson Community
Chapel for your wedding. It is important for you to know our policies and procedure for weddings.
[Click here to register for the next class]
2. Contact Tammy Nowak at the church office, 330.650-9533, x350 or
tammy.nowak@hudsonchapel.org, for a wedding application.
3. Fill out and submit wedding application.
4. When notified that your application has been received along with fee, contact Pastor Jim Colledge’s
office to schedule your interview.
5. Upon approval of your wedding application, a mentoring couple will be assigned to you and you begin
meeting with them.
6. Meet with wedding coordinator to plan wedding details.
7. One or two weeks before your wedding, meet with your officiating pastor to go over the ceremony.
8. Get married and live happily ever after!
