Weddings

Your wedding is one of the most significant occasions in your life. A time when you gather with your family and friends to publicly celebrate the love you share. Eastwood Uniting Church provides several beautiful settings for weddings. The prayerful intimacy of the Old Chapel, with its stained glass, or the airy and contemporary facilities of the St Andrews Chapel, with its grand pipe organ, makes Eastwood Uniting a popular venue for many couples.
You are welcome to contact our Office to arrange to come in and savour the beauty of our Church.

What happens at a Wedding?

  • The Minister welcomes everyone present and reminds them of God's purposes in instituting marriage.
    Marriage is given that a couple may enrich and encourage each other in every part of their life together...
  • There are readings from the Bible and an opportunity to hear what the wisdom of the Scriptures have to say about marriage.
  • The couple promise to give themselves to one another "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, so long as we both shall live."
  • Wedding rings are blessed and exchanged as a sign of the vows that have been taken, and that the commitment is unending.
  • The Minister blesses the married couple.
  • Prayers are offered by everyone present for the couple and their future together.

Investing in your relationship

Your relationship is special. At Eastwood Uniting Church, we encourage couples to undertake a marriage preparation course.
There are several options:
  • You can undergo a period of preparation with our Minister which will involve doing Prepare-Enrich, a computer-based questionnaire. This is a tool that helps you to identify the strengths in your relationships and the areas which you need to work on. This usually involves around 4-5 meetings.
  • You could undertake a marriage preparation course. e.g. The Marriage Course
In the course of your time of preparation, our Minister will also guide you through the wedding ceremony and help you with choices of readings and music.

Organist/Pianist and Music

The Eastwood Uniting Church has a pipe organ and piano and we would be very pleased to talk about music with you. We welcome soloists and other musical requests.  Please contact the Church Office for further information.

Government Regulations and Information

In NSW, weddings are performed by a Civil Celebrant or a Religious Celebrant. At Eastwood, we have several registered religious celebrants who are Ministers in the Uniting Church. They are required, by law, to use the religious ceremony authorised by the Uniting Church. The Service has some flexibility and adaptations can be discussed with the Minister.

More information can be found in the HAPPILY EVER BEFORE AND AFTER BROCHURE from the NSW Government.

Happily Ever Before And After [English]
Happily Ever Before And After [Traditional Chinese]
Happily Ever Before And After [Simplified Chinese]
​Happily Ever Before And After [Korean]