Congratulations on your engagement!
At Victory Church, we commit to coming alongside you as you prepare for a God-honoring, love-filled marriage lasting a lifetime. If you are considering inviting us to assist you in celebrating your wedding day, please read the wedding information.
What to Do First
We encourage you to schedule your wedding as soon as you know you plan to be married. You should call the Pastor’s secretary to request a tentative wedding date. She will review the church calendar and advise you if your date is available with the church’s schedule and the Pastor’s. Keep in mind, that a wedding will not take precedence over the primary ministries of Victory Church.
Also, with that in mind, we do not accept wedding dates one week before or after Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas
Who Will Officiate
Only the Pastor of Victory Church of Camargo is permitted to perform weddings in the church.
Wedding Coordinator
Victory Church will have someone who will help act as a wedding coordinator. The coordinator will guide you through to make sure Victory’s wedding policies are followed and your wedding is a worshipful ceremony. The wedding coordinator takes care of instructing the wedding party and overall management of the event. If you have an outside wedding coordinator, that person must work with the Victory Church wedding coordinator and guidelines established.
Scheduling the Rehearsal
You need to reserve Victory’s facilities for your rehearsal when you schedule your wedding. Victory’s wedding coordinator will be at your rehearsal to assist you. The officiating pastor will be at your rehearsal, schedule permitting. Due to ongoing ministries of Victory, rehearsals should be completed within one hour. We will unlock church 30 minutes prior to the scheduled rehearsal time.
Planning the Wedding
On the day of the wedding, we will unlock the church 2-1/2hours prior to the wedding. While the facilities are generally available for your wedding each day of the week, due to Victory’s busy Sunday schedule of ministries, we are unable to perform weddings on Sundays. As Victory is an active evangelical church, ministry events occur constantly. This is why it’s best to reserve your wedding date as soon as possible. Keep in mind, we do not accept wedding dates two weeks before or after Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Flowers and Decorations
All decorations and decorating equipment must be furnished by the wedding party or florist. Please remember to be respectful of church property and observe the following: Decorations and equipment may NOT be attached using nails, screws, tacks, staples, hot wax, gum or tape to walls, woodwork, furniture, floors or on any of the sanctuary or entry way furnishings, as this may deface church property. Whenever candles are used, they must be the dripless variety and must be set in candelabra, which will catch and contain all drippings so that the floor will be thoroughly protected.
All decorations, flowers, plants and other equipment shall be removed from the church building immediately following its use. (There are no facilities for storing these items) It is your responsibility to see that items rented or borrowed for your wedding are returned promptly following your wedding. The pulpits will be moved for your wedding. A staff member of Victory will do this and they are the only people allowed to move furnishings on the platform or entryway.
Facility Care
Birdseed and bubbles are permitted to be used at Victory but only outside the building. Victory church is a smoke-free facility. If someone does smoke, they may go outside near the parking lot, not near the front doors. Victory church is an alcohol-free facility. No alcoholic beverages of any kind may be served or consumed on any part of Victory’s premises. Absolutely NO food or drink are permitted in the sanctuary. They are only allowed in the Soul Café (kitchen area)
Childcare is not provided during weddings or rehearsals. Please supervise children at all times. Children are not allowed to go in the nursery or other Sunday school classrooms, offices, or any rooms upstairs or on staircase in the entry way or youth building. Only rooms reserved for your wedding are to be entered. No one is to enter rooms that have not been reserved.
Dressing rooms MUST be cleared of clothing and personal items immediately following the wedding. Victory Church is NOT responsible for lost or stolen property and will not be liable for dresses, silver, jewelry, purses/billfolds or any personal items lost, stolen or damaged at any event related to this wedding. Only authorized persons are allowed to touch any of the church’s musical instruments or sound equipment. It is the responsibility of the wedding party or those they designate to return the church facilities to their pre-wedding condition. This would include returning items which were moved from their original location
Music, Photography and Video
It is your responsibility to organize and arrange music, i.e. CD’s, tapes, soloists, pianists, organists, etc. Please make your own financial arrangements with any instrumentalist or vocalist you engage in the ceremony.
Photographs and video taping of your wedding are permitted as well as the use of flash-photography. The photographer is free to take pictures of members of the wedding party prior to the wedding. Also, time is available for portions of the marriage service to be re-enacted following the departure of the guests from the sanctuary.