Weddings
In making any plans for your wedding, please ensure first that you have signed up to our premarital counselling programme.
If you are planning a wedding at Island ECC or would like one of the pastors to officiate at your wedding, please note the following:
Ceremony Pastor
For a pastor to officiate at your wedding, there is a set fee of HK$2000, payable directly to the pastor.
If the wedding is outside Hong Kong, the costs of all travel and accommodation should also be met.
Island ECC Facilities
Our facilities are available for hire primarily for wedding ceremonies of the church family.
If you would like to hire the Island ECC facilities, we offer the following wedding package at a cost of HK$9,000, to include:
- 1/F 4 hour hire on Wedding Day (inclusive of set-up and take down, with A/C supply)
- 1/F 1.5 hour hire for Rehearsal (no A/C supply after 7pm; extra A/C supply at cost of $280/hr)
- Utilities on Wedding Day (Electricity, Projector, Sound System)
- 2 Sound Technicians (Wedding Day only)
- Caretaker.
Additional hours are charged at $2,000/hr.
If sound technicians are required at the rehearsal, the additional charge is $1,440.
Providing music/worship team for a wedding is not part of our worship team’s responsibilities so for anyrequest regarding this, please contact them directly to enquire about a separate arrangement.
To book the venue please enquire here:
Marriage Registration
Island ECC is not able to perform the legal registration of a marriage. Please take care of this separately through a marriage registry office, a licensed place of worship or by employing the services of a Civil Celebrant of Marriages. Further information can be found at: http://www.gov.hk/en/residents/immigration/bdmreg/
Wedding Rehearsal
If an Island ECC pastor is conducting your wedding ceremony, please talk to him in advance to arrange the rehearsal date and time to avoid any scheduling conflict and to ensure the flow of the ceremony will be smooth.
Order of Service
An order of service provides a programme for wedding guests. We carry some samples of these in the Island ECC office which you are welcome to view. There are no particular requirements for the order of service but this may include the following elements:
- names of the couple
- wedding date
- time
- location
- processional music
- greeting
- prayer
- other music / hymns
- scripture readings
- exchange of vows and rings/pronouncement of marriage
- message
- prayers
- recessional music
- list of members of the bridal party
- thank you’s
- directions to the reception etc.
There are other optional items which can be included, e.g. unity candle, communion, solos, poetry reading.
Wedding Vows
Here are some sample wedding vows
Wedding Scriptures
A list of scripture commonly used in wedding ceremonies
Wedding Music
Here is a list of popular wedding music