Lo, a church for our wedding ceremony has been found! It is located within 20 minutes of the Trump, large enough, available on a Sunday, has a parking lot, allows us to bring our own pastor, and is open to rental by non-members! Phew! It was harder to find a place that checked all of those boxes than we had initially expected, and we had started to get stressed about it. It is also beautiful:
It feels more intimate than it looks from the picture. It is also at the center of a charming New Jersey town (uh, how often do I say that?), which has a DINOSAUR STATUE DOWN THE BLOCK! Meet the local Hadrosaurus, everyone:
I can't believe Dave didn't tell me that my legs were positioned wrong for this picture. At any rate, we felt that "everything came together" at this church. We had tried to visit it on Sunday, but it was locked! When we returned on Monday, it was cool and drizzly (like the day of our engagement); the carillon was playing a hymn (like at the moment of our engagement); we visited a dinosaur (like after our engagement); and afterwards we ate curry chicken salad sandwiches (like our engagement picnic). So I suppose it was meant to be!
Now, the huge drawback of this church: no air conditioning. So let's also hope for cool weather and no heat waves in late May 2013! The back windows do open and they have a lot of fans, and we won't have an extremely long ceremony, so we think that it will all work out okay. At least we're not planning an outdoor ceremony, right?
It feels more intimate than it looks from the picture. It is also at the center of a charming New Jersey town (uh, how often do I say that?), which has a DINOSAUR STATUE DOWN THE BLOCK! Meet the local Hadrosaurus, everyone:
I can't believe Dave didn't tell me that my legs were positioned wrong for this picture. At any rate, we felt that "everything came together" at this church. We had tried to visit it on Sunday, but it was locked! When we returned on Monday, it was cool and drizzly (like the day of our engagement); the carillon was playing a hymn (like at the moment of our engagement); we visited a dinosaur (like after our engagement); and afterwards we ate curry chicken salad sandwiches (like our engagement picnic). So I suppose it was meant to be!
Now, the huge drawback of this church: no air conditioning. So let's also hope for cool weather and no heat waves in late May 2013! The back windows do open and they have a lot of fans, and we won't have an extremely long ceremony, so we think that it will all work out okay. At least we're not planning an outdoor ceremony, right?
Are we taking wedding photos in front of the dinosaur? ;) ;)
ReplyDeletedefinitely yes!! =) (just a few, of course. ;) )
DeleteWhat a great find!! I'm glad we took the time on Monday to check it out:). We will make sure all of our legs are in step with the Hadrosaurus in all future pictures!
ReplyDeletethe church is beautiful inside and out... just like the bride :D:D
ReplyDelete(If this dinosaur is any indication... I am really excited to see the rest of Haddonfield! haha!)
ahhhhhh! i can't wait until we finally have posts on this blog FROM THE WEDDING! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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