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Hello everyone!  I am having my reception at the local VFW but have found that I can't have the ceremony there.  Since I am not a regular member of a church I don't know where to have a ceremony.  We would like to get married in a church, so if anyone knows any churches that can be rented please let me know.  I am open to areas anywhere from Worcester to Boston.

Thanks!!

I am getting married in framingham.  I am probably looking for a small town church since the attendence will be less than 75.  I am baptist but open to any kind of church if they allow rentals.  Thanks for the help.

I am going to be renting a church that I do not belong to in MA.  It really just depends on the church's policy.  Some will even let you have a pastor from another church come in and marry you.

Catholic churches seem to be more strict and usually require you to also be Catholic.

Framingham to Boston is a big range.  My suggestion would be to pick a city and then just do a google search for churches in that area.  Give the church a call and ask them if they rent to non-memebers, most will.

I looked into some Boston churches during my search that were available for rent, but one common problem I found was lack of available parking.

Here's a few

http://www.kings-chapel.org/otherservices.html

http://www.bu.edu/chapel/reservations/

http://weddings.swedenborgchapel.com/services.htm

http://www.firstbaptistchurchofboston.org/Weddings/Weddings.html

http://www.oldsouth.org/bldguse.html#weddings

Hope this helps!

I did some research and there are churches that can be rented.  I honestly haven't been to church in a couple of years, so I don't exactly "belong" to a church, and neither has my fiance.  My parents go to a small church and have asked if we wanted to use their reverend to marry us.  I don't know him too well, and my fiance really wants his reverend to marry us (which I don't mind because its literally his only request).  The churches that I've found that can be rented have required to use their own priest/reverend.  So I don't know if what I am looking for is out of the question to be able to rent a church and use our own reverend.  I was just hoping for some suggestions on nice churches that anyone may know of that allow outsiders to rent. 

Though some churches do have a policy against having non parishioners marry, when researching for my wedding ceremony I found several churches that had a whole "wedding" section (even if it wasn't elaborate) with information on who to contact if you want to get married there, fees, policies, etc.  Some make you use their pastor, some just charge a fee if you're not using their pastor. 

I wish I knew the area you are looking at better, but good luck!

 http://yellowpages.superpages.com/mapbasedsearch/mapsearch.jsp?SRC=portals&C=Churches&CID=00000518798&STYPE=S&T=Framingham&S=MA&PP=N&paging=&PI=&search=Find+It&IP=132.239.5.7&PS=22&city=Framingham&state=MA&dponmap=true