Weddings
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church is a beautiful location for a wedding. Your wedding is one of the most important events of your life! We at St. Stephens Luthern Church wish to help make this a day of joy and celebration for you and the people who will share in this special day.
That you have chosen to be married in the Christian Church means your wedding at St. Stephen's chapel will be a worship service. Therefore, as is the case in all Christian worship, our primary focus is on God. We come together to praise and thank God for the good gifts that the Creator has showered upon the human family and upon the church. God gives us marriage as the foundation for human community. Marriage brings us a joy that begins now and is brought to perfection in the life to come.
As you come before the altar to pledge your love and life-long faithfulness to each other, the Church offers what it has been authorized by Christ to give: God's blessing. As you kneel you will hear the words which make a Christian wedding unique: "The Lord God, who created our first parents and established them in marriage, establish and sustain you, that you may find delight in each other and grow in holy love until your life's end. Amen."
Weddings can be intimate gatherings or large affairs, and the sanctuary at St. Stephens can accommodate a few guests or comfortably seat over 150 guests. The Fellowship Hall next door is available for larger ones.
To schedule a wedding, it is best to first see our beautiful sanctuary at St. Stephen's Luthern Church located int he beautiful foothills just east of Sacramento, then meet with the pastor. To arrange an appointment, call the church office 916-