Wedding frequently asked questions

As we are a Parish Church, anyone who is normally resident within our parish may apply to the minister to be married. Our parish is the villages of Luss, Arden and Inverbeg and the surrounding areas. If you live in another part of Scotland, then it is the privilege of the minister from your own parish to conduct your wedding.

Of course, if you are a communicant member of Luss Parish Church, living out with the parish, you may also ask our minister to conduct your wedding.

However, many other folk would like to be married in this beautiful part of the world and we are delighted to share our Church with them, especially as we believe that our building is quite simply the most beautiful Church for a wedding anywhere in Scotland.

Of course, if you are a communicant member of Luss Parish Church, living out with the parish, you may also ask our minister to conduct your wedding.

However, many other folk would like to be married in this beautiful part of the world and we are delighted to share our Church with them, especially as we believe that our building is quite simply the most beautiful Church for a wedding anywhere in Scotland.

The best way of inviting our minister to conduct your wedding is to come to a regular Sunday morning service and after the service to come across to the Manse for coffee — everyone in the congregation does! There you will get an opportunity of discussing your plans with the Minister. If you wish you may telephone the Manse in advance (01436 860240) to tell the minister that you will be attending Church and would like to speak to him about a wedding. Of course, you may not be able to get to Luss immediately and that is why an on-line application form is included at the end of this web-page. Fill it in, send it off and the process of planning your wedding has already begun. If he can, the minister will normally be delighted to arrange your wedding. He will want to be sure that you are fully aware that a Wedding Service in Luss Parish Church is a religious service; that you will be making your promises before God; and that you will be coming to receive God's blessing on the marriage into which you are entering.

There is not a lot of point in requesting a wedding unless you have a faith in God and want him to be part of your marriage. The minister will also want to be sure that you are happy with the Church's view of marriage as the entering into of a loving commitment for life between two people. He will not, however, expect or require you to become a member of the Church if you are not a member, although he will seek to establish links between you and your own local Church to ensure that there is a congregation and a minister to whom you may turn in the future and who will be happy to welcome you into the life of their congregation.

It is important that both people wishing to be married come to one of our services, not least because you will want to be sure that the style of worship which is offered here is appropriate for your special day. Marriages will not be arranged until the minister has had the opportunity of consulting both parties. It is also important that if you have been married before that you tell the minister at this stage. Under present Church of Scotland regulations, depending on the circumstances, ministers are allowed to marry people who have been divorced subject to their own consciences. So the fact that you have been divorced will not necessarily debar you from getting married in Luss Parish Church.