Valley Presbyterian Church 945 Portola Road • Portola Valley • CA 94028

The $6,000 fee at Valley Presbyterian Church in Portola Valley covers a whole wedding team: the church's officiant, an organist or pianist, a wedding hostess who directs your rehearsal, and the wedding coordinator. You also get the rehearsal, two dressing rooms, 2.5 hours in the church and optional decorations, including an aisle runner, candelabras, unity candles and silk flowers for the pews and communion table. If you'd like to bring your own officiant, that's an extra $500. Premarital counseling is required before the wedding, so budget for that separately.

Your officiant and musicians come built in at Valley Presbyterian Church, but you have some flexibility. You can bring a guest officiant for an extra $500, as long as they're ordained in the Christian tradition and attend the rehearsal. Live music is required and prerecorded music isn't allowed, and the church's organist or pianist approves all ceremony music. For photographers, florists and other vendors, the church keeps a Preferred Vendor List to help you get started.

A wedding at Valley Presbyterian Church in Portola Valley costs $6,000, or $4,000 at member pricing. That one fee covers 2.5 hours in the church, the officiant, an organist or pianist, the wedding hostess and coordinator, your rehearsal, two dressing rooms and optional decorations like candelabras and an aisle runner. The only add-on the church lists is $500 if you bring your own officiant. A $3,000 non-refundable deposit, applied to the total, holds your date. Budget separately for the premarital counseling every couple completes, and for your other vendors.

You get 2.5 hours at Valley Presbyterian Church, starting at your booked ceremony time, and your wedding party and vendors can arrive one hour before. Saturday ceremonies start at 10am, noon, 2:30pm or 5pm, and Sunday ceremonies at 2:30pm or 5pm. Music is live only, with no prerecorded tracks, and the church's organist or pianist approves every piece, so everything wraps up inside your 2.5-hour window.

Valley Presbyterian Church gives you a ceremony with the whole team included: officiant, organist or pianist, wedding hostess, coordinator and rehearsal all come with the $6,000 fee. The A-frame sanctuary in Portola Valley is built of warm pine, with a wall of windows behind the altar framing a redwood grove, a six-foot stained-glass window and oak pews. Two dressing rooms give your wedding party a place to get ready, and the congregation welcomes all couples, whether or not you're members.

Valley Presbyterian Church has two dressing rooms for your wedding party, and both come with your booking. You and your vendors can arrive one hour before your ceremony time, so plan to arrive mostly ready and use that hour for final touches, photos and getting everyone lined up.

Valley Presbyterian Church hosts Christian ceremonies, and you don't need to be church members to marry there. If you'd like a guest officiant, they need to be ordained in the Christian tradition, and you'll share their name, denomination and current position. Every couple completes premarital counseling first, with a licensed family and marriage counselor or your pastor. The church's organist or pianist can play a wide range of music if you share sheet music early.