Weddings & Funerals – First Presbyterian Church

Our Wedding Coordinator is Carrie Cross. She will be your guide and help throughout the entire planning process for any wedding held at the church. (Does not include destination weddings.)

Carrie will work with you with all details of the wedding service, ushering, and seating arrangements, and is present at both the rehearsal and the wedding.

You will also meet two-three times with the pastor. Those meetings allow the pastor to get to know you so that she can make the service reflect who you are, and you will plan the service together.

Please contact the wedding coordinator, Carrie Cross, at 402-477-6037 or email her at churchadmin@fpclinoln.org, to talk more about holding your wedding at First Presbyterian Church.

Some couples just want the processional and recessional music, others want music in the service itself. Some love traditional organ music, others love hip-hop, Latin, jazz, or country. Whatever your style, we’ll work with you.

We have a world-class organ and organist who is available to play for your wedding. We have a beautiful grand piano as well.

If you desire any vocal or instrumental soloists or groups, you may arrange for them.

Couples do wonder about any limits on music – all we ask is that it be in good taste, after all, this is a worship service.

No matter what, this is your special day, and we want to work with you to make this wedding service not only a celebration of your love and God’s gift, we want this to reflect who you are as well.

We want you to have the best photos and videos of your day that you can have. At the same time, we recognize that a wedding is a worship service, and we want to honor that as well.

We honor the worship service by asking photo/videographers to refrain from flash photography or moving around the sanctuary once the service has begun, as flash and movement can destroy the spirit of the service.

Often couples will have two photo/videographers, which allows them to be in different places to capture different moments and angles during the service.

We do have a multi-camera video recording setup in our sanctuary. If you would like the services of our videographer to record your wedding ceremony, please talk to the Wedding Coordinator. This would depend on the availability of our videographer.

Our Funeral Coordinator is Carrie Cross. She will be your guide and help throughout the entire planning process for any funeral held at the church.

Carrie will work with you with all logistics of the service, including coordinating with the funeral home, arranging for bulletins if needed, ushering, and seating arrangements.

Funerals are ordinarily officiated by the Lead Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dr. Sue Coller. You will meet with her so that she can get to know the deceased, and plan the service with you.

Please contact the funeral coordinator, Carrie Cross, at 402-477-6037 or email her at churchadmin@fpclinoln.org, to talk more about holding a funeral at First Presbyterian Church.

Some families want traditional religious music, others love hip-hop, Latin, jazz, or country. Whatever your style, we’ll work with you. We recognize that finding music that is meaningful to the family and the deceased is one way of honoring the one we love.

We have a world-class organ and organist who is available to play for your funeral. We have a beautiful grand piano as well.

If you desire any vocal or instrumental soloists or groups, you may arrange for them.

Families sometimes wonder if there are any limits on the kind of music that can be played. All we ask is that it be in good taste, after all, this is a worship service.

We want to work with you to make this funeral service not only a celebration of your loved one, but a celebration of God’s love for us in these most heart-felt times.