St. Mark's in the Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos, CA
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  • Home
  • News
    • News
    • Commitment 2022-23
    • Calendar
    • Key dates 2023-2025
    • Standing Notices
  • Events
    • Shaun Cassidy Evening of Story & Song
    • SYV Concert Series
    • ENCORE! SYVCS Online Concerts
  • Welcome
    • Visiting on Sunday >
      • Q and A
      • An Episcopal Church?
      • Sunday at St. Mark's in detail
      • Service Schedule
    • Every day at St. Mark's
    • Open Doors Building Use >
      • Building Use Introduction
      • Shared Space Guidelines
      • Space Use Request
    • Community Kitchen
    • Baptism
    • Marriage & Weddings
    • Funerals & Memorials >
      • Churchyard Memorial Garden
    • Notes on St. Mark's Buildings
    • A Brief History
    • Gallery
    • Contact
  • Grow
    • Grow
    • Adults >
      • Way of Love
      • The Good Book Club
      • Sermons
      • Centering Prayer
      • Education for Ministry (EFM)
    • Children & Youth >
      • Nursery ages 0-3+
      • Sunday School ages 4-12
      • Youth
    • Donate
  • Ministries
    • Service Programs
    • Music
    • Mutual Care
    • Guilds & Organizations >
      • Easter Flowers
      • Christmas Flowers
  • Preschool
    • Preschool
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Marriage and weddings at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley

May God bless your preparation for marriage and the planning of your wedding, one of the most important occasions in your life. 

Here you will find our handbook: The Celebration and Blessing of Marriage at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley that will give you an understanding of marriage and weddings within the life of the vibrant St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley faith community, an active church, community center, and arts venue that serves the surrounding region daily.

We regard marriage as a sacrament—an outward sign of the inner working of God’s love, reconciliation, justice, and compassion for you as a couple and for all people. Choosing to be married at St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley is to ask for Christ’s blessing on your union and for this sacramental character of marriage to be expressed in your wedding.

In the wider culture, the actual wedding in the larger “event” of a wedding celebration is increasingly viewed as a formality or technicality prior to a party. Nothing could be more foreign to the sensibility with which weddings at St. Mark’s are viewed. 

As a result, weddings at St. Mark’s are profoundly beautiful and joyous.

Please read our marriage handbook and then use the Wedding Inquiry online here for your first contact. 

After you have had your first meeting with the priest and your wedding date is on our parish calendar, you are asked to complete Wedding Full Information online here.

For couples in the process of planning their wedding, some additional resources are posted here.




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Celebration and Blessing of Marriage Handbook
Wedding Inquiry
Wedding Full Information
Wedding Resources
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Address & Directions
2901 Nojoqui Avenue at Alamo Pintado Avenue
Post Office Box 39
Los Olivos, California 93441
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info@smitv.org
Church messages 805-688-4454
Preschool 805-688-1815
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