The reason churches charge so much. . .

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My preist told us on Sunday that it costs about $4,000 a month to heat the church. And its not a huge church!

She was telling us this, because sheasked that if we were making a donation it be to the fuel fund.
This church doesn't have a set fee for weddings. . . I'm starting to think they should.

This is a little Episcopal church,they don't have a huge Congregation, & they don't have a lot of weddings.

We are going to see how much we can reasonably give, but it seems like it is such a smallamount, comapred to all their expenses.

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I have to dish out $600 for my church. My only problem is that they shouldnt call it a donation if Im required to pay it.

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My parish prints out how much they spend on 'overhead' (gas and lighting) each month in the bulletin. I forget how much offhand but I remember it being alot and much more than $4K a month.

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my church asks for a $500...and the idiot priest...once u give him that...asks u for a donation....umm the 500 was my donation

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The church doesn't even pay taxes. They aren't hurting for cash.

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My priest has told us that the 'donation' to get married is $650..........but then told us, that the altar boys get tipped, so does the organist, and soloist, sheeeeshhhhhhhhh.

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Sorry to hijack the thread, but Patti, your avatar is so cute..is that your puppy on the computer?

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Ok, so the church has bills. That still doesn't explain why I'm paying $750 for officiants (priest and rabbi) to come to my hall and $1000 just to have my ceremony at the hall!

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mine is $250 including singer and organist fee. Plust a tip for the altar boy.

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Um, I would like to add that I just did the math of what my church rakes in a MONTH for weddings (since I know they were booked every mass and every weekend last year, he showed me the book!) and they raked in PER MONTH......13,000 BUCKS! That's roughly 150,000 A YEAR! I think that is completely and ridiculously terrible. 150K TAX FREE. AND the front of the church looks disgusting, for that kind of money, you'd think they could slap a coat of paint on it or something. I know I sound a little bitter, but I have other issues with the church and this just fuels my fire.

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I will happily pay whatever donation that the church requires because the ceremony means the most to me. Remember you don't have to get married at a church JMO

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my church saint killians asks for a $700.00 'donation'. wish to me a dontation is something that you want to give not a set cost but im not going to argue.

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Posted by FoxHollowbride0617

I will happily pay whatever donation that the church requires because the ceremony means the most to me. Remember you don't have to get married at a church JMO

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I agree with you!!! It is more difficult to get married in a church (especially if you have to do pre-cana).

The $400 we are giving my church to marry us is the best money we've ever spent.

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I have to be honest, as much as the ceremony IS the most important part of my day, that doesn't give the church the right to demand a specific amount of money from me then call it a donation to get out of paying taxes. Harsh, yes, reality, yes. That's just the way I see it. And I can tell you this, too....had our church not demanded a certain amount of money, we would have given them more than what they asked anyway. I know they're allowing me to use their church, but technically, it's MY church, too, so I don't feel to bad feeling this way about it.

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