The San Mateo County Coastside offers a few choices for an intimate indoor wedding ceremony.

The Methodist Church Chapel is a historic chapel located in downtown Half Moon Bay, which provides a quaint intimate indoor setting for your wedding. It is the oldest operating church in San Mateo County and can accommodate up to 100 guests. It is not necessary for you to be an official member of the church to be married there.

The chapel is adorned with beautiful stained glass windows designed by one of its members, Robert Fitzpatrick. Each window is specifically designed based on a hymn chosen by the person who commissioned each window.

The chapel was originally built in 1872. When it was built, men and women weren’t allowed to sit together so the chapel is unique in that it has two aisles; 1 on the left and one on the right , rather than having a center aisle. For the wedding ceremony the Bride enters from the north door of the chapel and once married departs down the south side signifying she is now part of the groom’s family.

The Chapel has crystal chandeliers that were once oil burners but are now electrified. Many furnishing are original pieces and the bell added in 1907 is still in the cupola, repaired in 1996 and can sometimes be heard on Sunday mornings.

For more information or to arrange for the use of the Chapel go to http://www.cumc-hmb.com/html/weddings.html or call the church hostess, Danise Conrad, at 650-726-4621.

The San Mateo County Coastside offers many wonderful locations for your wedding festivities.

Crab Landing Seafood & Steakhouse with a sushi & oyster bar is a great location for your rehearsal dinner or wedding reception. Located in Princeton by the Sea, 30 miles south of San Francisco the restaurant will provide you and your guests a special meal while enjoying panoramic views of both Pillar Point Harbor and the Pacific Ocean.

Crab Landing has three areas of their restaurant available for private events – The Princeton Promenade, The Capistrano Courtyard and The Pillar Point Terrace.

• Princeton Promenade is on the ground floor and is available for a maximum of 50 guests, where you can enjoy a full bar as well as their sushi and oyster bar.
• Capistrano Courtyard is available for outdoor dining on the patio for up to 50 guests. The patio is heated with a lovely garden and beautiful ocean views.
• Pillar Point Terrace is on the mezzanine level and holds up to 120 guests. Here you may enjoy a full bar, with views of the wine cellar, as well as Pillar Point Harbor and the Pacific Ocean.

The goal at Crab Landing is to provide you with a unique location to celebrate your special event, providing impeccable service and satisfying your senses.

For more information go to www.crablanding.com or call 650-712-1288.

A wedding ceremony program order basically has just four major elements. You can add things like readings, prayers, a Unity Candle Ceremony, and other elements where they seem appropriate within the basic structure.

First, your wedding ceremony begins with how you want the wedding party to proceed in to where the ceremony actually takes place.

The traditional approach is for the men in the wedding party to proceed in from the side and the women proceed down the aisle with the bride entering last. The bride may enter by herself or be escorted by her father or some significant person.

Once the bridal party is assembled, usually the officiant will welcome the guests and give a short talk to the bridal couple. This part of the wedding ceremony program can be religious, secular, or can be a ceremony that combines the religious and the secular.

Next is the exchange of vows and rings. There are two different approaches to wedding ceremony vows. One type is where the officiant asks you a series of questions  to which you reply “I do.” In the second, the couple reads their vows or is prompted by the officiant to share significant words of commitment.

The wedding ceremony program concludes with the pronouncement of you as “husband and wife” and an introduction to the guests. The introduction can be something like, ” Ladies and Gentlemen I’d like to introduce to you, George and Mary, husband and wife.” Or “Ladies and Gentlemen I’d like to introduce to you, Mr. and Mrs. George Henderson.

Here is an example of a Wedding Ceremony program order from Weddings By The Sea. There is also a link on that the Ceremony page to a page of additional wedding vows.