Marriages

A Lifelong Commitment to Love

Couples seeking to get married under the care of the Meeting or marriages held in the Sandy Spring Meeting House (but under the care of other Friends Meetings) are overseen by the Marriage and Family Relations Committee.

Members, associate members, or regular attenders of the Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting, or nonmembers, including Quakers or non-Quakers, may be married under the care of the Meeting. In each case, the couple should be made aware that the Meeting has a loving concern for their marriage that continues beyond the marriage ceremony itself.

Friends regard marriage as religious in nature, being a solemn covenant made between two people in the presence of God. We apply the Procedure for Marriage under the care of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends to all couples, regardless of sex or gender. For more information, see this background statement.

Further information about marriage at Sandy Spring Meeting is contained in this booklet on the procedures for marriage.

Contact the Meeting office at office@sandyspring.org