Here at chalice we recognise the power of ritual to create space and honour significant events.

We are passionate about working with you to craft meaningful services around those moments in your lives of great joy, celebration and sadness.

Weddings

This marriage be wine and halvah, honey dissolving in milk

This marriage be the leaves and fruit of a date tree

This marriage be women laughing together for days on end

This marriage, a sign for us to study. This marriage, beauty.

This marriage, a moon in a light blue sky.

This marriage, this silence fully mixed with spirit

- By Rumi

With magnificent acoustics, the richness of its pipe organ and the dappled light of sun through its stained glass windows, Northcote Uniting Church provides a warm and inviting place to celebrate your wedding. Several meetings with the minister are arranged in advance of the wedding day to ensure that the service speaks about the essence of who you are as a couple and what this day means to you and your community.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Can we have our own minister?

Yes! They will need to talk with our minister but we are very open to clergy from other traditions and churches presiding at your wedding service.

Do you have a central aisle?

Yes. Our pews are not fixed in place so the space can adapt to suit your vision.

Can we bring our own music/musicians?

Yes! Our organist is happy to play for you or you can bring in live musicians or play CD’s. We also have a lovely old upright piano and great acoustics for singers.

How much does it cost?

Average cost for our wedding package (includes pre marital counseling if requested, planning meetings, rehearsal, organist and the services of our minister) is $700. If you choose to bring in your own music/ musicians and or minister the cost is reduced by $200/$100.

Baptisms and Naming Ceremony’s

You have come to us as a small child,

but you have brought us the greatest of all gifts,

the gift of eternal love

Caress us with Your tiny hands,

embrace us with Your tiny arms

and pierce our hearts with Your soft, sweet cries.

- St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153

Join with our minister to plan a service of great meaning, which celebrates the birth of your new child or the creation of a new family. Explore sacred story and ancient ritual to create an experience, which meets the wonder and gravitas of your new world. Be welcomed into Christian community through the sacrament of Baptism or choose to explore other options such as Blessings and Naming Services

Funerals

Stop all the clocks

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

-  W. H. Auden

We will work with you to provide a moving service of reflection, recognition and thanksgiving for loved one who has journeyed into the next life. Feel free to contact us at any time to begin a conversation about a service that best honours the life of your loved one.