Dare I say- the prestigous and beautiful Heinz Chapel unfortunately has a very argumentive and unpleasant Director. We were going to have a beer ceremony at our reception, initially pouring a beer that we made ourselfs into one glass to symbolize our union. At first our coordinator was all for it and said it would be great. 7 days before our wedding, she calls and says the Director "just realized" what we were doing and the answer was no. She said because it "was not a religous ceremony" we could not do it. I called her directly, pleading that we already printed our programs and that this was very meaningful to us. How is she to assume that this is not religous to us and not at least ask? She was so unbelieveably cold and rude. We contacted our Rev to call her to explain to her that this was a spiritual ceremony and he said she was "not only agrumentive but quite unpleasant" to him! We tried to compromise and see if we could do a sand ceremony but use grains and she said NO to that too! What is wrong with using grains? Its like she is saying no just to say no! I am heartbroken that we are going through this with Heinz Chapel. We paid so much money to get married there and the Director is treating us like this. We told them what we were doing and because the Director wasnt paying attention when she gave the OK we get told last minute that we have to change our ceremony.
Our wedding is in 4 days
PS. She also said some very discriminating comments agains Wiccans. My fiance and I are not Wiccans but were offended that she had the audacity to out right show discrimination against someones religion.