Houston, Texas

Officiant & Ceremony

In Houston: Zero officiant services cleared the screen for this edition. The entries below are area congregations, printed in their own labeled block rather than presented as bookable officiant businesses, because they are not. Most couples marrying religiously in this region go through a congregation directly; anyone wanting a secular or interfaith officiant will need to look beyond this annex. The paperwork is the harder half regardless. Texas bars marriage during the 72-hour period immediately after license issuance, a clock that runs from issuance, not application, and the license then expires 90 days later and works at any Texas venue. The eight-hour Twogether in Texas course lifts that wait for anyone, and separately cuts $60 off the fee only for a couple who can prove Texas residency — the costliest split in this region's paperwork, since an out-of-state couple pays Harris County's full $181 non-resident fee, gets the faster timeline, and saves nothing: a $160 swing. Texas has no self-solemnization; only clergy, an authorized religious officer, or a current, former or retired judge may conduct the ceremony, and whoever does must return the signed license within 30 days.

0 listings · checked August 2026

Churches and congregations

These are places of worship rather than for-hire officiants. Many will marry members of their own congregation, or couples willing to join and complete a marriage preparation course, and some will not marry non-members at all. Several also price the building, the clergy and the musician separately. Ask early what they require of you — policy varies widely between denominations, and between individual congregations of the same denomination.

• First Colony Bible Chapel — Sugar Land · firstcolonybible.org · (281) 265-3411
• McGee Chapel — Houston · mcgeechapelchurch.com · (281) 493-1883
• Rccg Restoration Chapel — Houston · rccgrestoration.org · (281) 495-4424
• Saint Martin's Episcopal Church — Houston · stmartinsepiscopal.org · (713) 621-3040
• Sugar Land Methodist Church — Sugar Land · sugarlandmethodist.org · (281) 491-6041

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