Friends who don't go to church had a church wedding back in like '98. The pastor used the opportunity to lecture everyone there for the wedding about the evils of the Clinton administration for their intervention in Kosovo. I've heard a half-dozen stories like yours, where the parents insist on a church wedding even though nobody goes to that church and all of a sudden they're getting a lecture on the evils of masks or some shit. I get the sense that weddings are seen as an open-mic slam night by the clergy. As far as entrepreneurialism, non-profit or no, allow me to make a recommendation. It forces you to do the work, and doing the work is what gets you money, and what keeps you from doing dumb shit. I probably spent two months on ours (including integrating a bunch of data veen helped me with) and the end result was an 80pp document that got us $400k in funding... and that's only because we said we didn't need a million five.