Document Decoding: Phyllis Jean Ver Hoef's Church Transfer

In a previous post, I discussed how in the Protestant world, Church and even denominational transfers were not unusual. Here is another example, this time for my maternal grandmother, Phyllis Jean Ver Hoef (granddaughter of Fred Wise and Jeanette Harkema, the couple mentioned in my previous post). 

My maternal grandparents, Alvin John TerVree Jr. and Phyllis Jean Ver Hoef, married on March 19, 1965, at First United Methodist Church in Holland. This was Phyllis's childhood church, and as it was the custom to marry in the wife's church, my grandparents married there. However they began attending First Reformed Church, my grandfather's church, after their marriage, as it was closer to home. Once they moved to the north side, they joined Fellowship Reformed Church, where my mother was baptized and my grandfather still attends. 

What is the meaning of all this? It means my maternal grandmother, Phyllis Jean Ver Hoef, grew up Methodist. She married my grandfather, Alvin John TerVree Jr., who was of the Reformed Church in America, in the Methodist Church, due to custom, and then upon marriage she joined the RCA herself. Again, church transfers happen all the time in the Protestant world.