The Puritans were big on the regulative principle of worship. If the Bible didn't explicitly tell you to worship in a certain way, then you shouldn't. For related reasons, they did not believe in marriages inside the church.
I assume you mean the church as a building. The Puritans were quite circumspect to define the church as the called-out congregation of God's elect people. These people could meet anywhere and still be the church. In New England, as well as in England, they called their buildings meeting houses, simply because they were not churches in a biblical sense, but merely houses were the church would meet. These same building were also used for all meetings and business of a community. Following the American Revolution some meeting houses became merely secular in nature and the church in a town would construct an meeting house (which they began to call a church) elsewhere, or vice versa, or both with the church occupying the upper portion of the meeting house, which was originally the balcony level, and the town having its offices on the ground floor.
In any event, the Puritans were quite circumspect in insisting on Christian marriage within the church, the called-out congregation of God's elect.
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