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Dr. La’Boris Cole-Sapp denies rumors that Bishop Marvin Sapp used church tithes to pay for their extravagant wedding.

Sapp and Cole-Sapp were married on March 20 at The Chosen Vessel Megachurch in Fort Worth, Texas, where he is senior pastor.

According to The Jasmine Brand, Cole-Sapp clapped back against unfounded rumors that church funds were used to pay for their lavish wedding.

Cole-Sapp addressed the rumors during Easter service.

In a video, she told her husband, “Despite what the haters on the internet say about you, you are an integral man. You don’t take or rob the church.”

Gossipmongers claim Sapp asked his parishioners for thousands of dollars in tithes to pay for the pricey wedding ceremony.

The elaborate expenses included multiple wedding dress changes, a ballerina, a wall of flowers and what looked like a movie set inside the sanctuary.

A videographer filmed Cole-Sapp arriving on a helicopter which is rented by the hour.

Cole-Sapp arrived on the helicopter along with her mother and father. While Sapp’s family waited inside the megachurch.

“The church didn’t pay for the wedding, y’all stop lying,” Cole-Sapp said.

“Everybody not broke [and] everybody don’t need the church’s money,” she continued. Cole-Sapp noted that both she and the Bishop have multiple streams of income.

Bishop Sapp was heavily criticized last year when he ordered ushers to lock the church doors. “No one leaves until we get $40,000,” he said in a viral video.

The incident happened during his sermon at the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World annual summer convention in 2024. But the video resurfaced online in March 2025.

The video clip shows Sapp telling ushers to lock the church doors until 1,000 people gave him $20 each.

He asked the people on stage with him to make an offering of $100 each. Viewers at home were also asked to donate online.

Sapp said his goal was to raise $40,000 for the church, but he didn’t specify what the money was for.