A Colorado church halted a woman's funeral on Saturday because a video of photos from her life showed she was married to a woman.

Many people were already seated at the service for Vanessa Collier, 33, at around 10 a.m. local time, Jose Silva, a family friend, told Mashable. But 15 minutes later, they were forced to pick up everything, including Collier's casket, and finish across the street at a funeral home.

New Hope Pastor Ray Chavez said the church wouldn't host the funeral so long as Collier's video displayed images of Collier with her wife, Christina Higley, that made it clear she was lesbian, Silva said. Chavez hadn't reviewed the video until the funeral had started, though Silva said the family submitted it two days before. The pastor asked the family if they wanted to edit some of the photos, and they declined.

According to The Washington Post, the church has a slightly different version of events, saying that church employees got in touch with the family about the video just before the funeral was set to begin.

New Hope Ministries did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On the church's website, it is described as "a place where those bound by drugs, alcohol, gangs and violence can find an 'Ounce of Hope,'" which is also the title of Chavez's book about his life.

"I only hoped we could find a house of God to celebrate my beautiful wife and her life (HER WHOLE LIFE) and lay her to rest in God's arms," Higley wrote on her Facebook page. "Is it too much to ask for? To reflect on how beautiful her life is, with all of her family including myself, her children, her family and closest friends?"

Samantha Getman, a family friend and pallbearer at the funeral, told Mashable that Collier's family and friends were obviously already upset, and having to move left most of them stunned and confused.

“Everybody started finding out what really happened and it was just, like, anger, heartbreak — just devastation, like, what do you mean?," Getman said. “You’re a man of God. How can you tell people that she’s not a woman of God?”

Around 100 supporters of Collier protested Chavez's actions outside New Hope Ministries on Tuesday, Silva said. They are demanding an apology from Chavez and they want a refund on the $400 they paid to hold the service at New Hope Ministries.

“They won’t speak to us, they won’t speak to the family," said Silva, who helped organize the protest. “I don’t want [Chavez] to throw out Bible verses in his apology … I want him to talk from the heart about how he failed.”

Collier died on Dec. 29, 2014, and is survived by Higley and two daughters, who are 12 and 7 years old.