Wedding Reservations

To make a reservation for a wedding (no more than one year ahead of tme), please review the wedding policy section and then complete our online application. Also, see our list of local musicians and a list of lodgings in the area.

Applying for Permission to Use the Chapel
Please submit our online Application indicating your first three choices for date and time of your wedding AND your first three choices for date and time of your rehearsal.

In a few days you will receive an email from Gayle Higgins, the Senior Administrative Assistant for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life indicating which dates and times are available for your wedding and rehearsal. Your reservation is tentatively confirmed at this time. If you decide to make arrangements for your wedding elsewhere, please email that information back to Gayle Higgins immediately. Please note that final confirmation can only take place six months before the date you were given due to the complexity of the college calendar.

Once this email is sent to you, a copy will be sent to the comptroller for the college who will bill you directly. Please do not send any money to the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life.

Scheduling
There are two chapels, either of which may be reserved. The main chapel seats approximately 900 people. The small chapel seats approximately 65 comfortably. The Fiske and Skinner organs are in the Main Chapel. The small chapel is equipped with a console piano.

Weddings may not take place during regularly scheduled College events or holidays, such as Orientation, Family Weekend, Founder’s Day Weekend, Thanksgiving Break, Christmas Vespers’ Week, Christmas/Holiday Break, Commencement, and Reunion Weekends. Also included are the first two weekends in November and the entire month of April. During the academic year, we cannot accommodate Friday or Sunday weddings and Wedding Rehearsals must be at 6:30 pm or later on Fridays.

Wedding rehearsals are scheduled for one hour; weddings are scheduled for one and one-half hours. The rehearsal and wedding must begin at the time designated, out of courtesy to others participating in your ceremony and other scheduled ceremonies.