Wedding Ceremony Information


    Wedding Ceremony Information

    • We are honoring our discontinued Diamond Wedding Package.
    • We include an experienced professional wedding officiant with every wedding. Howard and Jeffrey Petersen are the primary non-denominational wedding officiants. They have combined experience of well over a 1,000 wedding ceremonies officiated, and have written a guide on how to conduct wedding rehearsals. You may also bring your own wedding officiant, we are happy to assist them.
    • We can host more than one wedding in a day, but the weddings do not overlap.
    • Weddings include chapel, gazebo, and grounds. If there is inclement weather, the wedding may be performed in the chapel, the chapel is always ready for a wedding.
    • We include ceremony coordinators in Gold, Diamond, and Pearl Wedding Packages to help ensure your wedding goes smoothly.
    • The bridal cottage dressing room is included in all wedding packages except the Elopement/Small wedding packages, for the bride and bridesmaids to get dressed. Groom and groomsman arrive dressed.  If you are having a wedding reception, the groom and groomsman may get dressed in the banquet hall, but easier to arrive dressed.
    • The bridal cottage is for getting dressed only and is available one hour prior to ceremony for Silver, Gold, and Diamond Wedding Package.   The cottage is available one hour and 15 minutes before for the Pearl Wedding Package. All women have hair, makeup, and nails completed before arriving.
    • We set aside time slots the evening before the wedding for rehearsals.
    • Flower petals and bubbles are allowed, but bird seed, rice, glitter, and other small celebratory materials, can’t be used.
    • We do not provide decorations for gazebo or chapel.  The chapel and grounds are naturally beautiful, rarely do couples bring in decorations for ceremonies. Some couples provide pew decorations, there are eight pews, and typically a decoration is attached by clamp or rubber band.. Gazebo chair rows may be decorated.
    • Chapel in the Pines has traditional wedding music and offer a few popular wedding songs soon. If you prefer something other than what we provide, bring the music on a CD and or flash drive, and our staff will coordinate the music with the ceremony.  If Flash Drive, must format flashdrive to FAT32 format, recommend using a blank flash drive as all files will be erased and music file must be MP3 format.  Also, no file folders, our dj system can’t open a file folder.  Please test your CD and or flash drive in our music system before your big day. Here is a link: https://www.wikihow.com/Format-FAT32
    • Wedding ceremonies typically last up to 15-25 minutes, there is time for pictures after the ceremony.
    • Pictures are taken anywhere on the grounds, there are many locations throughout the property.
    • The gardens are well maintained May through October for great pictures.
    • Standard time frame for Friday and Saturday Diamond Wedding Package (Diamond is no longer offered) during the wedding season is:
      • 10:00 Access to banquet hall
      • 4:15 Use of bridal cottage, chapel, grounds, and gardens
      • 5:15 Wedding ceremony begins
      • 5:45 Guests enter banquet hall
      • 5:45 Bar opens
      • 10:30 Bar closes
      • 11:00 Music stops
      • 12:00 Lights out
    • Standard time frame for Friday and Saturday Pearl Wedding Package (New package as of 7/1/2019) during the wedding season is:
      • 10:00 Access to banquet hall
      • 4:00 Use of bridal cottage, chapel, grounds, and gardens
      • 5:15 Wedding ceremony begins
      • 5:45 Guests enter banquet hall
      • 5:45 Bar opens
      • 10:30 Bar closes
      • 11:15 Music stops
      • 12:00+ Lights out
    • Couples who want to extend these hours, can purchase extra hour(s) at $500 per hour, or 1/2 hour at $250. Couples can reserve up to 1 hour past the ending times, music and lights out. Open bar time is 4 hours and 45 minutes, it can be extended with cash bar only. When time is blocked off prior to the wedding, we then block off other weddings from being scheduled prior,  we can do more than one wedding in a day, but weddings never overlap.
    • We also offer a block of time of 2 hours and 15 minutes for $900.

    Deposit Information

    Elopements/Small Private Weddings Package deposit is $500, unless the package amount is less than $500, in that case the deposit is the amount of the package.

    Silver and Gold Wedding Package deposit is $500, remaining balance is due 30 days before the wedding date.  All payments contribute towards final balance. All payments are non-refundable and non-transferable.

    Pearl & Ruby Wedding Package (Ruby is wedding reception only, no ceremony) Deposit is $1,500 to reserve.  An installment payment of $1,500 is due 9 months prior to wedding date, $1,500 is due 6 months prior to wedding date, $1,500 is due 3 months prior to wedding date, and remaining balance is due 10 days before wedding.  All payments contribute towards final balance. All payments are non-refundable and non-transferable.

    There are no gratuity fees, service fees, or hidden fees, and sales tax is included.  The fee for our venue/services on our website is all you are required to pay.  There are no gratuity fees, but the officiant and staff/coordinators appreciate a token gratuity.  Most venues require 20%.

    You can reserve online here!

     

    Wedding Ceremony Information