Wedding in a chapel

COSmitty

Regardless we'll be traveling for our wedding... I am hoping to have the priest from my old parish marry us. I love my old church but it's huge and I won't be having a huge wedding... so I was looking at chapels. The diococese does not post anything against using chapels in that area (I know some do).

One I am looking at used to be on a military base and it was a formal military chapel. Now it's run by an event center but it's still a chapel. 

Are there any restrictions from having a catholic marraige ceremony there? Is there a question I should be asking them or my priest (who we are hoping to meet with in a couple weeks). We may or may not be doing communion (still TBD).

ootmother2

I've been to three weddings at the chapel on the Navy base in Newport, R.I.

Two Catholic, on non denominational.  They were all cousins of mine and their dad was in the Navy.  I don't know if it can be used by civilians or not.

You can always ask.

Calypso1977

do you want to get married in your church?  dont let the size turn you away.

our church easily holds 400 or so.  we had 75 in attendance.  its perfectly fine to have a large church with a small wedding.

COSmitty

While I love my old church for many reasons there are a couple personal reasons why I would prefer not to have a wedding at that site (only one has to do with the large size of it). 

I think as long as when the land got transferred from the military to the private sector they didn't (for lack of a better term) decommission the chapel it will be a possible site. I'll double check with the priest when we (hopefully) meet with him.

Thanks. 

ootmother2

Sorry, I don't know Northern California well enough to know where there's a suitable chapel.  I do remember one in Sonoma and one in Bodega Bay, if that's close to you.

Did you post this on your local board?

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Good luck!

COSmitty

Ah- have chapel now (a sorta private one) which is through a local church that has worked with my priest before <thank goodness>. Now I just have to figure out the (from another state) legal vs church requirements and what parish I should register for locally (I've been trying out about 10 over the past couple of years).