Transitions like weddings

Take time to adjust to transitions! Marriage is a huge transition. Whatever big changes are happening in your life, take it is easy, go slow, and give yourself and people around you time to adjust. It's not a time for impatience!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here's to a blessed Thanksgiving for all... a favorite holiday of mine, just to pause and be grateful! A great saint once said gratitude alone is enough to take you all the way to God. I'm so grateful for my incredible wife, my sweet cat, my family and friends, great music, inspiring mountains, my wedding chapel and all the wonderful couples who come here to have their wedding, my freedoms... I could go on and on. The Thanksgiving feast ain't half bad either... Rev Chris Mohr

How Much Time Do You Need for a Wedding?

Brides often have no idea how long a wedding takes at Foothills Chapel. A lot depends on how many people are coming. If you have between 30 and 120 people, you can get by with 2 hours at a wedding chapel. Come with your hair and makeup already done and delegate everything to friends and family so you can get into your dress and do final touches in 30 minutes. Leave 35 minutes for the minister wedding ceremony (starting 5 minutes late, 5 minutes to process in, 15-20 minutes for a simple ceremony, five minutes to march out) and 15 minutes for the guests to leave. That leaves about 40 minutes for pictures and your two hours is up.

That's a little tight but it can be done. With a time block of two and a half hours you can have more prep time and a little time for pictures with you and the bridesmaids as well as the groom and his buddies beforehand. Three hours is really comfortable. More than that and your photographer will just waste time and your guests will get antsy waiting for you!

With 10-30 people and a very short wedding ceremony, maybe you can get by with only 90 minutes. The one-hour wedding time frame is for brides who come dressed and ready to go (no dressing room), with 10 guests or less. It's hard to pull off and be at all relaxed!

We normally rent the wedding chapel for six hours if there is also a reception happening in our wedding banquet room. That's just one hour to get ready, 75 minutes for the ceremony and pictures, 90 minutes for dinner and cake, 30 minutes for toasts and the first dances, 90 minutes or so to mingle, and 30 minutes to knock down and go home.

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