Wedding Guidelines

We are pleased that you are considering Union Chapel as the site for your wedding. If you select our church, we will do all within our power to make sure your wedding will be a very special day.

Union Chapel Wedding Facilities:
Our church sanctuary was built in the early 1950's in the New England style. It has 14 pews on either side of the center aisle, with each pew comfortably seating six to eight adults. That creates a seating capacity on the main floor of approximately 225 guests. There is also a balcony that will seat an additional 50 people, giving you a total seating capacity 275. We have recently installed an elevator that your guests can use to reach both the sanctuary and lower floor.

Dressing rooms are located in the back of our church for your use. The church is fully air conditioned and heated to make you and your guests comfortable on your special day.

Your Service and Decorations:
Our philosophy on hosting a wedding at our church is that we will work with you to design your special day within a Christian context. We will suggest a wedding service while giving you the freedom to change, delete, add to, or even propose an alternate service. We will allow you to select the music you wish to use at your service with the final approval of the music director or the pastor. We will allow you to decorate the sanctuary as you so desire.

Your Wedding Timetable:
It is our policy to host only one wedding per weekend, with very few exceptions, which gives you the freedom to set the time for the rehearsal, when to arrive at the church to dress, when to take pictures and to set the time for your wedding that best fits into your schedule.

Pastoral Authority:
Union Chapel is available to members, constituent members, and those looking to locate a Christian setting for their wedding. While other ministers are invited to take part in the wedding service (at the discretion of the Union Chapel pastor) the pastor of our church is in charge of any and all services conducted within our building. It is therefore not available for rental where someone other than our pastor will be conducting the service.

Scheduling Your Wedding at Union Chapel:
A wedding is not officially booked on our church calendar until we have the necessary information and the deposit has been received. We encourage you to book your wedding as soon as possible as it is not uncommon for us to book weddings up to a year in advance.

We hope this information will help you select a church to host your wedding. If you have any further questions, would like a more detailed wedding brochure or a price list, please contact us at:

Union Chapel United Methodist Church
2720 East 86th Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46240
317.846.3429
office@unionchapelnora.org