Modeled on a 1709 Lowcountry wedding chapel, Charleston's Tidewater Wedding Chapel and Carriage House have been designed for the perfect wedding. Begin with your ceremony performed in the acoustically perfect chapel with perhaps a soloist in the balcony. Seating 100 guests on two-hundred-year-old beautifully curved oak hand-made pews, the wedding chapel will lend magic as you walk down the aisle to the curved apse. Six windows, three to each side, have 24-inch deep window sills on which to display floral arrangements.
Choose a man, woman or minister from our staff of attractive, well-dressed, articulate officiants to perform our traditional ceremony or feel free to express yourself by writing your own vows.
After the ceremony, recess to the receiving garden to greet your guests in a traditional Charleston garden. Perhaps you'd like a symphony string trio playing light classical music as the guests wish you well then proceed into the main courtyard and carriage house through a rose arbor. Consider your photographer capturing each couple as they pause under the arbor.
As guests move through the arbor into the main courtyard, they'll be invited toward the bar where they may order refreshments served by professional bartenders, as the wait staff passes hors d'oeuvres while the photographer is finishing your posed wedding photos. Guests will mingle and chat and enjoy refreshments until you and your groom are able to join them in the beautifully appointed carriage house where a lavish buffet or a sit-down dinner will be waiting.
Music from the bandstand by either live musicians or personally selected favorites played by a local DJ will have the guests tapping their toes after dinner and ready to dance the night away on the dance floor in front of the band. A classic Wurlitzer jukebox is available for your use, packed with old wedding favorites. For guests who would rather chat and catch up with old friends, the garden offers seating and beautiful night lighting to make sitting outside a pleasure. The covered gallery is especially attractive for conversation.
As you and your groom leave Tidewater Chapel to begin your life together, you'll know that your wedding day couldn't have been more perfect.
