The Wayside Chapel

We came here over the weekend for my aunt’s wedding and it was super cute. The chapel is very small and quaint, but perfect for a small wedding. Obviously not for weddings of guests of 200. The pathway to the chapel was uphill and I would hate to walk up if it were icy. The walk is kind of long from the bottom of the hill. The grounds are beautiful and I wish we had more time and better weather to explore it. Unfortunately, it was 50 and rainy, so no exploring for me that day. I could see this place also being good for photo ops, just a pretty little place.

The grounds are beautiful, yes. Outdoor weddings here are great. That said, the chapel does not have the same feeling as the outdoor altar, and the staff is quick to say rain is in the forecast and your wedding is going inside! The chapel is dark, dank, small and awfully hot.
There is no flexibility from the staff here — their way or the highway, no matter what. My biggest complaint is there is inadequate waiting space for wedding parties. I have been here for two weddings and in both, the staff saw it fit to stuff too many people in an unventilated closet as a waiting area.

This place and the grounds are beautiful. My parents got married here over 15 years ago. The staff was very friendly and everyone in the wedding party and the guests was very satisfied. Since then I’ve attended 3 weddings here and it hasn’t changed much, it’s still a very beautiful place… I love the scenery and the fact that it’s a small venue makes it very intimate.

I really enjoyed myself here.
I went here yesterday for my friend’s wedding and it was really beautiful. They had it held outside and i’m really glad that the weather held up :)
No complaints from the bridal party or the guests.
I am also giving it 5 stars because 14 years ago my aunt and uncle were married here and it was as lovely as I remembered it.

We were married here a few years a go and had no problems at all. As stated in the other reviews the grounds are outstanding. We were married in May and it rained all morning before we were hitched so everything was in bloom. You have the option to get married inside or outside, but if you get married outside you have to supply the chairs and worry about bad weather. If I were to do it over again I would go with outside.
The person who oversaw the wedding was a ex-​catholic priest, which was great for a fallen catholic like myself. I don’t remember how much time we had if it was two or three hours long but I never felt rushed, although if we were to do it again we would block out two time periods instead of one. It was pretty inexpensive compared to a lot of places that were not nearly as nice. It is out of the way if you live on the north side but not bad if you live on the south side. I never really noticed the grumpy people, everyone seemed nice to me. Maybe I’m just used to the surly lady smoking the Capri 1000 after living on the south side for 8 years.

The chapel and grounds are adorable, quaint, and overall picturesque. It is very small and tucked into the woods, giving an almost medieval era feel to ceremonies. I have been to several weddings both inside the tiny chapel and out in the garden. They have been some of the most personalized, beautiful weddings I have attended.
I wish I could have such warm thoughts on the customer service. I was a bridesmaid at a wedding this past weekend and got a first hand look at their service. First, they are booking too many weddings for one day. We could not arrive on the grounds until 2:30 for a 3pm wedding. We arrived at 2:18 and our limo driver was yelled at as soon as we pulled up. Sure, we were a little early and perhaps it would effect the traffic flow down from the chapel, but there is a nice way to handle it and a jerky way to handle it. And this guy was a total jerk. Right at 2:30, we pulled back up and made our way down the path to the chapel gardens. The chapel’s coordinator ran up to the wedding party, spouting about how the florist messed up. Of course, this does not bode well for the bride’s nerves so we bridesmaids went up to assess the situation. The florist had not labeled the flowers… no big deal. I certainly need no labeling to clarify the difference between the bouquets and the boutonnieres. The wedding party was small so this was easy managed in less than 5 minutes. Certainly not the crisis she made it out to be. She also demanded the name of the florist so that she could «call and yell at them.» We did not provide any information, of course. Our next adventure was at the conclusion of the wedding. We had until 4:00pm to have wrapped up the wedding and taken pictures. At 3:45, the woman was rolling her eyes, sighing loudly and eventually yelled at the photographer to «hurry up» She continued to badger us until we finally gave up and left. We returned to the limo only to find our favorite guy from before also yelling at us to hurry along. This was so forced, that it caused us to leave behind a bridal party member. He had to catch a ride with the parents of the bride to catch up with us at the next photo location.

I think Patricia K.‘s three-​star review is far too generous.
Weddings are special days not to be forgotten; venue staff should recognize and appreciate their vital role.
The grounds are gorgeous. The location feels secluded and intimate. It’s quite a nice contrast from concrete churches and banquet halls. Unfortunately the staff is cold and often times surly, treating the wedding party and guests as cattle. Several times I felt that they were operating a wedding assembly line, hurrying one party out so the next could go through the motions. Thankfully, the bride and groom didn’t let these small bumps bother them. Everything was a great success.
A little humor was had while waiting to leave. We watched one of the «hurry up!» women standing akimbo, cigarette dangling from her lips. It seemed that she was impatiently waiting to go home after a long day of indifference. The dapper ringleader himself was arguing with another limo driver for a few minutes, too, with his loud Hawaiian-​print shirt saying everything that needed to be said about his classy ways.