Weddings at MHC

Weddings at MHC

Campus Community
The  primary use of Abbey Chapel is by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and the Music Department at Mount Holyoke College.

The College extends the privilege of using the Chapel for weddings to the following members of the Mount Holyoke College community:

faculty
staff
students
alumnae
and their immediate families, i.e. mother, father, daughter, son, sister, and brother

There are two chapels, either of which may be reserved. The main chapel seats approximately 900 people. The small chapel seats approximately 65 comfortably. The Fiske and Skinner organs are in the Main Chapel. The small chapel is equipped with a console piano.

Weddings may not take place during regularly scheduled College events or holidays, such as Orientation, Family Weekend, Founder’s Day Weekend, Thanksgiving Break, Christmas Vespers’ Week, Christmas/Holiday Break, Commencement, and Reunion Weekends. Also included are the first two weekends in November and the entire month of April. During the academic year, we cannot accommodate Friday or Sunday weddings and Wedding Rehearsals must be at 6:30 pm or later on Fridays.

Please note:
1.  We do not accept reservations more than a year in advance of the event date due to complexities of the College calendar.  When your wedding date is one year or less away and you have decided to request the use of the Abbey Chapel, please submit an application.  An application will be considered intent to rent the chapel and will be followed up with an email response noting which dates and times you have reserved.  A bill from the MHC Comptrollers office will be sent out to the Person Responsible for Payment identified on the Application and is payable upon receipt.  This bill will be for both the $500 non-refundable rental fee and $500 Security Deposit which will be returned after the wedding minus any fees or fines. 

2.  Persons applying must be in good standing financially with Mount Holyoke College to make a reservation. Reservations will not be made for anyone with an outstanding bill.

To make a reservation, please fill out a Wedding Application.  For Mount Holyoke affiliated funerals or baptisms, contact the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life by calling(413) 538-2054 between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., Monday through Wednesday.