Attended a wedding in the chapel at Pepperdine, you can't beat the location: up on a high hill in Malibu, the ocean looking huge and blue in the background, the chapel is sort of spirited away to the side of campus, and has it's own 20-30 car parking lot, so you don't feel like you're on a college campus while you're there. You can hire an organist to play the wedding march. I never actually saw the organ (it's upstairs) but I definitely heard it as a precursor to the ceremony.
The stained glass is lovely but hard to get a picture inside-- either you focus on the glass itself and lose the subjects in the foreground to darkness, or you get the subjects but lose the stained glass. However, if I were shooting on my homie's Sony a7r I might not have these troubles...so if you have a solid camera test my theory!
A/C apparently exists but none of the guests nor I could tell. It's obviously not too bad since we're in naturally-breezy Malibu, but the bride in that dress, the groomsmen in 3-piece tuxes, I know they would've preferred A/C.
All in all a beautiful chapel for about 100 guests, and I know the bride got some special pictures on the hill with the ocean in the distance. read more