Chapel Vandervoort

What:

Ceremony venue

Location:

190 Vandervoort Street

North Tonawanda, NY 14120

Price:

$225 with own officiant

$300 with their officiant

Capacity: 
200

Facilities: 
Main room, bride’s room

Contact:

Sandy, owner

716-417-3184

chapel190@aol.com (I didn’t receive a response to my email right away, so calling might be better)

Pros:

Inexpensive, cute, would easily work for a smaller group or a bigger one (“bigger” being 200), officiant available if needed

Cons:

Nowhere nearby to have the reception (that I found), somewhat out of the way in a residential neighborhood (which is nice in a way but could make it hard to find), might not be everyone’s style

My now-husband really liked this one, and we might have gone with it because of that and the price if we'd found somewhere to have the reception afterward.  However, the venue we'd had in mind to pair it with was the Screening Room (they're about 15 minutes apart, which is farther than I would have liked but would have been fine), but we'd already discovered it wouldn't work for us before seeing this one.  Since we didn't have an alternative reception venue in mind and were already looking into the venue we would end up using, which had room for both the ceremony and reception, we had to decide against Chapel Vandervoort.  But it was a nice little place; it was cool that there was a wedding chapel complete with a tower (check out the website for pictures) in the middle of a residential neighborhood, and that the owner, Sandy, also lives there--it made it seem personal and informal, which is a good thing to me.  It would make a quiet, cute location for a simple ceremony.

--Also note that a deposit is due in order to reserve your date, and the balance is due 60 days before the event, which is a lot farther in advance than the other places we looked at.  

Find more info on their website.