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Reviews of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
April Sent on 12/22/2011
4.7 out of 5 rating
We had our wedding ceremony at IHM, not reception. IHM is a Catholic Church so to be married there you'd have to go through the correct procedures beforehand. For information on that you can contact the pastoral assistant, and you can get the contact info by googling IHM in Grand Junction.
The pastoral assistant was a life saver for my husband and I. Without her, we would have had no idea how to go about planning our wedding ceremony. She gave us a book with all the different options for readings and things like that so that our ceremony felt more personalized for us.
The priest who officiated our ceremony was passing through while the resident priest was away, but he was fantastic and we were very happy to have him do our ceremony.
The church has a "bride's room" where my girls and I got ready (with a bathroom and everything), and a rec room down the hall where the men were able to hang out and try to relax before the ceremony. They got some good photos of the guys in their tuxes with a pool table in there.
The church is a more modern-looking, circluar design with the altar in the center. I wasn't thrilled with it at first, but there are many sky-lights and it made our ceremony so bright and beautiful that I ended up loving it. We also had our ceremony over Pentacost and all the flowers they had laid out for the season were beautiful as well, and we didn't need to order many flowers to decorate!
We hired a singer and a pianist from the church to do our ceremony music (all of which we were allowed to pick out). It was perfect.
The only reason I give it 3.5 stars for flexibility is because we didn't have a lot of options in choosing a date for our wedding--in that aspect, the church was definitely the limiting factor in that decision. And for the date we ended up choosing, there were only two times we could choose between--10AM and 11AM. Such an early wedding ceremony made it VERY difficult for me to get my hair done on time and we didn't end up doing the photos we wanted to before the ceremony with our photographer because we ran out of time. But, I still highly recommend IHM if you're looking to get married in the Catholic Church!
The pastoral assistant was a life saver for my husband and I. Without her, we would have had no idea how to go about planning our wedding ceremony. She gave us a book with all the different options for readings and things like that so that our ceremony felt more personalized for us.
The priest who officiated our ceremony was passing through while the resident priest was away, but he was fantastic and we were very happy to have him do our ceremony.
The church has a "bride's room" where my girls and I got ready (with a bathroom and everything), and a rec room down the hall where the men were able to hang out and try to relax before the ceremony. They got some good photos of the guys in their tuxes with a pool table in there.
The church is a more modern-looking, circluar design with the altar in the center. I wasn't thrilled with it at first, but there are many sky-lights and it made our ceremony so bright and beautiful that I ended up loving it. We also had our ceremony over Pentacost and all the flowers they had laid out for the season were beautiful as well, and we didn't need to order many flowers to decorate!
We hired a singer and a pianist from the church to do our ceremony music (all of which we were allowed to pick out). It was perfect.
The only reason I give it 3.5 stars for flexibility is because we didn't have a lot of options in choosing a date for our wedding--in that aspect, the church was definitely the limiting factor in that decision. And for the date we ended up choosing, there were only two times we could choose between--10AM and 11AM. Such an early wedding ceremony made it VERY difficult for me to get my hair done on time and we didn't end up doing the photos we wanted to before the ceremony with our photographer because we ran out of time. But, I still highly recommend IHM if you're looking to get married in the Catholic Church!
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