A By-The-Sea-Wedding & Monterey Stone Chapel Reviews

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• Kristin Sent on 08/14/2012
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  Monterey Stone Chapel was the perfect venue for our wedding! If you are looking for a small intimte wedding this is the place! We got married this weekend 8/11 a monterey stone chapel, they do it all if you want them too Marriage license, officiant, photo/video and all at extremly reasonable prices! The ladies that run this chapel are very accomadating! due to a carshow/races and an accident on HWY 1 alot of our guests ended up being extremly late for the ceremony (up to 45 minutes) and they accomadated us and let us wait as long as we needed to ensure our guests arrived to see us married! they did not push us to start before people arrived and were so nice they really understand how much stress this can be on the couple marrying! We had our own officiant do our ceremony which they had no problem with the photographer they set us up with did an amazing job the only negative was they videographer couldnt wait to long since we were delayed and we ended up having some friends video the ceremony (videographer had another wedding booked and we were running extemly late i dont blame him or the capel for this) Great expereince and beautiful ceremony loction!

  Monterey Stone Chapel was the perfect venue for our wedding! If you are looking for a small intimte wedding this is the place! We got married this weekend 8/11 a monterey stone chapel, they do it all if you want them too Marriage license, officiant, photo/video and all at extremly reasonable prices! The ladies that run this chapel are very accomadating! due to a carshow/races and an accident on HWY 1 alot of our guests ended up being extremly late for the ceremony (up to 45 minutes) and they accomadated us and let us wait as long as we needed to ensure our guests arrived to see us married! they did not push us to start before people arrived and were so nice they really understand how much stress this can be on the couple marrying! We had our own officiant do our ceremony which they had no problem with the photographer they set us up with did an amazing job the only negative was they videographer couldnt wait to long since we were delayed and we ended up having some friends video the ceremony (videographer had another wedding booked and we were running extemly late i dont blame him or the capel for this) Great expereince and beautiful ceremony loction!
• Heather Sent on 01/11/2013
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  Rev. Patt O'Brien at A-By-the-Sea-Wedding was great! Our wedding was a destination wedding so we didn't get to meet with her before the wedding. I talked with her on the phone several times and she is a very sweet lady. She did a beautiful but simple ceremony for us as we requested. It was perfect!

  Rev. Patt O'Brien at A-By-the-Sea-Wedding was great! Our wedding was a destination wedding so we didn't get to meet with her before the wedding. I talked with her on the phone several times and she is a very sweet lady. She did a beautiful but simple ceremony for us as we requested. It was perfect!
• Samantha Sent on 05/01/2012
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  Patt performed my wedding ceremony in April 2012.
  
  Patt was extremely professional, arriving early so that she could meet both myself and my fiance. She made the ceremony fun, bringing tissues for guests and discreetly telling us what to do as we did not have a rehearsal.
  
  Highly recommended.

  Patt performed my wedding ceremony in April 2012.
  
  Patt was extremely professional, arriving early so that she could meet both myself and my fiance. She made the ceremony fun, bringing tissues for guests and discreetly telling us what to do as we did not have a rehearsal.
  
  Highly recommended.
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• Rebekah Sent on 08/28/2010
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  The chapel itself is beautiful. It is a little bit small, but that made it perfect for what we were looking for. It is so cozy, and the fact that it's already decorated is a huge plus! Pat was the one who officiated our ceremony and she did an amazing job!

  The chapel itself is beautiful. It is a little bit small, but that made it perfect for what we were looking for. It is so cozy, and the fact that it's already decorated is a huge plus! Pat was the one who officiated our ceremony and she did an amazing job!
• Joel Sent on 06/26/2011
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  Not a fan of "A By The Sea Wedding & Monterey Stone Chapel".  My then-fiance and I found the company online while searching for a beach wedding package (we live in Colorado and flew out to Monterey to elope).  Our Officiant, Patt O'Brien told us we would have many options for sandy beach wedding spots in the area and said we could pick a spot and let her know where to meet us.  Unfortunately, once we had picked the perfect private spot, we discovered Patt was absolutely terrified of the water!  She was so upset about the waves behind our beach spot that she threatened to leave with our deposit and leave us shanghaied in the area with no alternate to marry us!  To appease Patt, we agreed to get married in an alternative spot -- crowded with people playing on the beach -- but Patt nonetheless tried to convince us to get married in a grove of trees instead.  Sadly, our very-public wedding photos didn't turn out much better with all the gawking people standing around in the background.  The one upside to the wedding was that Patt was able to notarize our marriage license and did a good job with the paperwork.  Just don't go with 'A-By-The-Sea-Wedding' if you actually plan to get married on a beach!!!

  Not a fan of "A By The Sea Wedding & Monterey Stone Chapel".  My then-fiance and I found the company online while searching for a beach wedding package (we live in Colorado and flew out to Monterey to elope).  Our Officiant, Patt O'Brien told us we would have many options for sandy beach wedding spots in the area and said we could pick a spot and let her know where to meet us.  Unfortunately, once we had picked the perfect private spot, we discovered Patt was absolutely terrified of the water!  She was so upset about the waves behind our beach spot that she threatened to leave with our deposit and leave us shanghaied in the area with no alternate to marry us!  To appease Patt, we agreed to get married in an alternative spot -- crowded with people playing on the beach -- but Patt nonetheless tried to convince us to get married in a grove of trees instead.  Sadly, our very-public wedding photos didn't turn out much better with all the gawking people standing around in the background.  The one upside to the wedding was that Patt was able to notarize our marriage license and did a good job with the paperwork.  Just don't go with 'A-By-The-Sea-Wedding' if you actually plan to get married on a beach!!!