Feature
University Daily Kansan / Friday, August 31, 1990
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Goin' to the Chapel...
Story by Karen Park Photos by Keith Thorpe
Some people dream of weddings as grand as the royalty — just Westminster Abbey and 500 of them.
But big don’t necessarily mean better. Ku's Danforth Chapel offers couples a simple, intimate setting.
"It's small so you don't feel like you have to invite half the world," said Dan James, a Lawrence resident and 1958 KU graduate, who was married in the chapel in June.
It's a very intimate, quiet and attractive
place where you can go to meditate in quiet or
get relaxed.
Since 1946, nearly 400,000 couples have exchanged their wedding vows in the KU chapel. James said the婚礼 date was a spur of his idea, but that he was also able to reserve the chapel.
Lori Kohlbohmer, organizations and activities secretary, said a couple could come to the office during the day and reserve the chapel for the same evening if there was not a previous reservation. She said May and June were the busiest months.
"As long as they have a wedding license, they can get married there." she said
Linda Davis, a Lawrence resident who was married at Danforth in 1988, said she liked the way Mr. Davis had interacted with her.
It's a pretty huge chapel, she sna-ted.
For Kay and Greg Sherman, two KU students,
the chapel was a symbolic place. Both have gone
to KU for four years.
"It was a very special place because it's in the middle of campus where so much is going on and it's so quiet inside," said Kay Sherman, Lawrence senior.
Mike Williams, visiting journalism professionals, said he was married to Dan Tormento the day he left college.
"We're not real religious people," he said. The relatives were in town for the commencement and the ceremony, where many of them were present.
Williams said the most memorable moment of the wedding was when the organist, a Fine Arts student, played a solo.
"The bridesmaids had to hum 'Here comes the bride,' because we didn't have an organist," he said. "It was a nice, quiet place of onion, with applings of a church, but it was not overbearing."
Another attractive aspect about Danforth is that couples do not have to pay any money to use the chapel. Sherman said couples just have to tell Student Organizations and Activities if they want use the organ and if they want to use the candelabras.
The wedding party is responsible for decorating the chapel, but most said they did not do it.
"We didn't put many flowers around, because it's just so pretty by itself," Kay Sherman said. "We had one big plant on the alter and greenery on the cannelabras."
Wedding parties are allowed one hour for rehearsal. On the day of the wedding, if there is only one wedding, the couple has an unlimited amount of time for the ceremony.
The chapel also allows couples to have any kind of ceremony they wish to have.
Jaimes said he wore a suit and his wife wore a casual outfit.
"The ceremony only lasted 10 minutes," he said.
The chapel) has one small room, but most of the couples said it was not large enough for the bachelor.
Kay Sherman said she dressed at a local hotel where her parents were staying.
Although the chapel is very small — it only seats 90 people — the couples said it was nice for them.
"It's not so big that you get lost in the shuffle, but it isn't too small either." Key Sherman said. "I don't think it's going to hurt me."
After the ceremony, the Martins walk outside the chapel. More than 4,000 people have been married there.
Jim Martin, of Lawrence, kisses his new bride, Donna Thompson, of Reno, Nev., after their wedding at Danforth Chapel.
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