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Our Lady of the Mountains is located on 920 Big Thompson Ave., overlooking Lake Estes.


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Our Lady of the Mountains is a beautiful Catholic Church in Estes Park, Colorado. Many brides, near and far, wish to be married here. We receive hundreds of requests each year from couples that want to use our parish church for their weddings. Because of the overwhelming popularity of our church, we have created a policy to allow couples that live outside our parish boundaries to use our church for their weddings. These policies are outlined below. If you are a member of Our Lady of the Mountains, and wish to have your ceremony in your parish, please contact Fr. Grzegorz Cioch (970-586-8111 or cioch@hotmail.com) at least EIGHT MONTHS in advance.

Whether you are a parishioner of Our Lady of the Mountains, or a visiting couple, the following guidelines apply to all:
  1. Weddings are scheduled at 10:00am and 1:30pm on Saturdays with rehearsals held on the Friday evening before the wedding at 5:00pm and 6:00pm. If the rehearsal falls on the First Friday of the month, the rehearsals will be held at 5:30pm and 6:30pm.

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  2. You are allowed to use the facilities 1 hour before and 1 hour after the wedding for photographs, dressing, etc.

  3. No aisle runners may be used

  4. You must remove your flowers from the altar, programs from the pews, and clothing from the dressing area within an hour after the wedding ceremony.

  5. No candles can be lit by the congregation or set on the windowsills or hung from the pews of the church. A Unity Candle or a candelabra in the altar area is permissible.

  6. Your photographer and videographer must work within the areas designated by the wedding coordinator.

  7. You may bring your own musicians. We have an organ, piano and electric piano for their use. Please contact Sharon for a list of local musicians.

  8. We have a dressing area for the bride and her attendants in the lower center of the church.

  9. No birdseed, silly string, rice or flowers, etc. are to be thrown inside or outside the church.

  10. The wedding party will not consume alcohol on the day of the ceremony.
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If you are not a parishioner of Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church, and you wish to have your wedding ceremony at our church, please read the following:
  1. We ask that you plan your wedding with our Wedding Coordinator, Sharon Brubaker (olmweddings@qwestoffice.net or 970-586-8111). She has extensive experience in helping to plan weddings at our church.

  2. This is a Roman Catholic Church and one of the parties must be a practicing Catholic.

  3. The couple must provide their own priest or deacon because our pastor has many Masses scheduled over the weekends and is unable to preside over your ceremony. If you are unable to provide a priest or deacon, discuss this with the wedding coordinator, she may be able to help you. The date of your wedding will be secured only AFTER we receive a letter from your priest or deacon informing us that he is assisting you in the marriage preparation process and will come to Estes Park to witness your ceremony.

  4. The couple must complete the marriage preparation program in the parish in which they reside and receive permission of their pastor to be married outside their parish. For more information on the Marriage Preparation Process, click here.
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    • If the parish at which the couple prepares for marriage is outside the Archdiocese of Denver, a priest or deacon needs to send the complete paperwork to their local Chancellery, and they will forward it to our Chancellery. Our Chancellery then will send the paperwork to our parish. This process guarantees that requirements of the Diocesan Churches are fulfilled and we have all necessary paperwork. We need these documents well in advance and not on the day of the wedding. Without proper paperwork, you cannot use the church for your wedding.
    • If the couple comes from another parish in the Archdiocese of Denver, the complete paperwork can be sent directly from your parish to our parish.
  5. Your wedding date will be secured only after we receive a $1,500 check made out to Our Lady of the Mountains' Building Fund. ($1,150 of this may be used as a tax-deductible donation.) We are a small parish and we have recently undergone an extensive renovation project. Your donation will help us to maintain the church and its beauty for generations to come. We will return $250 to you if the church is left on time, clean and undamaged. We found it necessary to charge this fee because of damages to the facilities and wedding parties not honoring their scheduled times of vacating the premises.
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