If
you were married at Church of the Angels, on Avenue 64 in Pasadena, please mark
your calendars for this once-in-a-lifetime special event! On June 21st
at 2:00 p.m., the church will celebrate 125 years of weddings by renewing the
wedding vows of every couple in attendance who was married there. Brides are invited
to wear their wedding gowns (or to have another family member wear the gown),
and an album of wedding photos that couples provide will be available. A
reception for all the still-happy couples follows the ceremony. To receive
updates and more details on this event, please send your contact information to
churchoftheangels125th@gmail.com.
Every
couple remembers their wedding, of course; but getting married at Church of the
Angels sets your wedding apart from any other southern California wedding. The
church is patterned after Holmsbury, St. Mary’s Church near Dorking, Surrey,
England. It isn’t the oldest church in
the region, but it is the only one of its kind -- a charming old brick building
with a gorgeous stained glass window filling its entire front wall, and the
original 1889 organ still providing the music. The cornerstone for the church
was laid on Easter Eve, April 20, 1889, and the building was consecrated on St.
Michael and All Angels Day, September 29, of 1889. (Please visit http://www.coa-pasadena.org/ for more on the
church’s history, including the newly-restored original Roosevelt organ.)
The
church is eager to include everyone who was married there in the renewal of
their wedding vows at this unique 125th-anniversary ceremony.
Couples married within the last decade have already been added to an e-mail
list, but the church may have no current contact information for couples
married before 2005. If you were married at Church of the Angels, or if you
know someone else who was married there, please contact (or have them contact) churchoftheangels125th@gmail.com, or e-mail
Wedding Coordinator Rebecca Woods at coaweddings@gmail.com. You can also
visit us at https://www.facebook.com/COAWeddings?ref=hl.
