The Chapel at Wimberley Photographer & Videographer Guide

Yes, you can come see your chapel again before the big day. Here's how each kind of visit works.

A walkthrough before your wedding

Book any open time on our Venue Tour calendar. It's the same free, self-guided tour as a first visit, about 30 minutes. When you book, choose the option that says you're already booked with us.

Bring whoever you'd like to show around: parents, your planner, the aunt flying in from out of town. The booking asks how many are coming so we know who to expect.

It's a great time to discuss and finalize details for your big day. Tours end right on time, often because we're setting up for a wedding after, so plan to arrive at the start.

Tour times vary week to week, and we open them about three to four weeks ahead. The times on the calendar are the times we have.

We don't book separate walkthroughs, so a Venue Tour is the way to see the chapel before your wedding.

You can also send your vendors this Bride Guide so they have the details ahead of time. Each has a one-page summary: vendors, photographers, officiants, and your music lead.

Engagement, invitation, or bridal photos

Tours are for looking around, so for a photo shoot, book a Portrait Session: $200 for one hour on select weekdays, booked no more than four weeks ahead. You get the chapel, the grounds, and a bride & groom suite of your own. Bring your own photographer.

Coming back after the wedding

Want a couple's shoot in your wedding attire after the day? A Portrait Session works for that too.

No drop-ins

Outside of a tour, a rehearsal, or a portrait session, the chapel isn't open for drop-ins. Most days we're hosting a wedding or getting ready for one.

Finding us

The chapel sits in the Texas Hill Country about 20 minutes from Wimberley, between Austin and San Antonio.

644 Ghost Dancer, Fischer, TX 78623

Searching "The Chapel at Wimberley" in Google Maps routes you right to our door — that's the easiest thing to put on your invitations and share with vendors. Cell service can get spotty in the hills, so have your navigation running before you leave the main roads. For turn-by-turn directions from Austin or San Antonio, see our directions page.

About the last stretch: the final ~1.3 miles to the chapel are a Hill Country dirt road — that's the normal way in, and every car handles it just fine, rain or shine. When the pavement ends, you're almost here; keep following your navigation.

The lay of the land

Parking

On-site parking is included for all your guests, steps from the chapel, with accessible parking, a ramp, and an accessible bathroom.

Two lots. Guests park in the main lot and take the short path up to the chapel. The side lot next to the suites is for accessible parking, vendors, the two of you, and family who are arriving with you to help unload and set up. It is a much shorter carry from there, so send anyone bringing decor, cake, or coolers to that lot.

When to arrive

• You (the couple): the chapel is privately yours from the minute your window opens — walk in at the start. Signature and Premier couples head straight to the suites.
• Your guests: no earlier than 15 minutes before the ceremony begins. That's plenty of time to park, find a seat, and enjoy the prelude music. Put your ceremony time on your invitations and wedding website, not your window start, and ask guests not to come early. Early arrivals end up waiting outside while you're still getting ready. Running early? Our directions page lists easy nearby stops to pass the time.
• Your vendors: at the window start, not before — details on the vendor page.

If a couple sent you this page: welcome — this is everything you need for a smooth day at The Chapel at Wimberley.

Who's welcome

These outside vendors are welcome on the premises:

• Photographer
• Videographer
• Officiant
• Coordinator
• Florist
• Musician (violinist, guitarist, and the like)
• Food drop-off from a restaurant or caterer (Premier with Grazing Table Setup — cold or room-temperature food, drop-off only)

Any other vendor needs prior written approval from the venue — have your couple text us at (830) 402-5690 before the day.

Timing

The couple has the chapel for a private window, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, or 3.5 hours depending on their experience (their timeline shows how it flows). Vendors arrive when the window opens and depart by the time it closes — load-in, work, and load-out all live inside it. There's no early-access slot, so plan staging accordingly.

Parking

• Use the side lot next to the suites, not the main guest lot. It is steps from the chapel's side entrance, so load-in is short.
• The two accessible spaces are in the same lot. Please leave those free.

How the chapel is set up

The chairs and tables are already in place when the window opens, set to the floor plans on chapel layout & seating:

• 48 chairs by default: 6 rows of 4 on each side of a 6' center aisle.
• Bigger Premier weddings: a seventh row for 56 guests; seven rows of five, using the space along the walls, for 70. The couple's final count from their Pre-Wedding Questionnaire sets the number.
• Tables: an entry table (52" × 22") just inside the doors, a cake table (5' × 30"), and a ceremony table (2' × 18") at the front if the couple wants one. The couple decides what goes on each.

Good to know

• Inside the chapel, the left closet is for vendors and storage. Any equipment you need to stash away can go in there.
• Fridge: the left closet also has a full-size refrigerator you're welcome to use — a 20 cu. ft. Frigidaire, fridge only (no freezer), about 33" wide × 72" tall × 30" deep, with four adjustable full-width glass shelves, a bottom basket, and five door bins. Plenty of room for flowers, cake boxes, and food trays.
• WiFi: join TCW Guest — there's no password. We have fiber internet with good connectivity, and vendors are welcome to use it.
• You don't count toward the guest count — vendors are working the ceremony, and you're welcome throughout it.

Vendor-specific notes

• Officiants: a clear acrylic podium is available if you'd like one — no need to arrange it ahead of time. It's floor-standing, 42.3" tall, with a 23.6" × 15.7" tilting top and a front lip so your notes stay put (photo and sizes). It lives in a storage closet at the chapel; just ask when you arrive and we'll grab it.
• Musicians: bring your own amplification if you want it. The chapel's built-in system streams from a phone over AirPlay; it isn't a plug-in PA. Full details: how music works at the chapel.
• Florists: decor is ground-level only, nothing attached to the walls, and every install comes back out before the window ends. Full rules: decorating the chapel.
• Photographers: the chapel is fully enclosed and air-conditioned with an arched window behind the altar; all photos — including grounds — wrap by window close.
• We do not require a certificate of insurance from you.

Getting here: "The Chapel at Wimberley" in Google Maps routes correctly — directions & arrival.

The chapel runs on fiber internet, with WiFi throughout the venue — the chapel, the patio, and the suites. Two networks, two jobs.

For everyone: TCW Guest

• Network: TCW Guest
• Password: none — just join

This is the one for you, your guests, your officiant, your photographer, and your vendors: sharing photos, FaceTiming someone who couldn't make it, uploading, whatever the day calls for.

For the ceremony music: TCW Music

The chapel speakers live on their own network. The phone running your music joins this one so the speakers show up in its AirPlay menu:

• Network: TCW Music
• Password: chapelmusic

Only the music phone needs TCW Music — everyone else stays on TCW Guest. The full connect-and-play walkthrough is on your music lead's page: chapeltx.com/guide/running-the-music.

Good to know

• Even on fiber, download your playlists for offline playback before the day — a downloaded playlist can never buffer at the wrong moment. See how music works.
• Vendors and photographers are welcome on TCW Guest for uploads and backups during the window. More in vendor arrival & guidelines.
• Trouble joining? Find our team member at the chapel, or text (830) 402-5690.

Your photographer and videographer are welcome vendors — in the room from the minute your window opens to the minute it closes, chapel and grounds alike. Here's what helps them do their best work.

Plan the shot list backward from your window

All photography, including on the grounds, wraps when your window ends — so build the timeline from the close backward. On a 90-minute Signature that's roughly 20 minutes of photos after the ceremony; a 3.5-hour Premier leaves real time for a first look, family formals, and golden-hour portraits. See sample timelines, and send your photographer the day's timing in advance.

The light

• The chapel is fully enclosed and air-conditioned, with white walls and a tall arched window behind the altar — soft, even light for the ceremony and portraits in any weather.
• Every couple has the patio after the ceremony; Premier couples use it for the toast, cake cutting, and dances.
• Late-day ceremonies catch the best outdoor light: the 4 PM Premier runs to 7:30, and the 6 PM Premier (daylight-saving months) runs to 9:30 with sunset in the middle of the celebration — the ideal setup for a Sparkler Send-Off.

Where to shoot

Two outdoor photo areas sit right beside the chapel: one along the side of the building, and a lower area beyond the end of it. Add the patio, the chapel's front doors, and the arched window inside, and your photographer has five spots within a minute's walk of each other.

Seeing the chapel beforehand

Your photographer can scout on a Venue Tour with you, or at your rehearsal if you book one at the chapel. For engagement or bridal photos here, book a Portrait Session. More in Visiting before your wedding. Photos of the chapel to plan from are on chapeltx.com.

Drones

Drones are welcome outdoors only. No drone flies inside the chapel.

A note on usage

Photos and video from your day are yours to share and enjoy. Commercial use of the chapel building's likeness (selling images of the venue itself) needs our written permission first — your photographer's portfolio and social posts are always fine.

Send your photographer our one-page vendor summary: chapeltx.com/guide/photographer.