Pepperdine University Chapel

Attended a wedding in the chapel at Pepperdine, you can’t beat the location: up on a high hill in Malibu, the ocean looking huge and blue in the background, the chapel is sort of spirited away to the side of campus, and has it’s own 20 – 30 car parking lot, so you don’t feel like you’re on a college campus while you’re there. You can hire an organist to play the wedding march. I never actually saw the organ (it’s upstairs) but I definitely heard it as a precursor to the ceremony.
The stained glass is lovely but hard to get a picture inside– either you focus on the glass itself and lose the subjects in the foreground to darkness, or you get the subjects but lose the stained glass. However, if I were shooting on my homie’s Sony a7r I might not have these troubles… so if you have a solid camera test my theory!
A/​C apparently exists but none of the guests nor I could tell. It’s obviously not too bad since we’re in naturally-​breezy Malibu, but the bride in that dress, the groomsmen in 3-​piece tuxes, I know they would’ve preferred A/​C.
All in all a beautiful chapel for about 100 guests, and I know the bride got some special pictures on the hill with the ocean in the distance.

Breathtaking ocean views outside and amazing ceiling to floor-​length stained glass windows inside. There are many areas for photo ops inside and out! There is well appointed parking for your event and they also provide a ‘staff’ member (college student who just stands there). This chapel looks over the cliff out to the Pacific Ocean, it is a very peaceful place to have an event. They have you change in a classroom which is a distance to the Chapel, you can drive back and forth. That classroom and a large public restroom is what they call the ‘dressing room’ for the chapel. There is also a nice fountain in front of the chapel which also makes for a nice photo op. This chapel and campus is a wonder place to visit or have an event.