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The Chapel The first thing that people notice when coming into our wedding chapel or when visiting our web site is the money hanging on our ceiling. They ask what’s all the money hanging on the ceiling for. We tell them the story of the money. In 2001, just after performing a wedding, the bride asked “when do I get to sign my new married name.” I told her that we just finished signing all the legal paperwork and there is no further paperwork that would bare her new married name. She turned to her ‘now’ husband and asked him for a dollar bill. She then turned to me and asked me for a pen; we have markers now. The new bride proceeded to sign her new married name on the dollar bill. She then handed it back to her husband and asked him to sign his name also. He did as she asked. She gave the bill then to me and said “please hang this on your ceiling”, which is thirteen feet high. It took a little time to figure how to get it up there without pulling out the ladder. With some improvising we did come up with a wonderful method on placing the signed money on the 13 foot high Cyprus beams. Now, as to how we get it up there, that you will find out when you come here to get married. Needless to say, the brand new ‘wife’ was happy as could be to sign her new married name.
The chapel’s ceiling has money from around
the world among other forms of payment methods including; a maxed out credit
card, a money order, a personal check, a direct deposit payroll check that
has no value. We have Saddam Hussein Iraqi money, an Australian bill made
out of plastic, Pesos, Euros, money from Honduras, Guatemala and many other
countries. We have a bill from a part of the old Russia, Kazakhstan, which
is not even allowed out of the country. We even have an authentic shrunken
dollar bill; only in New Orleans! As far as the US bills hanging, we have;
the one dollar, two dollar, five dollar, ten dollar, twenty dollar and one
hundred dollar bill. We now have a fifty dollar bill. Couples come
back often to visit the money they hung and to say hi. It is always nice to
see them again. Oh, by the way, we now have an IOU. And the best part of
it all, everything that was hung, every bill from every country, was sealed
with a kiss. And to this day, no one has asked to have their half of the
dollar taken down. We like to believe that the kiss has stuck them to the
ceiling for ever. That is the true story of the money on the ceiling of the
French Quarter Wedding Chapel. We hope you enjoyed it and remember to bring
your bill with you when coming to get married so you can seal it with a kiss
that will last forever.
in front of the majestic St. Louis Cathedral at Jackson Square at the edge of the Mississippi River at the gates of one of our historic cemeteries <Cemetery ceremonies will not be preformed later than sunset> NEW PHOTOS AND MORE COMING |
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This is a Mural by Rafael,
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