Vail Interfaith Chapel Wedding Shuttles
The Vail Interfaith Chapel is the only church in Vail Village, at 19 Vail Road, and it has been hosting weddings for more than 50 years. The sanctuary seats 250. Two creekside decks and patios take outdoor ceremonies anywhere from 5 to 100. In peak summer it is booked solid.
What it does not have is a reception. Every chapel wedding has a second address, and that second address is what we are really planning around.
The reception decides the vehicle count, not the chapel
Couples marry here and then go to a village hotel, to Donovan Pavilion in West Vail, to the golf clubhouse in East Vail, or up Vail Mountain. Each of those produces a different job.
- Reception at the Sonnenalp or The Sebastian: both are across the street or a few doors down, so the ceremony to reception leg is on foot. Our work is bringing in anyone not sleeping in the village and taking them home late.
- Reception at Donovan Pavilion or the Vail Golf and Nordic Clubhouse: 250 people leave the chapel in the same five minutes and all need to go the same place. That is a continuous loop with two or three Sprinters, staged on Vail Road before the recessional and running until the sidewalk is clear.
- Reception on Vail Mountain: guests walk or ride to the Gondola One base and the resort handles everything above it.
Tell us which of those it is before anything else. Guest count matters less.
Hotels across the street, hotels across town
Most chapel guests stay in Vail Village and walk. The Four Seasons, the Sonnenalp and The Sebastian are all within a short stroll of the chapel steps. The people who ride are staying in Lionshead, Cascade Village, Avon or Beaver Creek, and in practice that means a Sprinter or two on timed departures rather than a loop. For a 200 person ceremony with 60 guests in Lionshead, two vans leaving the hotel at set times get them to Vail Road with margin.
Beaver Creek guests are about 20 minutes out, Avon about 15. Anyone coming straight from Eagle County Regional is about 40 minutes away, but we would normally take them to their hotel first rather than deliver them to a church in travel clothes.
Drop and go on Vail Road
Vail Road is one of the few drivable streets in the village, which is why the chapel works for vehicles at all. Drivers come off the main roundabout onto Vail Road, pull up at the chapel entrance, unload, and carry on. The chapel does not publish any parking, so nothing of ours waits there between runs. The van circles back out via the roundabout and returns when the next group is ready.
On a summer Saturday the street is also the front door for three hotels, and more than one wedding may be using it. We set pickup windows that do not land on top of another event's arrivals. We ran a few trips to the chapel address in 2025, nothing like the volume we do at the hotels around it, but enough to know how tight the entrance gets.
Winter ceremonies use the same drop. Every vehicle we put on Vail Road is all wheel drive, Sprinter or SUV.
Give us the ceremony time, the reception address and the hotel list, and we will map both legs for you. When you have those three things, request an event quote. The wedding transportation page shows how a two venue day is priced, and the Denver Airport to Vail page covers guests driving up from DEN.
