First Congregational Church of Los Angeles Reviews
Reviews
4.7 out of 5 rating
4.7 out of 5 rating
23 Reviews
94% recommend it
Awards
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User1409409 Sent on 10/29/2013Larry was the best Wedding Event On-Site Coordinator the church could have assigned to us. He was truly a God-send!
He provided his creative ideas and suggestions, which made our wedding the most professionally and smoothest run event ever.
His willingness and insight added creativity and beauty to the ceremony and his intuitiveness helped us in our last-minute emergency when we were missing important elements for a special part of our ceremony called "Love Is." Our host pastor could not cease in expressing her gratitude for how helpful he was to her.
We have also received numerous compliments from our guests on how beautiful the church was, but most importantly how professional Larry was with the handling of our event beginning with the wedding rehearsal as well as the day of logistics.
We are eternally grateful to FCCLA and Larry -
User1389938 Sent on 10/21/2013The church is gorgeous! It's just jaw dropping.
The staff was so easy to work with. They are not one of those churches that makes you jump through hoops. They are the type that are used to doing weddings so they are pros. -
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Sherlett A. Sent on 03/23/2012The most beautiful venue I could of every imagined for a Wedding... We Loved it...And to have the reception there too, was a great plus... -
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Janna Sent on 03/29/2010This was the most gorgeous church. Please see the pictures I've uploaded. Nancy, the onsite coordinator, was great to work with and created a smooth and seamless process for us. We were very happy with this choice and we thought it was very good value as well. It is a giant church and I would recommend it if you wanted to go for the dramatic. We didn't come close to filling it, but we chose it because so much of our ceremony revolved around music and it's a great venue for live music. -
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Lisa Sent on 06/07/2010We had our wedding ceremony at this wonderful and historic church Memorial Day weekend May 29, 2010. I've always wanted to get married here as I have a history with this church. I(the bride) graduated from Pilgrim School (the school affiliated with the church). As an alumni , they gave us a discount. I've always loved the beauty of this church. The architecture, the arches, the gardens and of course the organ is phenominal ! It has the largest church organ in the world and I've always loved the sound of it. The center aisle is 150ft long. We had around 375-380 guests and the church seats well over 1000.
The church coordinator Nancy Huddleston is great. She's very knowledgeable and thorough. She answered all my emails and questions promptly. She helped a lot with the selection of music for the ceremony and lots of other things. They even gave us an audio cd of our wedding ceremony.
A few other things... This church is very strict on the music it allows to be sung or played. Also, this church is pretty dark inside so you need a knowledgeable photographer to deal with the lighting or else your pictures will turn out pretty dark (no flash photography is allowed during the ceremony). My photographer was excellent and my pictures were awesome ! -
User1624740 Sent on 05/19/2014Fantastic venue and great service and professionalism by the church staff.
The cost for reserving the main sanctuary is $2500 and for reserving the church basement for the reception is $2300. You should also consider the outdoor forecourt for cocktail hour ($400 for 4 hour use; $150 for security guard for 4 hrs; $300 for sound system). Also, to make the church basement look pretty, you should consider draping, which will be another $2500.
Both Joanne and Larry are great staff for the church, helpful and responsive. -
User1514633 Sent on 01/21/2014We held both our ceremony and reception at FCCLA and wish we hadn't.
1. Johanna never picks up the phone and is often late to respond to calls/emails.
2. I always (and by always I mean 5 out of 5 times I visited) had to wait for her (one time upwards of 20 minutes). I am just as busy as you are and it is just rude to keep your clients waiting.
3. The REAL reason why I would never recommend having your wedding here is because of the part-time coordinator, Larry. I have never worked with someone, especially in the wedding business, who is so down-right rude!
Larry made many rude comments to me and other people involved in the wedding throughout the process and even on the day of. At first I thought this was all in my head and I was being overly sensitive, but my bridal party started mentioning how rude he was! The lighting guy was also very mean (I never caught his name) and seemed hesitant and unwilling to make the sanctuary lighting how I wanted it. He scoffed and made comments out loud so I could hear and it was just a very poor way to treat someone right before the wedding ceremony. Just a lot of unneccessary and added stress because of the negativity of some of their staff members.
The church is beautiful, yes. But for the steep price, all the damn "rules" of the place, and down-right rude staff members, I would NOT recommend this place. Brides, beware! And if/when Johanna tells you that Larry will be there on the day-of, do everything you can to stop that from happening!
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