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What is the difference between a wedding chapel and a church? 

A wedding chapel is often purpose built for wedding and holds no ties to any religion.  A wedding chapel may hold religious or non-religious weddings; therefore you may be married by a marriage celebrant in a chapel.  A church on the other hand is built for the purpose of worship and is specific to a particular religion or sect.  You may only be married in a church under the religion or sect of that church.

A wedding chapel is a place, where the social event at which the wedding ceremony is performed other than a legal court, and usually also, other than a church, where couples can get legally married. A church may also be used as a wedding chapel, but churches are usually called that by the marrying couple when the ceremony only involves those contracting matrimony. Calling a place of worship a wedding chapel is an idea that is implied or suggested because it can invoke stereotypes that limit the role of the worship space.