Whats the color temperature of a church with only candle light?

I just got a call and a possible new client.  They are getting married in July and what's interesting about their wedding is that the church will only be lit by candles.  So, that's a first.  I'm just thinking about things right now and wondering what would the color temperature in Kelvin or ball park?  

Thank you

It will be very warm, and there will be very little light. They are not doing you any favors.

It's also asinine when your guests can't see what's going on. But that's just me.

I would suggest you adopt a B&W policy for that kind of situation. There won't be any color to speak of anyways.

Take a look at the chart below.  You are going to be right around 1000 to 2000K.  Just make sure you are shooting in RAW, that way you can adjust the white balance in post afterwards.  

Perfect and I just heard that I can't use a tripod.  Hmmm, this will get interesting.   

I've only ever done a few pictures by candlelight (with some window light). It was done using higher speed/faster B&W film. I got the person near the candle, up fairly close (within maybe a few feet), with the background dark.

I don't know that I'd want to take on something like this without having done something like this before. I'm wondering if there'd be any way to try something similar, but I can't think of anything other than candlelight services etc. more around the holidays. You'd probably need to be aware of where you can set up to be getting as much light as possible on the subjects. Or if you haven't yet committed to it then, I don't know... it could be challenging if all you'll have is candlelight for the ceremony to be sure you'd be able to get some nice photos.

How can 1000°K be warmer that 5000°K ?

The scale used to measure colour temperature is in Kelvin degrees.
The scale used to appreciate colours tones is artistic, read cultural.

When art was describing colour tones, there were no measuring
scale to use and lord Kelvin was not yet born. In art, warmer tones
are in fact colder than the measured colour temperature.

Photography apps are facing the same problem: "How to set up the
colour temperature slider direction?" Measure (in °K) and apprecia-
tion (in art) are going in different directions.

The dilemma was with a compromise: using the Kelvin scale for precise 
references, the art definition or description of what warmer tones are.

Why does it matter? Shoot in RAW and one click fix the WB in ACR (post).....

ADDENDUM AND CORRECTION

How can 1000°K be warmer than 5000°K ?

The scale used to measure colour temperature — or more precisely
kinetic energy levels — is the Kelvin scale. OTH, the scale used to
appreciate colours tones is artistic, read cultural, at human scale.

When art was describing colour tones, there were no measuring
scales to use and lord Kelvin was not yet born. In art, warmer tones
refer to the human experience associating the "warmer" colours of
fire and the heat radiating from it and blue to cold. So red is artisti-
cally warmer than blue… technically, it is the other way around.

In the visual spectrum, from red to violet, the warmer tones are seen
at the lower part of it and the colder ones like violet at the higher end.



The same visual spectrum is an integrated part of the Kelvin scale and
is a very narrow band in it.

Reds are measured as cold in K temperature in the visible spectrum,
they extend to so called infra red and are felt as hot by the skin. The
higher end — from blue to violet — are warmer on that scale though
artistidally described as cooler.

Photography apps have a problem: "How to set up the WB slider direction?"
Measure (in K) and expression (in art) are going in different directions.

The dilemma was solved with using the Kelvin scale — from left cold to right
warm — for precise references — and the art definition or description of what
​warmer tones are — from cold to warm. Confusing.

Good post