Wedding Photographers & Videographers at Greenville Falls State Scenic River Area, Covington

A 20-foot cascading waterfall and the ruins of an old electric mill set the scene for a wedding at Greenville Falls State Scenic River Area near Covington. Greenville Creek tumbles over the falls beside a natural limestone arch, and those textures of water, stone and old timber make lovely wedding photos and give your videographer movement in every frame.

Your wedding ceremony here is small by design. The Miami County Park District allows up to 30 people, counting the wedding party, and every ceremony needs a wedding permit. The park has a viewing platform over the falls, a picnic area and two parking lots, plus nearly a mile of trail along the river and through the prairie. After the vows, walk the trail with your photographer past the remains of the wooden dam, the mill, the ice house and the turbine towers for portraits with real history behind you.

There is no reception hall here, so plan your wedding reception elsewhere. Alcohol isn't permitted in the parks, amplified music isn't allowed and sound systems need approval, which is worth mentioning to your wedding videographer when you talk about recording the vows. The park doesn't provide chairs; if you bring them, park staff approve where they go during an onsite walkthrough. A permit doesn't close the park, so other visitors may be around on your wedding day.

• Apply for the wedding permit at least three weeks ahead and meet park staff on site two weeks before.
• Your professional photographer and videographer need their own park permit.
• Visit at your ceremony time to see the light on the falls.

A little about Greenville Falls State Scenic River Area

One of the area's first electric companies ran here, and in 1897 the Falls Electric Company was bought and expanded with a bigger water wheel, a dam and lines to nearby farms. The land later belonged to DP&L before the park district bought it with an ODNR Nature Works grant.