Wedding Photographers & Videographers at St. Andrew Church (Erie), Erie

A wedding at St. Andrew Church brings you to the corner of West 7th and Raspberry Streets in Erie, to a beautiful stone church with a whole parish campus around it. Your photographer and videographer have more than the front steps to work with: between the old parish center and Mary Arundel Hall there's a reflection garden with a statue of Mary, and beside the church stands an Our Lady of Fatima shrine, both quiet spots for wedding photos of the two of you.

Since 2024 St. Andrew has been a secondary church of St. Jude the Apostle Parish, with Sunday Mass still celebrated here at 9:15 a.m. Wedding planning goes through St. Jude, so start with the parish's Marriage Request Form and ask whether ceremonies are scheduled at St. Andrew. The parish asks that music for a church wedding come from classical sources or the hymns in the current missal, which gives your wedding videographer organ and sung music to record during the processional and vows.

Expect a face-to-face meeting with the priest before a date is set, several meetings with the priest or deacon and staff after that, a recently issued baptismal certificate and a marriage preparation program. St. Jude charges no parish fee for weddings; the music ministry sets its own. Before your wedding day, walk the church and the garden with your photographer at the hour of your ceremony. The church hosts the wedding ceremony, and your reception will be at another venue.

• Call St. Jude the Apostle Parish at (814) 833-0927 and ask about weddings at St. Andrew.
• Plan time for pictures in the reflection garden and at the Fatima shrine.
• Ask about photo and video guidelines before the day.

A little about St. Andrew Church

St. Andrew Parish was founded in 1871 by Irish, German and Portuguese Catholics of northwest Erie. After its wooden church burned in 1896, the present stone church at Seventh and Raspberry was completed in 1916.