Wedding Photographers & Videographers at St. Gregory Thaumaturgus Church, North East

A wedding at St. Gregory Thaumaturgus Church takes you to South Pearl Street in North East, a small borough among the vineyards east of Erie, where the parish has worshiped on the same corner since its first wooden church. Today's church gives your wedding ceremony a traditional setting, with a choir loft for the music and the long walk toward the altar for your processional. Your photographer and videographer will want to see the church at the hour of your ceremony, so plan a visit together before the wedding day.

The church hosts the ceremony, and couples plan the wedding reception at a hall or venue elsewhere in North East or Erie. Most family wedding photos happen inside the church right after you walk out together, so give yourselves time for them, and ask the parish where the wedding party can wait beforehand and how long you'll have the church afterward. The parish has its own parking lot beside the church.

Plans begin with the parish office. St. Gregory's asks couples to contact the priest as soon after the engagement as possible and at least six months before the date, and all couples complete the diocese's Pre-Cana marriage preparation. If you'd like music from the choir loft, mention it to your wedding videographer, who may want a separate recorder for the vows so the organ doesn't drown them out on your film.

• Call the parish office at least six months ahead.
• Plan for Pre-Cana.
• Ask about photo and video guidelines and where cameras may stand.

A little about St. Gregory Thaumaturgus Church

St. Gregory's was founded in 1865 by Irish families, many of them farmers and railroad workers, and its first Mass was offered on Christmas Day, 1867. The present church was built on the same South Pearl Street site and dedicated in November 1925.