Wedding Photographers & Videographers at Oak Lodge, Stahlstown

A wedding at Oak Lodge feels like a weekend in the woods. The 800-acre Laurel Highlands property in Stahlstown has a private village of rustic buildings at the top of its winding road, past a working waterwheel, and that village is where your wedding photos and film come together: log walls, reclaimed barn beams, string lights on a covered porch and forest all around. Oak Lodge points couples to galleries from both photographers and videographers who have worked weddings here.

The wedding weekend package gives you the grounds to yourselves from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning. Friday brings check-ins, the ceremony rehearsal and a rehearsal dinner; Saturday is your wedding day, with breakfast, your wedding ceremony, cocktails and the reception party; Sunday is breakfast and farewells. At the center of the village stands the Chapel, built from hand-hewn logs reclaimed from local barns on a foundation of local stone. Mercantile Hall, also made of reclaimed barn wood, has a covered porch and patio, and the log Tally Ho Tavern has a copper fireplace and a back porch overlooking the wooded hillside, so there's no shortage of corners for portraits.

An event coordinator is on hand all weekend, and setup, tables, chairs, ivory linens and dinnerware for every event are included. Weekends run from late March through December, for 85 to 150 adults on Saturday. You and your partner stay two nights in the Eagle's Nest suite, guests get discounted rooms in the bed and breakfast lodging, and breakfast is served in Penn Place each morning. Smaller couples can book an elopement at the Chapel instead, with up to 23 witnesses.

• Fill out the inquiry form for packages and pricing.
• Ask for the property map and walk the village with your photographer and videographer.
• Ask about photo and video guidelines and where the ceremony is held in bad weather.

A little about Oak Lodge

Oak Lodge has been hosting woodland weddings for more than a decade. Its village, called Jimberg, is a faux 18th-century settlement, and some of the Chapel's logs are well over 200 years old. Penn Place, the oldest log building, was moved here from a site near the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg campus.