Wedding Photographers & Videographers at St. John the Evangelist Church (Uniontown), Uniontown

A wedding at St. John the Evangelist Church puts you in the oldest Catholic parish in Uniontown, on Jefferson Street downtown. The church has a long center aisle for your processional, stained glass that the parish proudly puts on its anniversary keepsakes, and a pipe organ tradition that goes back to the building's first years. Wedding photos and video here are about the walk down the aisle, the altar and the windows, and the church steps afterward with your wedding party.

Your wedding ceremony here is a Catholic one, with or without a Mass. The parish organist works with you on the music, which gives your videographer a clear sound for the processional and recessional. Photographers and videographers check in at the priest's sacristy before the wedding, stay in place once the liturgy begins, and may not attach cameras or microphones to anything in the church. You have thirty minutes after the ceremony for photographs or a receiving line, so decide ahead which you want.

St. John's follows the marriage guidelines shared by the Southern Fayette Catholic parishes in Uniontown. Members and former members of these parishes get married at their home parish, and couples who are not parishioners need permission from their own pastor; ask the parish office about this first. One wedding is scheduled each Saturday, at 1:00 p.m., and none on Sundays. Every couple completes marriage preparation through the Diocese of Greensburg, and the interviews and paperwork fall between four months and one month before your wedding day.

• Call the parish office for a Marriage Inquiry Form and reserve your date before booking anything else.
• If you aren't a parishioner, talk first with your own pastor; the parish office can explain the permission needed.
• Your photographer and videographer must contact the parish office a month before the wedding to go over the guidelines.
• Leave aisle runners and petals out of your plans; the church doesn't allow them.

A little about St. John the Evangelist Church

The parish was formed in 1852, and the present church on what was then Center Street was dedicated on May 19, 1895, after Irish parishioners helped build it. Its bell was the largest in Fayette County at the time.