Wedding Photographers & Videographers at St. Therese Church (Uniontown), Uniontown

A wedding at St. Therese Church in Uniontown happens in a fan-shaped church on Mill Street, built of beige brick and gray stone with a white stone face. Because the pews spread out around the altar instead of running down one long nave, your guests sit close to you, and your photographer and videographer can catch faces in the pews along with the two of you at the front. Outside, that white stone front makes a clean, bright background for wedding pictures of your bridal party.

Your wedding ceremony at St. Therese is a Catholic liturgy you help plan with the parish booklet, choosing readings and music with the parish organist. Live organ music gives your film a warm sound for the processional, and the wide shape of the church gives a camera a good view of the altar. Photographers and videographers check in at the priest's sacristy before the wedding, stay in one 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 plan the rest of your pictures for later in the wedding day.

Like the other Uniontown parishes, St. Therese follows shared marriage guidelines. Members and former members get married at their home parish, and couples who are not parishioners need permission from their own pastor; the parish office can explain the steps. The parishes schedule one wedding each Saturday, at 1:00 p.m., and none on Sundays. Marriage preparation through the Diocese of Greensburg is required, with interviews and paperwork done between four months and one month ahead.

• 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.

A little about St. Therese Church

St. Therese, Little Flower of Jesus Parish was founded in 1927 by Italian immigrants in Uniontown. The present church was dedicated on April 30, 1967, and the parish today serves more than 1,600 families.