Wedding Photographers & Videographers at First United Methodist Church Lancaster, Lancaster

A wedding at First United Methodist Church Lancaster takes place in a historic church on the northwest corner of High and Wheeling Streets, in downtown Lancaster. The traditional sanctuary seats up to 540 guests, so a large family wedding fits comfortably, and a room that size gives your photographer and videographer space to work. For wedding photos and film, the pipe organ adds a classic sound to the moment the doors open.

There's a choice of rooms for your wedding ceremony. The sanctuary suits a big wedding, with a pipe organ, a piano, a sound system and projection, which helps your wedding videographer get clean audio of your vows. For something small, the chapel seats up to 30, a lovely size for an intimate ceremony with only your closest family. Off the sanctuary, a parlor can be used for a small reception or a receiving line, and the recently renovated fellowship hall has a kitchen and room for tables.

For a larger wedding reception, the church also runs Crossroads, its ministry center on Fair Avenue on the west side of Lancaster. The main room there seats up to 288 with tables and chairs and has a stage with lighting, a sound system, two wall projectors and a piano, so a slideshow, the toasts and your first dance can all happen in one room. That way your ceremony can be downtown and your reception at a church-run space across town.

• Call the church office to ask about dates and what the church asks of couples.
• Decide early between the sanctuary and the chapel, and whether you'd like the parlor, the fellowship hall or Crossroads for the reception.
• Ask about photo and video guidelines before your wedding day.

A little about First United Methodist Church Lancaster

Methodism came to Lancaster almost a century before the present church went up, and the building on High and Wheeling Streets was begun in 1905. An education wing was added in 1950, and the Crossroads center on Fair Avenue was dedicated in 2007.