Wedding Photographers & Videographers at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Marysville

A wedding at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Marysville gives your photographer and videographer room to work inside and out. The parish welcomes wedding photos on the sanctuary steps and in front of the altar before and after the ceremony, and on the parish grounds outside too, so you can have the formal family pictures and a quieter walk outdoors without leaving West Fifth Street. When the music starts, the church's own pipe organ carries the processional, a sound worth having on your wedding video.

The church is for your wedding ceremony, either within a Nuptial Mass, which the parish encourages, or without one. There's a bride's dressing room in the church, so you and your bridesmaids can wait there before walking down the aisle, while the groom waits in the sacristy. The parish has set times for photos before and after the ceremony, and your wedding videographer will want to set cameras in place before the procession ends, so it helps for your photographer and videographer to come to the rehearsal.

For the wedding reception, the parish's Parish Life Center next door is open to rent by parishioners and non-parishioners. The Commons holds up to 520 people with tables, can be split in two with a dividing wall, and comes with a kitchen for caterers, microphones and an event manager. Falvey Hall, beside the church, holds up to 85 and rents on weekday evenings, handy for a rehearsal dinner. An organist and cantor are part of every wedding here, and only live, sacred music is used in the church.

• Call the parish office early; preparation starts about a year before the wedding day.
• Weddings are for registered members, or for couples where one of you practices at another Catholic parish.
• Read the parish's rules for photographers and videographers with your vendors before the day.

A little about Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church

Our Lady of Lourdes began in 1866 as St. Peter's, Marysville's first Catholic church, and took the name Our Lady of Lourdes in 1881. The present church on West Fifth Street was blessed in 1954 and renovated in 2001, and its Steiner pipe organ dates from 1964.