Wedding Photographers & Videographers at St. Boniface Church (Piqua), Piqua

A wedding at St. Boniface Church in Piqua happens under a steel ceiling of Gothic design, with stained glass windows along the walls and rows of oak pews leading to a large sanctuary. Those windows and that ceiling give your wedding photos color and height, and the long view down the aisle is the place for your photographer and videographer to catch the processional. Outside, the church has a tower with a clock and an electronic chime system on South Downing Street.

The wedding ceremony is celebrated here as a sacrament, and St. Boniface shares its priests and parish office with St. Mary, Piqua's other Catholic church. The parishes ask you to contact the pastor as soon as you are engaged, or expect to be. With very few exceptions, the first appointment needs to be at least six months before the date you have in mind, and you meet with the priest before a wedding can be scheduled. Marriage is normally celebrated in a Catholic church in the parish of one of the two of you.

Below the sanctuary is St. Clare Chapel, used for Eucharistic Adoration, so expect a prayerful, quiet building. On your wedding day, leave a little time after the ceremony for pictures at the altar and on the way out, and let your wedding videographer check where the microphones and music are, so the vows sound clear on your film.

• Contact the parish office at least six months before your date.
• Plan for marriage preparation meetings with the priest.
• Ask the parish about photo and video guidelines before your photographer maps out the day.

A little about St. Boniface Church

Its congregation moved into the present church when it was finished in 1865. Major renovations in 1901 added the large sanctuary, the Gothic steel ceiling and the stained glass, and the outside was stuccoed in 1919, when the front vestibule was added.