Wedding Photographers & Videographers at St. Matthew Church (Tyrone), Tyrone

A wedding at St. Matthew Church in Tyrone takes place in a stone church on Cameron Avenue, the heart of the parish ever since it was built. For your photographer and videographer, a stone church gives wedding photos a solid, lasting feel, and the pipe organ that still fills the sanctuary with music is a gift for your wedding video. Organ music carries the processional and the recessional, so ask your videographer to plan for the sound as carefully as the picture.

This is a church for your wedding ceremony. The parish's marriage pages describe preparation and the sacrament, and they don't mention a reception hall or bridal room, so plan your reception at a separate venue and ask the parish office whether there's a room where you can wait before you walk down the aisle. St. Matthew also runs a parish school on Cameron Avenue, which is worth keeping in mind when you ask about parking on your wedding day.

Plan ahead. Engaged couples must contact the parish office at least six to eight months before the wedding date, and nine months to a year is ideal. The formal preparation has to be finished no closer than two months before the wedding, and couples also take part in the diocesan Marriage Preparation Program. Saturday Mass is at 5:30 p.m., so ask which times are open for your ceremony, and ask about photo and video guidelines when you meet.

• Call the parish office at 814-684-1480 nine months to a year ahead if you can.
• Finish your preparation at least two months before the wedding.
• Ask whether the organist can play for your ceremony, and where your photographer and videographer may stand.

A little about St. Matthew Church

The parish began in 1853, with a first church on Washington Avenue. Parishioners hauled stones from their own farms to build the present church, which was dedicated on February 9, 1896. A pipe organ given to the parish in 1912 is still played there today.