Wedding Photographers & Videographers at First Lutheran Church (Chambersburg), Chambersburg

A wedding at First Lutheran Church in Chambersburg starts at a downtown church on West Washington Street, two blocks south of the square. The sanctuary is upstairs, reached by a stairway from the chapel and narthex entrance or by an elevator, so your photographer and videographer can catch you on the stairs before the processional as well as at the altar. There's also a Rose Garden entrance on the side of the building, a pretty name and a pretty spot to look at for wedding photos on the way in or out.

What you can plan here is a Lutheran wedding ceremony in the sanctuary, with a smaller chapel on the first floor that may suit a very small group. The congregation has a director of church music, so ask about music for your ceremony. For your wedding video, live music always feels more like church than a playlist, and it helps your videographer to know where the musicians sit.

No wedding page is posted online, so call the church office (open Monday through Thursday mornings) to ask about open dates and whether you need to be members. On your wedding day, guests can park in the lot next to the church or across the street in the Southgate Plaza lot, and the building is wheelchair accessible and air conditioned. The parking lot entrance leads to Fellowship Hall and the elevator.

• Call the church office to ask about weddings and dates.
• Ask about the organ and the music director for your ceremony.
• Ask about photo and video guidelines in the sanctuary.

A little about First Lutheran Church

The town's founder and his wife deeded the land for a Lutheran church in 1780, for a small sum and one rose every June forever, and the congregation still pays that rose rent each year. The church was incorporated in 1832 as the English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Chambersburg.