Wedding Photographers & Videographers at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church, Greencastle

A wedding at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Greencastle takes place on about four acres along South Ridge Avenue, in a church the parish built and dedicated in the mid-1960s. It's a modern parish church with room around it, so your photographer can step outside after the wedding ceremony and use the open grounds for wedding photos with your family, without traffic in the background. Inside, the processional and the vows at the altar are where your photographer and videographer will spend most of their time.

Here you can plan a Catholic wedding ceremony in the church. St. Mark shares its priest and staff with St. Luke, its mission church in Mercersburg, and has a parish center next to the church for parish gatherings. The rectory sits beside the church too, so the parish office is close at hand on your wedding day. For your wedding video, ask where a camera can stand during the Mass and whether the church's sound system can feed audio for the vows.

Timing follows the Diocesan Common Policy, which requires couples to contact the pastor nine to twelve months before the proposed wedding date. Call the parish office to set up that first meeting and to check your date against the Mass schedule. The parish livestreams its Masses, so it's used to cameras, but each parish has its own guidelines, so ask.

• Contact the pastor nine to twelve months before your date.
• Ask whether the parish center is available for anything on your wedding day.
• Ask about photo and video guidelines during the Mass.

A little about St. Mark the Evangelist

The parish began with a first Mass on October 6, 1946, held in a bank's community room, and later met in a funeral home and a hotel dining room. The parish bought land on South Ridge Avenue in 1962, and the present church was dedicated on August 18, 1965.