Wedding Photographers & Videographers at Zion Lutheran Church, Indiana

A wedding at Zion Lutheran Church in Indiana has music on its side. The downtown church on South Sixth Street has a mechanical action pipe organ built in London, Ontario, in a case of Pennsylvania red oak, with twenty-four ranks of pipes. Picture your processional with that sound filling the sanctuary, and plan your wedding photos and video around the organ as part of the day.

Zion is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the church doesn't publish wedding guidelines online. If you'd like your wedding ceremony here, call the church office first to ask whether it hosts weddings, who may get married at Zion and what preparation the church asks of couples. The office keeps weekday morning and early afternoon hours. Ask too whether the organist can play for weddings, since a live organ makes a real difference on a wedding film.

On your wedding day, guests can use the small parking lot behind the church, reached by Carpenter Avenue, though most will park on the nearby streets. The building has an elevator to every floor and a handicap entrance from the parking lot on the west side, which helps older relatives. For your videographer, the organ is the thing to plan around: ask where the console sits and where a camera can stand for the walk down the aisle without blocking anyone's view. Your photographer will want to know the same before the ceremony starts.

• Call the church office to ask about weddings and dates.
• Ask whether the organist is available and what music is allowed.
• Ask about photo and video guidelines during the ceremony.

A little about Zion Lutheran Church

Zion's organ was dedicated on the First Sunday of Advent in 1978. The church sits in downtown Indiana beside Graystone Presbyterian, sharing a private alley to the parking areas.