Wedding Photographers & Videographers at SS. Cyril & Methodius Church, Fairchance

A wedding at SS. Cyril & Methodius Church takes place on North Morgantown Street in Fairchance, a small town at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains just south of Uniontown in Fayette County. The church you'll walk into has stood here for about a century, and its aisle, altar and the steps out front are where your wedding photos and video come together. Bring your photographer for a look outside too, since the mountain ridge rises close by.

Your wedding ceremony here is a Catholic celebration, with or without Mass. SS. Cyril & Methodius belongs to the Southern Fayette Catholic parishes, which give couples a planning booklet for choosing readings and music. Photographers and videographers check in with the priest before the wedding to review the guidelines, keep to their places once the liturgy begins, and may not fasten cameras or microphones to the church's furnishings. Your videographer will want to plan around that, perhaps with a camera at the back for the long processional. Thirty minutes follow the ceremony for photographs or a receiving line, so plan wedding pictures for the rest of the day too.

The Southern Fayette parishes share their marriage guidelines. Members and former members get married at their home parish, and couples who are not parishioners need permission from their own pastor; ask the parish office in Fairchance how this works. Weddings are scheduled on Saturdays, one per day at 1:00 p.m., and none on Sundays. Marriage preparation through the Diocese of Greensburg is required, with paperwork finished between four months and one month before your wedding day.

• Call the parish office for a Marriage Inquiry Form and reserve your date before booking anything else.
• If you aren't a parishioner, talk first with your own pastor; the parish office can explain the permission needed.
• Your photographer and videographer must contact the parish office a month before the wedding to go over the guidelines.

A little about SS. Cyril & Methodius Church

Slovak families drawn by the coal industry founded the parish in 1910. The cornerstone of the present church was laid on September 12, 1925, and the church was finished in 1926. The parish hall is named St. Helen Hall, after a former mission church in Shoaf.