Wedding Photographers & Videographers at St. Joseph Church (Uniontown), Uniontown

A wedding at St. Joseph Church sits on a 19-acre hilltop property on Old Walnut Hill Road, just outside downtown Uniontown in South Union Township. The church opens straight off the parking lot with a step-free main entrance, so grandparents and guests in wheelchairs can be dropped right at the door. For wedding photos and video, the open grounds give your photographer room to work outside after the ceremony.

Your wedding ceremony here is a Catholic one, with or without Mass, planned with the booklet the parish gives couples, and the parish organist helps you choose music. Organ music carries well on a wedding video, so ask your videographer to hear the church during your rehearsal. Photographers and videographers report to the priest's sacristy before the wedding, stay put once the liturgy begins, and may not attach cameras or microphones to anything in the church. The church allows thirty minutes after the ceremony for photographs or a receiving line, not both.

Parking is one thing you won't worry about: St. Joseph has 221 spaces on a multi-level lot, 22 of them for guests with special needs, right in front of the parish office. The parish follows the marriage guidelines shared by the Uniontown parishes. 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 first. One wedding is scheduled each Saturday, at 1:00 p.m., and marriage preparation through the Diocese of Greensburg is required 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 St. Joseph Church

St. Joseph began in 1903 as a parish for Polish-speaking families in Uniontown, many of them coal miners. The present church on Old Walnut Hill Road was completed in 1974, and the parish still keeps its Polish heritage while serving families of many backgrounds.