With the winter season coming and San Francisco City Hall weddings ramping up for the Christmas busy season soon, special events are also back and occurring more frequently than anytime since the Pandemic. We saw a considerable decrease in special events after SF City Hall reopened following the Covid closure, but now enough time has…
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San Francisco City Hall Events Photography
We always talk about how great San Francisco City Hall is for weddings and of course Wedding Photography. There are so many iconic locations to photograph here, most notably the Grand Staircase, Rotunda and Mayor’s Balcony. Wonderful backgrounds for wedding photography with amazing early 1900’s architecture that is called “Beau-Arts”. This style Of architecture is…
Embrace the Crowds at SF City Hall for Wedding Photography
This blog post is going to run counter to everything you have read and heard about San Francisco city hall wedding photography when it comes to crowds. All we ever talk about as city hall wedding photographers at this venue is how to avoid the crowds with the obvious intent to NOT have people in…
Family Affair at San Francisco City Hall Wedding
Deb and Bart on the 4th Floor of city hall in Black and White Another fun wedding today for this SF City Hall couple and their family. Deb and Bart made the most of their visit to San Francisco. The 2 of them made the trip to California all the way from Boise, Idaho just…
Up in the San Francisco City Hall Dome!
I was offered the unique opportunity to go all the way up in the dome at San Francisco City Hall. We were photographing a wedding at city hall and we were up on the 4th floor taking some pictures. Eventually, we started talking to one of the event staff while he was putting away chairs…
Fun Wedding Dress at SF City Hall – Photography
We photographed Cheri and Wesley’s San Francisco City Hall wedding on 10/13 and had never met them prior to the wedding. When I arrived at City Hall, I contacted Cheri so we could meet briefly prior to the wedding. Since I didn’t know what she looked like I asked her where she wanted to…
Quinceanera Photography at SF City Hall
We have been offering Quinceanera photography at San Francisco City Hall for quite a while now and it’s starting to get very popular. We have also added a fairly large gallery of some of our recent Quinceañera photography in this historic building. To learn more about this service you can click this link – Quinceanera…
“2 Men and a Baby” at SF City Hall Wedding
I wanted to update this post from last year because I have some new photos to add to it. I still love this first one (see above) because it is so classic! One of our favorite City Hall Weddings from that year! We photographed the wedding of Steve and John with only 1 guest…… Their…
Camera Equipment for SF City Hall Weddings
For more examples of the discussion below, check out our City Hall wedding website I thought I would share my opinions on the various kinds of professional camera and lighting equipment I like to use for San Francisco city hall wedding photography. These are just my opinions and not meant to be a guide for…
Events are Back at San Francisco City Hall (2025)
After a very long time period with no Special Events at San Francisco city hall, they are now back! We are seeing events occur here more and more, especially this summer (2025). When San Francisco city hall closed due to the Pandemic back in April of 2020, many scheduled Corporate and private events had to…