We have been photographing weddings at San Francisco City Hall now for nearly 12 years and have learned some interesting ideas and helpful hints throughout this time. I thought it would be instructive to share some of these thoughts with our readers to help engaged couples planning on getting married at San Francisco City Hall….
Best SF City Hall Wedding Photography Locations – Part 2
This is part 2 of our blog post about the best San Francisco City Hall wedding photography locations. We have already explored the Grand Staircase, the Mayors Balcony and the 2nd Floor hallway. Here are a few more favorite city hall backgrounds that have developed over the years: 3rd Floor North Windows – City Hall…
Wedding Vows at San Francisco City Hall
Can you Recite Your Own Vows? You have made the decision to have your wedding at San Francisco City Hall and have made the appropriate reservations to secure a date for your Civil Ceremony. You and your future spouse have discussed some of the things you would like to say to each other during the…
Top Wedding Photographers SF City Hall
I have been photographing San Francisco city hall weddings now for over 12 years with 600 weddings under my belt. I have made friends with many of the other SF City Hall wedding photographers and have tons of respect for them. We often talk to each other in the café or at various places around…
Navigating City Hall Guest Limit
We have already discussed the 6 guest limit at San Francisco city hall, but it is worth further mention. To refresh your memory, the County Clerk’s office began to enforce the 6 guest limit effective May, 2019. To read more about this please go to our SF City Hall Website. You might ask, how can…
The Best SF City Hall Wedding Photographers
This is meant to be a technical guide for evaluating and choosing the top San Francisco city hall wedding photographers. Realizing that there are many blog posts and articles about this subject, I wanted to approach it a bit differently. There is quite a bit of great advice regarding this subject and I have reviewed…
San Francisco City Hall Comes Back From Pandemic
It has been almost a year now since San Francisco City hall reopened for weddings after being closed for 15 long months. It took a while for things to get back to normal at this very popular wedding venue, but it seems now they have. When this historic building began to once again welcome engaged…
Best SF City Hall Wedding Photography Locations
Admittedly, SF City Hall offers a bit of an embarrassment of riches because there are so many locations that could be considered the best. The actual purpose of this Blog post is to share my 12 years of San Francisco city hall wedding photography experience to help you understand WHY each of the locations are…
SF City Hall to Enforce 6 Guest Rule
In a somewhat surprising turn of events back in May of 2019, the San Francisco city hall County Clerk’s office had finally decided to begin enforcing the maximum 6 guest rule. I personally spoke with officials at the County Clerk’s office at that time and they understand that this rule may cause some hardship for…
Easy Wedding Photography
What do we mean by “Easy Wedding Photography” and how is it accomplished? Why even try to make it easy? Easy for who? I decided to write this San Francisco city hall blog post in response to a very common concern among engaged couples looking for a wedding photographer. These types of concerns are especially…