April and Michael posing at SF City Hall I thought it would be fun to do an ongoing series of blog posts regarding some of our favorite past weddings and couples. We have had so many great experiences in our 800 plus San Francisco city hall weddings that it is really hard to focus on…
Top Rated SF City Hall Wedding Pictures for 2023
We thought we would share some of our highest rated City Hall wedding pictures for 2023. We chose these pictures based on social media statistics that we gathered over the past year or so. When compiling these social media stats, we look at things such as “page likes” and social media shares. Obviously, the more…
5 Best Reasons NOT to have your Friends Photograph your City Hall Wedding
Let face it, cell phones take amazing pictures nowadays. In fact, I’ve seen some iPhone pictures that rival the best professional cameras. In addition, consumer cameras are as good as ever and easy for anyone to use. They provide an amateur photographer with the ability to auto focus, exposure correct, and white balance just about…
Ballerina Bride at San Francisco City Hall
We love all of our brides and grooms and always make sure we work hard to get great images of all of them. However, every once in a while we are lucky enough to book a couple that are naturals. This particular couple included a groom who had taken Ball Room dancing lessons and a…
How to Plan Your SF City Hall Wedding
This is a quick and easy step-by-step planning guide for your upcoming San Francisco City Hall Wedding. We receive many questions about what to do and how to prepare for a civil ceremony in this amazing historic building. The obvious first thing to do is choose a wedding date, we would suggest avoiding Fridays…
5 Best Ideas for Your City Hall Wedding in 2023
If you are a San Francisco City Hall Bride-to-Be, you want the perfect wedding. I have been involved in over 800 weddings at City Hall since 2012 and created this guide just for you. We also offer quite bit of advice about city hall weddings on our website. Idea # 1 – Treat your San…
Up in the City Hall Dome!
Toni and I were offered the unique opportunity to go 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. We were talking to one of the event staff while he was putting away chairs and he asked us if…
Professional Wedding Photographers at City Hall
I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that you have rarely heard about one wedding photographer recommending another unless they were personally booked for your wedding date. That is about to change…. SF City Hall Wedding Photography by Michael has been shooting weddings for many years and we have discovered…
San Francisco City Hall Crowd Control Ideas
City Hall Crowd Rules The city hall website specifically states that the maximum number of guests allowed at standard civil ceremonies is 6. The rules go on to explain that if you DO bring more than 6, city hall reserves the right to have the guests removed from the building. The rules also talk about…
Why have your wedding at San Francisco City Hall?
If you are a regular reader of my blog posts or have checked out my San Francisco city hall wedding photography site you probably have seen many reasons listed to have your wedding at San Francisco City Hall. Many other San Francisco wedding websites also discuss some of these factors. I realized, however, that a…