Each month we will try to feature a stand out wedding that occurred at San Francisco City Hall and feature it as our wedding of the month. We will make an effort to show a nice variety of weddings and couples. We are excited to show you this month's featured
event. Their names are Amber and Miguel and they were married in a civil ceremony at SF City Hall, but with a few twists which you will learn about below. Please enjoy this portfolio and then check out our other Galleries throughout this website.
We try to present a broad spectrum of weddings in terms of diversity and theme. This helps you find a wedding that will more closely match your own. Obviously it's not necessarily required that you find a wedding portfolio that is similar to your theme, but it can be kind of fun. We strive to make sure that our couples find the most relevant photography samples on our website. This gives them the more confidence that they are making the correct decision in booking a San Francisco City Hall wedding photographer. The whole goal is to make sure you find a photographer that closely matches your budget, style and theme.
Amber and Miguel extended their San Francisco city hall wedding photography coverage because they wanted to start the event off with a traditional "First Look". We were happy to assist with this and actually set up the whole encounter for the couple in advance. The plan was for Miguel to station himself behind one of City Hall's beautiful columns and wait for his bride to surprise him with his back turned. We then had Amber sneak up on him looking beautiful in her wedding gown. She tapped him on the shoulder and then he turned around to see his beautiful bride. We, of course, captured every moment with our digital cameras. There are other ways to handle First Looks, but this way tends to be fairly popular. To look at other ways to handle your First Look at SF City Hall, please click the highlighted link.
This is a fun and exciting way to begin a SF City Hall wedding and lends itself well to photography. We will also sometimes video tape this for the couple and provide them with an unedited movie clip to go along with their wedding pictures. We try not to intervene too much in this process because we want it to be as natural as possible. The only thing I ask the groom to do is turn towards the camera and not the wall when he looks to see his bride. They usually forget anyway, but it doesn't hurt to try! This just makes sure that we see the groom's reaction in the wedding pictures. We help set this up by asking the bride to provide a friend to accompany us to the location in City Hall where the "first look" will occur. Then it is easy for the friend to go find the bride and bring her back to the location. It works very smoothly. We also offer other alternative techniques to do The First Look. One examples involves a bride with a beautiful long dress to be spinning as the groom turns to look at her. This can be very fun And usually creates a considerable amount of laughter which definitely adds to the candid nature of this type of photo capture!
Amber and Miguel booked our San Francisco City Hall PLUS package which was the appropriate choice given the size of their guest list. The First Look they requested also take a bit of time, which is another good reason to select this package. You can assume about 10 minutes total time to set up and complete the First Look.
We strongly recommend couples book this package when they have friends and relatives attending their wedding. This very popular package allows extra time to do some nice family photos and larger group shots. In addition, it also provides the couple with some nice candid interactive images with them and their guests. When the ceremony is over, there is naturally going to be hugging, laughter and maybe even a few tears. We are ready to capture these special memories for the couple. The other benefit of the City Hall PLUS package is that does give you additional time in the building for the San Francisco City Hall photo tour. If you are planning a First Look, you have to book this package because otherwise there will not be enough time to cover everything on your wedding day.
This couple had a fun idea for a great way to end their SF City Hall wedding event. We lined up their guests on the steps in 2 rows. All of the city hall wedding guests were given bubble wands. As the couple descended down the stairs, everyone blew bubbles and it made for a nice ending photo for their special day. See the photo above to see how this looked. This is a great way to handle this especially in light of SF city hall's rules prohibiting rice or anything else that needs to be cleaned up after. No clean up needed with bubbles, but they still have the desired effect! Just watch out for typical San Francisco windy days and possible slippery steps!