Why Post Modern? I believe that we have already gone well beyond the concept of Modern Wedding Photography in 2025. In my opinion, the modern wedding photography era started with the emergence of quality digital professional cameras. As a SF City Hall wedding photographer who has spanned both the film and digital eras, I feel…
Category: City Hall
5 Great Ideas for Involving Your Children in Your SF City Hall Wedding
For most people, a San Francisco city hall wedding is a second marriage. This means that there are a large amount of weddings at city hall every week with children involved. If you are a child, seeing your mom or dad marry someone else can be a sensitive situation. Depending upon the circumstances, it can…
Quick City Hall Wedding Reminder
When checking in to San Francisco city hall for your civil ceremony, please remember to bring your current Identification and your marriage license. You will not be allowed to have your civil ceremony that day without these documents. We strongly recommend obtaining your marriage license the day before your city hall ceremony rather than doing…
San Francisco City Hall Comes Back From Pandemic – 2025
I thought I would update this posting because it has been a while since the Pandemic. However, many issues are still relevant today, so I am deleting and adding to make this article current. It has been well over 4 years now since San Francisco City hall reopened for weddings after being closed for the…
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. You can check out this link also with more great ideas for City Hall weddings. In Part 1 of this post, we explored the Grand Staircase, the Mayors Balcony and the 2nd Floor hallway. You can click…
Top Wedding Photographers SF City Hall
I have been photographing San Francisco city hall weddings now for over 14 years with 900 weddings under my belt. During this time I have managed to make friends with many of the other SF City Hall wedding photographers and have tons of respect for them. We often talk to each other while waiting at…
Rain On Your Wedding Day – What Do You Do?
With the rainy season almost here, I thought it was good timing to update this posting. Last year’s rainy season was particularly heavy and so we don’t know how things will go in 2025. Either way it’s good to talk about how we handle rain on your running day from a wedding photography standpoint. Even…
SF City Hall Civil Ceremony – Photography
This was a recent civil ceremony at San Francisco city hall and we thought we would share some wedding photography from this event. We started this photoshoot at city hall, but then finished it at the Legion of Honor with some beautiful architecture photos. This couple had their family and friends with them to watch…
How to Prepare Your Guests for a SF City Hall Wedding
Most of the people reading this are probably wondering why this is even necessary. Why would you need to prepare the wedding guests? How does this help? The reasons are simple… San Francisco city hall weddings are a bit different than a typical wedding. A Civil Ceremony is generally a small affair with around 6…
San Francisco City Hall Wedding Photo Editing
How Much Photo Editing Should you Expect from your City Hall Wedding Photographer? This is probably one of the most common questions I receive from our San Francisco city hall brides and grooms. Usually the question is this: “Do you edit the wedding photos?” However, I think that the question really should be about how…