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4worldlovers: Welcome to our San Francisco City Hall Wedding Photography page. We are a small studio that specializes in City Hall weddings since 2011 and offering photojournalistic style photography. City Hall has reopened for weddings on June 9th, 2021 and we have resumed our wedding photography at this magnificent building.

Please review our pricing page. Our main portfolio can be found here, You can also review these portfolio pages: Grand Staircase, Rotunda, architecture, details, feelings, ceremony, emotions. Our customer reviews can be found here.

Not sure, when is the best time of the day to get married at City Hall? Check out this visual guide.

Thank you for visiting our SF City Hall wedding photography page. We are a team of professional San Francisco based wedding photographers who specialize in complex weekend celebrations but have additional weekday availability to cover intimate San Francisco City Hall weddings.

In the article below, I will go over multiple aspects of finding, selecting and working with a wedding photographer. I will cover the pricing aspects of City Hall photography, differences in styles and approach, and much more.

When it comes to choosing a photographer for your City Hall wedding, one phrase is worth repeating thousand times: it’s a lifetime investment - not an expense. If you agree with this concept, finding a right wedding photographer will transform a mere shopping experience into investing into your future. After-all, this is a beginning of your life together as a husband and wife. These beautiful memories deserve to be captured and preserved for years to come.

If you've been looking for a photographer, it is likely that you are overwhelmed by a variety of portfolios. After all, San Francisco City Hall hosts thousands of weddings each year. This means that countless similar looking photos are posted online.

Pricing can be confusing too. Photography services can be as low as $100 or as high as $3000 for just few hours of photography; this vast difference in pricing can be overwhelming. However, if you approach your search carefully, you can find a creative and affordable photographer for your City Hall wedding.

There are plenty of talented wedding photographers in San Francisco. Most of them earn a living from large weekend weddings. While big weddings can provide a stable income, they are much more complex and require a big commitment on the part of the photographer. For example, email communications between photographers and clients can span 12-24 months from the initial booking to the delivery of the final album. Additionally, there are multiple meetings, site visits, and image editing and post-production will often take days.

San Francisco City Hall elopements are very different. Straight forward and practically stress-free for experienced and confident photographers. City Hall elopements allow photographers to feel like real artists rather than paparazzi running around with assistants and shot-lists in hand. As an additional bonus, photographers don't need to be away from their family for more than few hours, production times are much shorter and there is no need to have sales consultations. And photographing inside a temperature controlled City Hall is so much more pleasant than covering an outdoor ceremony in a 100 degree heat.

Naturally, photographers value the simplicity of City Hall weddings and offer lower prices for these events. And this brings me to the main point: a savvy bride (or groom) can find a top-notch photographer at a fraction of the cost as a price difference between a mid-range and high-end photographer shrinks from thousands of dollars towards hundreds, while the quality of the work remains the same.

If you have a reasonable budget and appreciation for creative photography, you should not have any trouble finding a photographer, whose work you will value. However, I don't recommend making pricing your main criteria. Remember you are hiring a photographer who will represent you and possibly your family and friends to future generations.

4worldlovers: You can get a copy of a death certificate record for someone who died in San Francisco more than 3 years ago and after 1906.

Getting married is a 2-step process. You must get a marriage license and have a ceremony to be married.

Make a reservation for an in-person ceremony with 6 or fewer guests. Walk-ins are not allowed.

Get married by a County Clerk commissioner at a San Francisco location of your own choosing.

Tell the City if you want to change your registered trade name, address, or ownership information.

4worldlovers: Planning an intimate SF City Hall wedding? We can help. My City Hall Wedding Team is a group of highly qualified wedding vendors who offer professional make-up and hair, photography, videography, flowers, transportation, livestreaming and more. Inclusive packages from $1899.

My fiancé and I were planning a large wedding with family and friends, but then settled for something a lot more intimate as we didn't have time or desire to plan it on a large scale. In our search for the vendors we found My City Hall Wedding which happened to be perfect for us. They provided a full package that included highly rated professionals – from hair/makeup stylist to photo/video. Instead of communicating with 5 different vendors we worked with 1 single point of contact – Tej from My City Hall Wedding. She guided us through everything we would need on our wedding day – hair, makeup, flowers, limo, photo and video. All in one single package. Tej helped me chose a hair and makeup style as well as flowers. And we completed trusted MCHW with their choice of photographer and videographer – look at their website – the images speak for themselves.

On the day of the wedding everything went smoothly without a single worry. Our stylist was on time and was great. The florist delivered the flowers to our hotel room. The car was waiting for us, the photographer and videographer met us at the entrance of the City Hall and guided us through the whole process. Can't thank Josef (our photographer) for incredible photos. Alex – the videographer – captured very intimate and personal moments.

Can't thank My City Hall Wedding and everyone involved enough. I have heard lots of stressful wedding stories and have been to a few of these myself. That was not our experience.

My name is Tejel and I am a professional wedding planner based in San Francisco Bay Area. I've coordinated hundreds of events from simple business gatherings to major celebrations that involve international flights, thousands of participants, remote conferencing, coordination with dozens of vendors simultaneously working on a tight schedule.This been said, I always loved the simplicity of small elopements and that's why I began coordinating intimate San Francisco City Hall weddings. We've created a group of top wedding professionals that will help you make your special day unique, beautiful and hassle-free..My job is to coordinate logistics, communications, reservations, permits and everything that is required in order for you to enjoy your life prior to your wedding.

Planning a wedding can be a very exciting project. It may be even the first time you and your fiance are spending so much time together planning. It brings you closer and perhaps you learn new things about each other. Isn't it fun? As great as it sounds, there is always another side of the story. A part in which you get tired, frustrated even at the beginning. And it only gets harder. Even if the couples plan their wedding well in advance and have their venues and pastor booked, they still have to find a photo, video, caterer, florist, limo, musicians, bartenders, photo booths and these just vendors. What about materials for decor, accessories, and permits?

A soon as you initiate your communication with EACH of these vendors, you will find that most offer different levels of services, multiple packages that you will have to learn and understand to make a choice. And keep in mind that you are going to compare multiple vendors packages against each other not to mention that you probably will need to do a reputation check and read what others say about them. Sound like a long list? Wait, it gets better…

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