SF City Hall Wedding Blog
Your wedding planning guide featuring the Muir Woods area, San Francisco, and Monterey + Carmel, California.
This summer, two high school sweethearts found each other later in life and got married on the beach. We documented their day with cinematic photography and tried to get every detail just right.
Nothing is more romantic for an elopement than the Palace of Fine Arts. The Grecian architecture, surrounded by the most enchanting gardens San Francisco has to offer, makes you feel like you could find Aphrodite hiding beneath the columns. The Bohemian arch centered this gorgeous elopement ceremony while swans dipped in the pond behind.
Earlier in their relationship Chantel had popped the question to Monique. Since they're a perfect match, she said yes. They'd been living in Southern California, and they knew that they wanted to live in San Francisco. When Chantel scored a job at a real estate management company that included a free apartment in this pricey city, they packed their bags along with their giant dog, Big Sur.
Love has a way of finding you in the most unexpected places. Not expecting an office romance, Ryan and Elizabeth met when they worked together at the same company. It wasn’t long before they started dating. They decided to take the big step, and they moved in together just as the pandemic was starting. They picked out their wedding date not knowing if they would be able to have their dream wedding because of the pandemic.
Did you know that you could hire a surprise proposal planner? Asking somebody to marry you is scary enough, so we make it easier for you to put your best foot forward. From a simple setup to luxurious picnics, we create spaces that will set the stage for romance. With our entire lives shared on social media, there's extra pressure to create a proposal experience that will be sweet, heartwarming and that they'll be proud to share with friends and family online. There are many ways to propose. While some are super casual and spur of the moment, based on the overwhelming urge to blurt out "Will you marry me?", others are more akin to a movie script in their attention to detail with moment by moment sequences and steps already mapped out in advance. And for those folks, there's the Proposal Planner.
Their wedding planning took an unexpected twist. It's 2021 so maybe every wedding story you've read recently starts out this way, but to each and every couple, their personal journey is a big deal. Doesn't it seem like you have to prove to some invisible wedding God tribunal that you really, really want and deserve to tie the knot in peace? I see you out there praying for no more guest list reduction, venue changes, and being at the mercy of endlessly changing local rules. Have hope, because another path lies on the other side of the wedding mountain. Extended elopements are the best new wedding trend of the year.
