garden-venue wedding at The Vault Garden, SF, Angelica & Forrest at The Vault Garden (Alcove)

Real Weddings · San Francisco, CA

A City Hall Ceremony and an Industrial-Garden Reception in SoMa

Angelica & ForrestApril 2026The Vault Garden (Alcove) · San Francisco

A garden-venue wedding at The Vault Garden, SF was the second half of Angelica and Forrest's day — thirty guests across a single spring afternoon in April 2026, a morning ceremony under the City Hall rotunda first, then a seated lunch in the SoMa garden to close it out. They kept the whole thing clean and black-and-white, right down to the skyline name cards on the tables.

Hair and makeup ran at the hotel, then a first look in the City Hall marble, vows under the dome, a cable car stop for photos, and finally across town to the garden for lunch, toasts, and cake.

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Morning

Getting Ready Downtown

Angelica got ready in a hotel room panelled in deep navy, a tufted headboard behind her and her bridesmaids around her in wine-red dresses, one wearing a wide gold cuff. The dress was the standout: a corset bodice with visible boning and a sheer panel, scattered with three-dimensional white floral appliqué, over a full tulle skirt. She wore her hair in a high half-up bun with soft pieces left loose, a diamond tennis necklace and a matching bracelet, and later slid on nude block heels while a small tattoo showed at her shoulder and the girls fastened her in.

Her flowers were lily of the valley, small and white, in keeping with the no-palette look she had wanted from the start. She and Forrest got ready apart and saved the first look for City Hall.

garden-venue wedding at The Vault Garden, SF, Getting Ready Downtown

Late morning

Vows Under the City Hall Rotunda

They did the first look in the building's marble corridors. Forrest waited between the stone columns and brass wall sconces while Angelica came up behind him, and when he turned, both of them lit up and laughed, alone in a hallway of pale marble and herringbone floor. She pinned his white-rose boutonnière on right there.

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