city hall ceremony and la mar waterfront reception, Jessa & Adorante at La Mar Cocina Peruana — City Room

Real Weddings · San Francisco, CA

A City Hall Ceremony, Then a Waterfront La Mar Reception for 50

Jessa & AdoranteJune 2026La Mar Cocina Peruana — City Room · San Francisco

A City Hall ceremony and La Mar waterfront reception put fifty guests across two San Francisco landmarks in June 2026 — vows under the rotunda in the morning, then lunch on the Embarcadero in the afternoon. Jessa and AJ kept it to the two things that mattered to them: the people in the front row and a long, unhurried Peruvian table by the water. The dress code was all-black for the guests, the couple the only ones in white and tux.

The day ran in two halves. First the marble and light of City Hall, both their families walking them down the aisle, a reveal saved for the last second. Then a walk through the city, a drive to Pier 1½, and an afternoon of Peruvian food and dancing with the bay going by outside the windows.

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Morning

A City Hall Ceremony Under the Rotunda

The ceremony was up on one of City Hall's fourth-floor galleries, a long stone hall with an arched ceiling, gilded urns, and tall windows throwing light across the marble. A cellist played from the side. Their officiant, in black, stood at the balustrade, and the fifty guests filled the wood folding chairs in their black formalwear.

AJ came down the aisle with his father and stopped for a long embrace before he took his place — a small break from tradition the couple had both wanted, their parents and sisters walking them both. Jessa walked in with both her parents on either arm. When they were married, the whole group spilled onto the grand marble staircase for portraits, and Jessa and AJ paused on the curved gold-railed steps, her long satin train pooling down behind them. Her bouquet was cream and peach — roses, ranunculus, a pincushion protea, dried grasses.