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Maritess and Ross's December City Hall micro wedding brought them to San Francisco City Hall a few days before Christmas in 2025, under the rotunda with the marble catching the winter light. A small group came for it, and the day carried the quiet of the season inside those big stone walls.
The morning was for getting ready. The ceremony followed beneath the dome. Then portraits on the grand staircase, and dinner at a restaurant across town, an evening that stayed close and unhurried.
Hair and makeup came together first, and Maritess's bouquet was waiting, a winter arrangement to carry through the marble halls. The dress went on with her people close by.
A winter SF City Hall wedding runs on its own light. December keeps the building calmer than the warmer months, and the low sun comes through the tall windows in a way that suits the season.
The holiday-season City Hall ceremony took place beneath the rotunda, where the dome opens up overhead and the light falls soft from above. Their officiant led the vows, and a string group from Bay Area All Strings & Brass played as Maritess and Ross stood together in the middle of all that stone.
It was a small gathering, the way they wanted it, their closest people in close, the exchange of rings, and the marble carrying every word.
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“Beneath the dome, a few days before Christmas, the marble carried every word.”
Afterward came portraits on the grand staircase, the curved sweep of marble steps that is the most photographed spot in the building. San Francisco City Hall was finished in 1915, and its dome rises 307.5 feet, taller than the dome on the U.S. Capitol; the staircase itself was drawn from the Opéra Garnier in Paris. Maritess and Ross took their photos along it, family gathering in for a few frames before the group moved on.
For the evening, the group moved to a restaurant across town for dinner, a warm room out of the December air, tables set close. There was a cake to cut, and the kind of long, easy meal that a small wedding makes room for.
It ended the way the day had run all along: quiet, close, and theirs, a few days short of Christmas in the city.