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Real Weddings · San Francisco, CA
A December City Hall Micro Wedding in San Francisco
Maritess & RossDecember 2025San Francisco City Hall · San Francisco
A December City Hall micro wedding is what Maritess and Ross planned in San Francisco, a few days before Christmas in 2025. A small group came for it, and the day carried the quiet of the season — the low winter light, the marble under the dome, the whole thing close and unhurried.
The morning was for getting ready at their hotel, where a grand old staircase gave them their first look. The vows came in the afternoon, beneath City Hall's rotunda. Then portraits, and a dinner across town, a warm room out of the December air.
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Morning
Getting Ready for a Winter SF City Hall Wedding
Maritess got ready in a hotel suite above the city, the skyline out the tall windows and a Venetian glass chandelier overhead. Her gown was strapless ivory satin, gathered and ruched at the waist, and over it she wore a long mantilla veil, the lace edge scalloped in a wide floral border and pinned back to frame her face, with pearl drop earrings and a delicate emerald-green necklace. Her bridesmaids gathered around in mixed jewel tones — navy, mauve, a rose-gold metallic, a deep red — phones up, filming her as she set the veil.
Ross dressed in a black tuxedo with satin lapels, and instead of a plain boutonniere he wore a deep burgundy floral lei draped at his collar, a matching burgundy bloom pinned at the lapel. Her bouquet, when it came, was the boldest thing in the room: wine-red cymbidium orchids and calla lilies, big white phalaenopsis, and long strands of red amaranthus trailing almost to the floor.
Afternoon
A Holiday-Season City Hall Ceremony Under the Dome
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