Mayor's Balcony wedding, Melissa & Tyler at SF City Hall — Mayor's Balcony

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A Mayor's Balcony Wedding for 32 at San Francisco City Hall

Melissa & TylerJune 2026SF City Hall — Mayor's Balcony · San Francisco

Melissa and Tyler's Mayor's Balcony wedding brought thirty-two guests to San Francisco City Hall on a June afternoon in 2026, up on the gallery beneath the great clock and above the grand marble staircase. They kept it clean and classic — white, gold, and ivory, calla lilies running through the whole day, a single violin playing them in.

The morning started on Nob Hill and ended at a long garden table downtown. In between came the vows on the balcony, a walk through the grandest building in the city for portraits, and a dinner where the couple sat in the middle of one long table with guests on either side.

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Morning

Getting Ready on Nob Hill

Hair and makeup ran at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins on Nob Hill — Melissa's dark hair set with a soft, clean face to match the ivory palette she'd chosen. Her gown was off-shoulder ivory lace with sheer long sleeves worked in a floral-lace pattern, worn with a fingertip veil and a delicate gold heart pendant. Tyler got ready at a separate hotel, so the first time they'd see each other would be up on the balcony.

The calla lilies arrived hand-tied — a bridal bouquet of white callas and phalaenopsis orchids with long strands of green amaranthus trailing from the base, plus a matching calla boutonniere for Tyler, in his black suit and black tie, and a smaller bunch for the maid of honor.

Mayor's Balcony wedding, Getting Ready on Nob Hill

Afternoon

Vows on the Mayor's Balcony

They married on the Mayor's Balcony, the second-floor gallery beneath City Hall's great clock that looks down over the rotunda and the grand marble staircase, its gilded scrollwork railing running along the front. Thirty-two guests filled the gold Chiavari chairs, a bridesmaid in sage green stood to the side with her own callas, and a woman officiated the short, warm ceremony Melissa had asked for.

Ilana Thomas played them in on violin — the couple had wanted something modern, a little Bridgerton in feel, Taylor Swift reworked for strings — and it carried up through the marble as Melissa came down the aisle. They held hands through the vows, exchanged rings at the rail, and kissed beneath the sculpted stone while the whole small gallery stood and clapped.