A Three-Location City Hall Day in San Francisco

Under the City Hall Dome, Then Three-Location Portraits at Palace of Fine Arts

Family photos came first, right there under the dome. San Francisco City Hall was finished in 1916, and its copper dome rises 307 feet, forty-two feet taller than the dome of the U.S. Capitol, so the rotunda gives portraits a ceiling most rooms can't match. The marble and the light do most of the work.

Then Yocelin and George drove across town for Palace of Fine Arts portraits, just the two of them and the photographer, while the family made their own way to the reception. The Palace's Roman-style rotunda and the reflecting lagoon beside it carried the day from stone and marble out to open air and water.

First Dance and Cake at the Vault Garden

Everyone gathered back downtown at the Vault Garden, where Yocelin's sister Yarizma announced the couple in. They went straight into their first dance to Tauren Wells' "Known," then raised a champagne toast. Yocelin with a Grenache Rosé, George with a Malbec, each of them holding their own.

The cake came out before the main course, and they cut it together in the middle of the room. It was a small, bright day gathered back into one place after a morning that had crossed the whole city.

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