Thank you for visiting our San Francisco Wedding Photography page. We offer our clients affordable packages, but with everything included. Dubnoff Wedding Photography is a San Francisco wedding photographer with over 20 years of experience. Whether you are from the SF area or planning a destination wedding to this beautiful city, we have the perfect package to fit your budget and needs. Please view the slide show above to see a recent wedding in San Francisco. Dubnoff Wedding Photography has photographed over 1,800 Bay Area weddings with many of them being right here in this city.
In addition to the large weddings we photograph locally, we also specialize in City Hall wedding photography. City Hall offers small civil ceremonies, but in this beautiful building. This provides us with even more experience working at some of the best and most beautiful SF locations since we do it on a weekly basis. For more information about our SF City Hall specialty, please go to our San Francisco City Hall page. To see more samples of our work click the Wedding Photography Gallery. After our City Hall weddings we take our brides and grooms to many of the places you see below for additional wedding pictures. So these are not just San Francisco venues, they are also great places for city hall wedding photography after the ceremony.
Where do I start? There are so many great wedding venues in San Francisco, they are too numerous to mention all of them. Suffice it to say that San Francisco is a wonderful place to have your nuptials. Here is a partial list of some of our favorite wedding venues in San Francisco:
Reading the list above of our favorite San Francisco wedding venues reminds me of just how long we have been photographing weddings in this great city. In fact, we have photographed weddings at every single venue above with the exception of the San Francisco Mint. The Mint is such a great and popular venue I wanted to mention it anyway. Having grown up in the Haight Ashbury district of SF I have a unique prospective of what it is like to live and work here. I feel that this angle helps me be even more effective when dealing with the challenges of wedding photography in a big city.
We will definitely know where to take you to help minimize traffic and maximize shooting time. Knowing the lighting at various San Francisco Icons is also quite helpful. For example, some of the best shots of the Golden Gate bridge take place in the late afternoon. However, you have to be coming in from the ocean side to catch that golden light. Baker Beach is one perfect place to do this from close to sunset. As the sun sets, the light on the bridge becomes even more spectacular and warm. If you are on the Bay Side of the Golden Gate bridge in the afternoon, you will get more of silhouette type of look and more muddy colors. Early morning provides perfect light on the bridge from the Bay side so you just need to know what times to be there and the best angles. We try to mention these types of things, especially to our City Hall weddings couples.
The Palace of Fine Arts also varies depending upon when you shoot there. Early morning photography at the Palace in the Marina district can yield incredible results. By the time Noon rolls around the sun does not shine on the building anymore and this does adversely affect the final images in terms of lighting and contrast. As the sun falls behind the Palace of Fine Arts, we see more muddy colors and a grayer looking sky. However, this is a great time to walk around in the back of the Palace and take advantage of the afternoon sun. Hey, it's not always foggy in San Francisco!
The most important that we try to do is keep your wedding photography affordable and within your budget. We will work closely with you to come up with an appropriate package for your needs. There are many options in our packages with some including wedding albums and engagement sessions. If you need to keep your price lower, we suggest that you book us for a package that only has digital images included. This is a vey popular way these days to obtain inexpensive Bay Area Wedding Photography. Check back on our home page to discover more details and to request a price quote.
Definitely one of our favorite weddings ever photographed (pictured above) in San Francisco because we just loved working with the couple so much. This marriage celebration was a very typical Italian wedding in North Beach. The Catholic ceremony was at Saint Peter and Paul's church right off of Washington Square and this was followed by a fun reception with great Italian food in North Beach. The couple has a soft spot for a famous local bar called Gino and Carlo, so we took photos all around the building and in front of the sign. Most of the formal photos of the bride and groom were done in San Francisco's Washington Square park. it can be difficult to get clear shots in this park because of the large amount of tourists and locals present, but we managed to pull it off!
Unless you go somewhere after the church ceremony, Washington Square Park is the best wedding photography option in the local area. There are trees, some bushes and plenty of grass. Of course being in San Francisco provides so many additional options to take your couple for wedding pictures. Nearby North Beach is the Palace of Fine Arts, Crissy Field and the Golden Gate Bridge. So if the newlyweds can set a little extra time aside, a short trip can be made to one of these locations or others! Another option for a North Beach wedding is Russian Hill. Head up to the top of Vallejo street and magnificent views can be seen up there even on a foggy day at times. We love pictures from Russian Hill and the time it takes to get there is well worth it. Parking can be an issue, but we have ways to work around this.
If you live you in the San Francisco Bay Area and are engaged to be married, we suggest you consider San Francisco city hall as a potential wedding venue. For the low price of $1,000 you can reserve a small space on the Mayor's Balcony and the Event's Department will set up a very nice ceremony site for you in this beautiful spot. They will also seal the edges of the space to keep unwanted people out including tourists. Let the City Hall Event's department know how many guests you are inviting to your big day and they will set up the appropriate number of chairs for your family and friends.
We are one of the leading San Francisco city hall wedding photographers and would be happy to help you with the planning and photography of your wedding. Check out SF City Hall Prices here. Many people will have their ceremony at city hall and then have their reception at one of the many great reception venues located in San Francisco. Many of them are listed above for your convenience, but there are so many more. We like suggesting places like Absinthe because they are walking distance away from City Hall. The Bay Area has so many wonderful places to get married, but I really love San Francisco because of its diversity of choices and small town charm. Some of the best places for wedding photography can be found here in the City by the Bay.
Another popular photography option in San Francisco and City Hall in particular is Quinceañera photography. There are many great options for Quince pictures and celebration coverage in the city. Check out the link above to learn more.