Editing Weddings At San Francisco City Hall (section)

== Ceremony ==

[[File:Roshan and Julie being married at SF City Hall.webp|thumb|The moment itself]]

The actual ceremony is run by a Deputy Marriage Commissioner, who will be dressed in robes like a judge. Ours was a blonde lady named Ms. Edelman. We had quite a bit of time in the cupola by ourselves until she came up, and we had about 10 minutes after before the next couple. She was quite a cheerful person, and while I don't remember the precise words she said I do recall that they were quite sweet and well-chosen. Unfortunately for her process, I thought she'd finished speaking halfway through her question and quickly said my "I do!" which led to a lot of laughter all around. But it's a pretty standard process:

# Officiant says what's going on and her part
# I say I do
# Julie says she does
# Then we kiss

Afterwards, we have access to quite a bit of city hall and we walked around and took quite a few photographs here and there with the family and our friends. We were allowed 6 guests, though if you want more you can book it as an event and they let a bunch in. I imagine they're not too particular about the total number, though. Things do get done at City Hall so there'll be people walking about anyway, and once the first ceremony gets started it's about time for when the photographers and stuff for the later ones will be present nearby. In any case, our group was the two of us and six of our friends and family.

Once you're up there, it takes about 10 minutes for the officiant to pop up, and then the ceremony happens, and then you've got about 10 minutes of the place to yourself and then you have to make room for the next group of people.