San Francisco City Hall Wedding: Carla + Chris

One of my favorite parts of a wedding is listening to the vows during the ceremony and the speeches at the reception. So often, you really get a glimpse at who the bride and groom are as individuals and why they love each other.

While civil ceremonies at San Francisco City Hall are absolutely gorgeous, they can be darn quick, and often don’t leave time for personalized vows or speeches. So, I decided it’d be fun to have my clients share in their own words what made them fall in love with each other….right here on my blog! Here’s what Chris and Carla had to say about each other…..be sure to grab a tissue, it’s sure to make you cry!

Chris on Carla:
I think it was after about two or three dates with Carla that I became convinced that she was out of my league. Here was this smart, funny, loving, beautiful, passionate girl, and inexplicably, she kept returning my calls! Our life together has been such a wonderful surprise. We are the first people either of us have ever lived with and it’s felt nothing short of completely natural since the first day. Sure, I’m still at a loss to explain why you would need to put 12 pillows on a bed, when only 4 of them are actually used to sleep on, and she’d be hard-pressed to articulate why any person would need a different bike for every day of the week, but maybe it’s our differences that keep us interesting to each other. I can sincerely say that I treasure every day we’ve spent together. I can confidently say I’ll treasure every day to come.

Carla on Chris:
Our courtship was fast. We met in March at a wine social, became friends on Facebook, saw each other again at the beginning of July and had our first date in mid-July. I was in love by September. We moved in together in February and he proposed in April. From the beginning, every day was wonderful and better than the one before. That hasn’t changed. Every day is better. We each have common crazy interests – running for me, cycling for him. We love to explore – places, things, food and drink. I have a passion for baseball that he only understands by his passion for cycling. I can’t say my life got turned around; it simply became fuller and richer with Chris in it. He makes me smile, he makes me laugh and I love him for a million other little and big things. I am blessed with love and goodness. I am excited to explore the world with Chris. But even if we never leave home, he brings the world to me.

Special thanks goes to my assistant Ryan, who helped out on this wedding. He gets extra bonus points for giving up half his Cliff bar to Carla when she needed a bite to eat. Go team!

San Francisco City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA
http://www.sfgov.org