California
Private event photography · San Francisco
In short
Private event photography in San Francisco starts at $600: 3 hours on location with a photographer who works in San Francisco, and 120 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 5 business days.
Why choose Private event photography in San Francisco?
Private event photography in San Francisco is three hours of candid coverage plus group portraits, priced from $600 for 120 or more retouched photographs of a birthday, an anniversary, a retirement or a family celebration. San Francisco private parties are often small and held in places that close to the public for the evening, such as a garden, a gallery or a restaurant back room. That changes the photography: the light falls as the event goes on, the guest list is short enough that everyone should appear, and the setting itself is part of why the host chose it, so it is photographed before the first guest arrives.
Worth knowing about San Francisco
The one private-event space inside the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park is the Pagoda Plaza, which Golden Gate Park Gardens rents for after-hours ceremonies and standing cocktail parties of up to 50 people. The event is booked through Golden Gate Park Gardens’ own request form. A 50-guest after-hours party fits comfortably inside three hours of coverage: the empty plaza before guests arrive, arrivals in the last daylight, and the group portrait in front of the pagoda before dark.
What does the session in San Francisco look like?
- Pagoda Plaza, Japanese Tea Garden
- The historic pagoda behind a standing cocktail party of up to 50 guests, after the garden closes to the public.
- A restaurant private dining room
- Toasts, a long table and the kitchen sending out courses, for a birthday or an anniversary dinner of a dozen or two guests.
- Your home or a rooftop
- A house party on a San Francisco hill, with the city lights behind the group portrait after dark.
What does private event photography in San Francisco include?
- 120+ retouched photographs
- Three hours of coverage
- Candid coverage plus group portraits
- Private online gallery within 5 business days
- Print release for personal use
FAQ — Private event photography in San Francisco
How many guests can a private party at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco have?
Up to 50. Golden Gate Park Gardens rents the Pagoda Plaza, the only private-event space inside the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, for after-hours ceremonies and standing cocktail parties of that size, so a full three-hour event photography package covers every guest.
How are group photos handled at a San Francisco private party?
Early, while everyone is still there and the light is still good. At a San Francisco evening party the big group frame is taken within the first hour, smaller family and friend groups follow, and the remaining time of the three-hour booking goes to candids, toasts and the room.