Welcome to our San Francisco Bay Area wedding photographers website with affordable pricing. Mike Dubnoff is a top professional wedding photographer in the Northern California area with over 1,900 marriages covered including our San Francisco City Hall specialty. We offer discount packages and inexpensive prices for engaged couples on a budget. Click Contact Us to check our availability for your Bay Area or SF City Hall wedding. We are happy to discuss your wedding plans and create an affordable photography package to fit your needs for a large weekend wedding or San Francisco city hall civil ceremony.
Our Custom Quote form allows you to state your budget and the type of wedding photography coverage you are looking for. In addition, we are one of the leading San Francisco city hall wedding photographers. SF City Hall weddings can also be a great way to save money on your low-cost marriage. Let us create a reasonably priced custom package for your amazing San Francisco Bay Area Wedding by booking today! We offer the best wedding photography packages for the price anywhere! Plus we have been offering these photography services for over 20 years (14 years at City Hall).
We offer all levels of affordable wedding photography packages to our San Francisco Bay Area engaged couples and have been doing it since 2002. We encourage you to compare our prices and packages to other top SF Bay Area wedding photographers to fully understand what we are offering. From large weekend marriages to smaller San Francisco City Hall Civil ceremonies, we have the photography packages to fit your budget.
We want to hear about your budget requirements so we can provide you with a cheaper price quote that is cost-effective. We do everything possible to create a package that will work for you financially but still provide amazing wedding pictures. Our vast experience in the Northern California area has made us wedding photography experts and we would love to show you how beautiful your photos can be. It is important to make sure you receive everything you deserve for your money! Read further to also see how we help ALL of our San Francisco Bay Area clients with wedding planning at no charge. Whether you are having your marriage at SF City Hall or anywhere in the Bay Area, we can help!
The key difference with Dubnoff Wedding Photography is that we listen to you! We won't waste your time telling you that we are the best SF Bay Area wedding photographer ever. Instead, we focus on YOUR needs and discover the specific requirements for your local event. During your personal photography consultation, we ask what you are looking for in a City Hall or SF Bay Area wedding photographer and then explain how our many years of experience fits in to your desires. Of course, the price is always an important consideration and we will listen to your budget concerns and provide an appropriate package. Another attribute of our photography studio is that we really focus on providing helpful information to our clients about how to plan their San Francisco Bay Area wedding. We will provide you expert advice on all aspects of wedding planning and also photography. This assistance is provided at no charge and you do not need to book our photography service to qualify for help. This free service is only available for Northern California weddings or San Francisco City Hall.
I have always felt that it is important to carefully listen to what prospective clients are looking for in a wedding photographer. If our experience and pricing fits their needs and budget, then we can have a great conversation about how we can help them achieve their photography goals. In fact, the first question I often ask our future couple is: "What are the most important attributes you would love to have in your wedding photographer?" Quite honestly, some engaged couples answer this question by telling us that affordability and price is most important. Others focus more on our wedding photography style and our substantial SF Bay Area experience. The important thing is that we openly communicate to find out what is most important to our brides and grooms and then work together to provide it within their budget. We are here to help you with all of your Wedding Photography needs in the SF Bay Area, SF City Hall, and beyond.
We have a very simple process to book our wedding photography studio to cover your San Francisco Bay Area or SF City Hall marriage. Once you decide to hire us as your wedding photographer, just send us an email or text to let us know that you are ready to book. By that time, we will have already discussed our affordable wedding packages and will prepare an easy to read contract that reflects the type of photography coverage you desire. If you prefer making a phone call, that is fine too! We immediately take all calls that we can get to and rapidly call back the rest.
Our contracts are not full of legal ease and unpronounceable words. Instead, we present our couples with a one-page contract that covers all the important things they need to know about our SF Bay Area wedding photography service. This includes details about the package, pricing and our easy payment plans.
Depending upon the cost of your package, your deposit will range from $350 (City Hall Weddings) to $600 (larger weddings). This deposit can be paid by Zelle, Paypal or Venmo. If you choose Paypal, we will send you a convenient invoice for the amount due. Our contract will spell out all of the appropriate codes to use for each payment method. Once you have signed and sent back the contract with your deposit, you are officially booked! In most cases, the next payment will be due 1 week before the wedding with the remaining balance due 1 week after. We are one of the few SF Bay Area wedding photographers that spread out your payments to make it easier for you to handle them financially. We also offer cash payment options, please email us for details regarding potential cash discounts (all cash payments must be made in person).
Over the years, we have photographed most of the popular wedding venues in the San Francisco Bay Area including San Francisco City Hall multiple times. Northern California cities where we have covered many weddings include San Ramon, Walnut Creek, Concord, Clayton, Antioch, Livermore, Danville, Pleasanton, Fremont, Dublin, Pleasant Hill, Oakland, Berkeley, San Mateo and other parts of the East Bay. In addition, we have photographed multiple weddings in the great city of San Francisco!
These are just a few of the many locations we have photographed extensively throughout the SF Bay Area and East Bay throughout the past 20 years. Our approach to SF Bay Area wedding photography now includes the desire to offer our services at lower prices. If you want a better idea about our inexpensive pricing, please give us your event details when you contact us and let us know how much money you would like to spend on wedding photography. Compare our pricing to other professional wedding photographers and you will be happily surprised. We will custom build an affordable quote for your Northern California marriage. Yes, we will travel down to the South Bay at no additional charge.
If you have read this far, you probably heard us talk quite a bit about our affordable prices and packages for our SF Bay Area wedding photography services. You might also be wondering how we can offer such high quality wedding pictures at discount prices. The answer is simple. We do not push pre-determined and rigid packages on our clients. We understand that every wedding is unique and different. This is why we provide perspective clients with our Quote Request Form. This online request allows you to TELL US what you want in your Northern California wedding photography package and also lets us know your budget constraints. This helps keep our coverage flexible and custom built for your wedding needs. If you are interested in booking us for a San Francisco city hall wedding photography session, you can skip the quote request form and go right to our prices and packages page on the main menu.
We understand that everyone has different financial limits for how much they want to spend on their wedding. Wedding photography should be an appropriate portion of this budget, but the exact percentage is up to you. It has been reported by some wedding experts that around 15% might be an appropriate amount to commit to photography. Letting us know how much you want to spend up front helps us design the perfect photography package for you. Our goal is to provide you with a reasonably priced photography package that helps you comes the closest to what you need for your SF City Hall or Bay Area Wedding.
The ability to customize your wedding coverage is a key factor in keeping your wedding photography low-cost. We do this by allowing our future clients to pick and choose the products that they may or may not want. Why by forced into including items in your package that you dont really need? The best news is that we are a full service SF Bay Area wedding photographer. This means we offer a full array of these products including, wedding albums, engagement sessions, prints and wall mounted portraits. Any of these items can be included in your custom discount package or added on later as an option. This negotiable wedding package structure helps provide our clients exactly what they want at a price they can afford, but also offers them flexibility. I have also included this excellent article on how to save money on your wedding photographer. This article has some great advice and money saving tips related to wedding photography. You do not have to give up quality to receive great value for your money.
We service the East Bay, North Bay and South Bay and will travel throughout Northern California with no extra charge. Even as far away as Sacramento! We have extensive experience in Walnut Creek, Concord, Danville, Martinez and the San Ramon Valley corridor. We love photographing weddings in the Pleasanton and Livermore wine countries. Beautiful grape vineyards are the perfect background for your wedding pictures. We have also covered many weddings in the Napa and Sonoma wine countries. Of course, our San Francisco city hall marriage specialty is included in these many locations throughout the Bay Area.
We are also happy to join you on a wedding venue site visit to share our thoughts and ideas to make your marriage experience perfect. We feel like the best San Francisco Bay Area wedding photographers should not charge for site visits and we never do! If we somehow have not photographed a wedding at your chosen venue, we are happy to check it out in advance. As mentioned, this can be done with the engaged couple or we can go on our own. We offer this service at no additional cost to you. In addition to learning more about your wedding and venue, we also use these visits to provide you with helpful information to assist you. Our couples always tell us that we provided them with great ideas and insights during these visits! We will even meet you at San Francisco city hall if you want to walk around the building with us and tell us your ideas.
We have extensive experience at many SF Bay Area wedding venues, including the Livermore Valley Wine Country. Contra Costa County, Alameda County and San Mateo County are also places we have provided affordable wedding photography over the years. We do not charge for travel to any Northern California wedding venue! This also includes Sacramento and as far south as Santa Cruz. We also will work with you on your destination wedding no matter where that may be. Just let us know your proposed wedding destination and we can work out the pricing and coverage details. Getting married in Italy? We speak some Italian so consider us as your top destination wedding photographer choice for Italian marriages!
To be a highly-rated San Francisco Bay Area wedding photographer means that you are constantly exposed to a very diverse client base. We love the experience we have had with so many different cultures and religions. This experience has allowed us to work with couples from many cultures, including Catholic, Filipino, Greek, Italian, Jewish, and Asian to name a few! Many of these ceremonies require previous knowledge of the customs of each religion or culture in order to make sure important photos are not missed during the ceremony. We can provide you with all this experience and still offer great discounts. Proper camera positioning could be vital in some of these cultural ceremonies to make sure we do not miss an important moment. We are always ready with our cameras no matter what occurs, but it does help to have some prior knowledge of the specific cultural traditions and ceremonies. With the diverse clientele that is present in the San Francisco Bay Area, it is vital to have experience in these areas while keeping the prices reasonable.
One other cultural type of photography we offer is Quinceañeras. Bianca, our stylist and assistant photographer is fluent in Spanish. If you're interested in learning more, please click SF Bay Area Quinceañera Photographer. We are happy to cover the Quince ceremony and reception party as well. Some of the more popular destinations for this type of photography include The Palace of Fine Arts and San Francisco City Hall, but we will also come to your home or local event.
To find about more about what all the fuss is about, click the link to see our top Yelp wedding photography Reviews. We average 5 stars throughout all of our Northern California Yelp reviews. In addition, our Dubnoff Wedding Photography Yelp Page ranks consistently at the top of the site because of our relevant and positive reviews both from our City Hall wedding specialty and everything else!
I wanted to share some general thoughts about photographing weddings in the Northern California area. I have been one of the leading Bay Area wedding photographers for over 20 years and feel that this is a premier region of the country to have your wedding. I say this because the weather here is so beautiful and predictable, but also there are so many amazing places and venues available to a bride and groom. I have only recently made the decision to offer my wedding photography services at lower prices to help serve the community.
If you go through this website, you will find many examples of full Weddings that we photographed at some of these Northern California venues. This also includes weddings that were photographed specifically in the city of San Francisco, but also Concord, Walnut Creek, San Ramon, Berkeley, Oakland, Danville, Pleasanton, Livermore to name a few. In fact, another specialty of ours is Livermore Winery weddings. We have photographed dozens of weddings in the Livermore and Pleasanton wine country area.
As mentioned above, we have considerable experience photographing weddings throughout Northern California. However, when it comes to San Francisco weddings, we are truly experts! We know all of the potential issues with traffic, locations and yes, even the fog. We often warn our recently married couples that heading out to The Golden Gate Bridge on a typical San Francisco foggy day may not result in a good photo of the subject. However, many of our adventuresome couples rightly decide that having the bridge partially covered by fog is just the appropriate thing to represent SF. I could not agree more and always encourage our newlyweds to go for it! To me, foggy photos of the Golden Gate Bridge are a wonderful reminder of 2 of the things that San Francisco is famous for... The Golden Gate Bridge and the Fog. We wil take some wonderful pictures of our bride and groom and it will only add to their memories of their time in San Francisco!
Our economical pricing and packages are designed to allow our clients to customize them to fit their needs and budget. We also offer special discounts including Military, Cash, and Off-Season.
We have a page dedicated to these Wine Country weddings so feel free to click the link above for more information and a list of all of the wineries where we have photographed weddings. You can view some recent weddings by checking out our Gallery Pages from our main menu. Some of our favorite winery venues include Wente Vineyards, Ruby Hill, Garre, Del Valle, Murrieta's Well, and the Palm Event Center. We will take you and your new spouse out into the vineyards for great wedding pictures. Many of these inexpensive winery venues will allow the newlyweds to head out deep into the vineyard around sunset for some amazing photos. Ruby Hill, in particular has some great vineyard locations that look amazing at sunset. We recently photographed a wedding at San Francisco city hall and it was followed by a beautiful reception at Wente Vineyards!
All weddings booked through Dubnoff Wedding Photography will have 2 experienced professional photographers present to serve you and your guests. I always shoot each wedding personally assisted by one of my exceptional photographers. I use the same assistant wedding photographers that have been on our team for many years. In addition, our Stylist and posing expert, Bianca is available for most weddings at no additional charge. I never use outside photography contractors like so many others do. Would you hire a Temp Agency to photograph your Northern California wedding? We never would! Instead we use experienced professional wedding photographers who have worked with us extensively in the past. San Francisco city hall weddings will not always require a second photographer, but we will usually bring Bianca as a stylist to help with this part. We specialize in affordable SF City Hall wedding photography and can be seen working at this historic building at least once per week.
