“San Francisco built Pulgas Water Temple as a monument to the engineering marvel that brought Hetch Hetchy water more than 160 miles across California from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Bay Area…………. On October 28, 1934, the roar of Hetch Hetchy mountain water greeted everyone gathered at Pulgas Water Temple to celebrate its arrival. With vivid memories of the fire that had raged unchecked after the Great Earthquake of 1906, the city rejoiced in its new secure, plentiful supply of high quality drinking water. The frieze above the columns expresses the city’s joyful relief: “I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people.””  Quoted from SF PUC website.

Its a nice place for pretty much everything, including ceremony for a wedding.  If I was getting married, I would get married here except during the summer time (probably not during the hot weather months like on late June, July, or  earlier on September).   Imagine wearing a long coat, a heavy wedding gown  on your wedding day during a sunny summer day.   You get it?  You’d be sweating like a pig.  If you have to marry there during the summer time, then get married early morning (10am) or later in the afternoon (like after 3pm).

Look at a wedding I photographed last year here at Pulgas Water Temple.

Enjoy some of the photos.

Benipayo Photography

San Jose  | Wedding | Photographer | San Francisco

Contact: Michael at michael@benipayo.com

(408) 717-3670 ********** (415) 763-7643

Pulgas Water Temple is located in Redwood City,  just south of San Francisco.

“San Francisco built Pulgas Water Temple as a monument to the engineering marvel that brought Hetch Hetchy water more than 160 miles across California from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Bay Area. The Hetch Hetchy Project had taken 24 years to build through the Great Depression at a cost of $102 million.”  Click on the link to read more about it.

Pulgas Water Temple is not your usual garden but better.   The water temple is made up of a number of fluted columns arranged in a circle, upon which a large stone masonry ring with the words “I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people “ [from Isaiah 43:20] are inscribed. There is a large tree-lined reflecting pool to the east.

The fantastic Bride and Groom were Lovelyn and Paul.  Both lives in Daly City just south of San Francisco.  Their reception was at the Hilton Hotel in the City of Burlingame.   It was a long (ceremony and reception was 3 hours apart)  but a wonderful wedding since it was a 12 hours of wedding photography coverage.

Enjoy the following samples of their wedding.

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Benipayo Photography

San Jose  | Wedding | Photographer | San Francisco

Contact: Michael at michael@benipayo.com

(408) 717-3670 ********** (415) 763-7643