San Francisco Bay & San Jose, California

Officiant & Ceremony

In San Francisco Bay & San Jose: Zero officiants are listed in this category. That is an honest result rather than a gap: the crawl found no standalone ceremony businesses in this region that met the annex's criteria, so what appears beneath the heading is a labeled block of congregations, and the work itself is usually absorbed by your planner, your venue's coordinator, or a county clerk. Two things are worth knowing. A California license is good for a ceremony anywhere in the state whatever county issued it, and the counties here charge very differently for the same document, from $79 in San Mateo to $129 in San Francisco. And a public license needs at least one witness, while the confidential license that needs none is open only to a couple already living together as spouses, who sign an affidavit saying so. If you want a friend to marry you, deputizing them for the day costs $60 in San Mateo or Marin and $186 in San Francisco.

0 listings · checked August 2026

Churches and congregations

These are places of worship rather than for-hire officiants. Many will marry members of their own congregation, or couples willing to join and complete a marriage preparation course, and some will not marry non-members at all. Several also price the building, the clergy and the musician separately. Ask early what they require of you — policy varies widely between denominations, and between individual congregations of the same denomination.

• Grace Church of Evergreen — San Jose · gracechurchevergreen.com · (408) 274-1200
• Grace Episcopal Church — Martinez · gracechurchmtz.org · (925) 228-6574
• St Stephen's Catholic Church — San Francisco · saintstephensf.org · (415) 681-2444
• St. Anne's Episcopal Church — Fremont · stanneschurch.org · (510) 490-0553
• St. Augustine Catholic Church — Pleasanton · catholicsofpleasanton.org · (925) 846-4489

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