Palace of the Fine Arts Engagement
I love being able to travel for engagement sessions. If you follow me on instagram and watch my stories you know I was just in San Fransisco for Vanessa and Caleb’s engagement session at Palace of the Fine Arts! Even though it decided to rain on us we still had the best time.
I always love learning about places we’re going to so allow me to fill you in on this place! Following the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was inspired to show the world how it had risen from the ashes. So, in 1910, business and civic leaders convened to discuss making the city the site of the century’s first great world’s fair, a grand exposition to honor the completion of the Panama Canal. In two hours, $4 million was raised and San Francisco beat competitors like New Orleans and Washington, D.C. to host the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Widely considered the most beautiful structure at the exhibition, the Palace of Fine Arts is the work of California architect, Bernard Maybeck. Inspired by a Piranesi engraving that features a Roman ruin reflected in a swimming pool, Maybeck’s masterpiece was the mirror of a ruin that existed, not for its own sake, but to show “the mortality of grandeur and the vanity of human wishes.” Like other features of the fair, the Palace was meant to come down at the close of the fair — and the rest… is history.
I’ve been blessed with the sweetest couples who have the best attitudes. Come rain or shine, nothing is bringing them down and I love that! Enjoy a few of my favorites from their engagement session! xo
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