Colma Wedding

Colma is a small town in San Mateo County, California, at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 1,191 at the 2000 census.

Much of the land of Colma is dedicated to cemetery usage. With 17 cemeteries for the interment of human beings and one for pets, the dead population outnumber the living by tens of thousands to one. This has led to it being called "the city of the silent", and also led to a more humorous motto among some residents: "It's great to be alive in Colma". Due to its precarious position along the San Andreas fault, San Francisco is sometimes called "The city that waits to die", leading to one of Colma's more morbid nicknames: "The city that waits for the city that waits to die to die".