San Pedro Wedding

San Pedro is a community within Los Angeles, California. It was annexed in 1909 and a major seaport of the area. The town has grown from being dominated by the fishing industry to become primarily a blue collar working town. The name of the town is often pronounced by residents as San PEE-dro rather than its Spanish pronunciation, San PAY-dro.

The site, at the southern end of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, on the west side of San Pedro Bay, was used by Spanish ships starting in the 1540s.

San Pedro was named after St. Peter of Alexandria, a 4th century bishop in Alexandria, Egypt. His feast day is November 24th, the day on which Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered the bay which would become "San Pedro." (Santa Catalina Island, named after St. Katherine of Sinai, was claimed for Spain the next day, on her feast day, November 25th)