Santa Clara Wedding

Santa Clara (IPA: [snt kle]) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the grounds of Santa Clara University.

Santa Clara is home to Mission College, and Santa Clara University, the latter being the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of California.

Santa Clara is also home to Paramount's Great America, an amusement park operated by Paramount Parks.

Santa Clara is located in the center of Silicon Valley, and is home to the headquarters of Intel, Applied Materials, Sun Microsystems, NVIDIA, and many other high-tech companies.

As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 102,361.