A Fine-Dining Micro Wedding at Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco

A Trolley Across San Francisco

After the ceremony, the party loaded onto a white passenger trolley and rode across San Francisco to the Financial District, the kind of transition that sounds like a logistics problem and turns into the thing everyone remembers, the whole group together, the city going by the windows.

The trolley set them down at Wayfare Tavern, chef Tyler Florence's two-story restaurant near Pine and Battery. Its dining room is built to honor the city's turn-of-the-century Barbary Coast history, a gold-leaf mural, a green serpentine stone bar, tufted leather booths, the kind of room with real character to sit down in.

Dinner at Wayfare Tavern

The reception was the meal. Wayfare Tavern is known for refined American cooking, their fried chicken is close to legendary, and Emily and Ramon had built the day around a real dinner in a restaurant with soul, thirty-three people at the table together.

Sweet C's Cakeshoppe made the cake. The afternoon had the ease of a great long lunch with the people you most wanted in the room, which is a harder thing to pull off than it sounds, and exactly what a fine-dining micro wedding is for.