A Restaurant Micro Wedding at Fable. City Hall Ceremony, Then the Mission

Portraits Under the Rotunda

After the vows came family photos and couple portraits around the building — the great beige marble staircase running down toward the entrance, the gilded balustrades, the light coming through the dome. At one point the two of them stood alone at the top of the staircase, dwarfed by the arch above, the whole room to themselves. The four kids among the eighteen guests joined the family groupings alongside the parents.

Then the party set off for the Mission, a short drive across town to Fable, a restaurant known for its covered garden patio — redwood-fenced, dense with palms and ferns, strung with lights and warmed by heaters, taking up most of the house.

A Long Lunch on Fable's Garden Patio, an Intimate SF Dinner Wedding

Guests drifted to the bar while the couple made their way over, then everyone sat down together at one long wood table down the middle of the patio, orange napkins folded at each place and low arrangements of pink and coral garden roses running along it. Jaimee and William raised a champagne toast and spoke to the room themselves, and a few impromptu toasts followed from the people around the table — parents lifting their glasses, the whole patio catching the light through the greenery overhead.

Lunch ran long and unhurried in that leafy back room, the heaters going so the patio held even when the June fog came in. They cut their cake at the table — a single round chiffon-style cake from Whole Cakes, dusted pale with a ring cut through the center and piped rosettes edged in matcha green and orange, the kids pressed up close to the front for it. The morning that started under the City Hall dome finished over one shared table in the Mission, exactly the shape they had wanted.