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 City Hall, the marble staircase, the balustrades, the light coming through the dome. Four of the eighteen guests were kids, and they were in every frame alongside the parents and the couple.

Then the party set off for the Mission, a short drive across town to Fable, a restaurant known for its covered garden back patio, all palms and ferns and space heaters, a room that takes 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, and then everyone sat down together at one table on the patio. 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.

Lunch was a long, unhurried meal in the greenery of the back patio. The garden canopy overhead and the space heaters running at the edges meant the patio worked even on a June evening when the fog came in, eighteen people including four kids, all at one communal table, the kind of format where no seat is too far from the action. They cut their cake at the table, the kids pressed up close to the front for it, and the morning that had started under the City Hall dome finished over one shared table in the Mission.