Shakespeare Garden wedding in the Golden Gate Park,San Francisco by Peter Bruce Photo

By Peter Bruce posted on Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 9:32 PM - (General)

No simple city park, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is larger than New York City's Central Park, filled with lush California green and serves as an expansive, approachable and welcome escape from the traffic(sometimes) and close quarters of urban San Francisco .And this was the location Brian And Jamie picked for there wedding.

Golden Gate Park encompasses more than 1,000 acres of land on the west side of San Francisco and contains a number of features that attract visitors and city-dwellers, grandparents and high schoolers, rollerbladers and benchwarmers alike. Bordered by the Pacific Ocean on its western end and extending 4.5 miles east, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park includes the Japanese Tea Garden, the Strybing Arboretum, the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, the de Young Museum, the AIDS Memorial Grove, Stow Lake and the Academy of Sciences.And Hidden away along a small dirt path, the enchanting Shakespeare Garden, with an arched iron-wrought gate, is the type of homely garden opening that one would to expect to stumble upon in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Shakespeare Garden contains numerous plants that are referenced in Shakespeare's actual writings, and on the back brick wall, quotations and passages from his plays are engraved on stone tablets for visitors to read or to use as a prop for wedding photos. After a nice and funny cerermony all the gusst went of to a great diner and function at boulevard restaurant.