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A CLUBHOUSE CARAVAN keeps guests’ drinks full at MELISSA PERELLO and ROBERT WRIGHT’s wedding.
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Made With Love
Chef Melissa Perello unexpectedly discovered romance at her own San Francisco restaurant, Frances, when she and Robert Wright, director of operations, fell in love as they worked alongside each other. Here, Perello walks us through the couple’s big day. Two years into opening our second restaurant, Octavia, after Robert and I had been engaged for almost three years, we finally found some normalcy
in our lives and decided it was time to start planning our wedding. The Mendocino Coast has always been our getaway whenever we feel like we need to check out of “city life,” so we chose Cuffey’s Cove Ranch, with its acres of meadows and forests, as our location. I grew up camping, and it’s always been something we enjoyed doing together, so I called on Shelter Co., which
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produces glamping-style events. The food was important to us, because it was the perfect opportunity to show all our friends and family just how proud we are of our two restaurants and our teams. The September event date meant we could rely on the Indian summer to hang on to most of the summer produce as the season transitioned. Our friend Erin Cochran—whose Crow and Oak Farm grew a good chunk of