EVENING BEFORE

Come to the estate on the eve of your big day and settle into the château's historical rooms with your guests. The evening could kick off with a tasting session of fine wines in the vaulted 12th-century cellars. Afterwards, why not enjoy a tajine served at dusk in the pavilion with its big pool? Oriental pastries could be followed by some belly dancing…

PRELUDES

Make yourselves at home! Take the time for a relaxing bath, or to add the finishing touches to the floral arrangements and table plan. Spend time with your guests, or getting the bridesmaids and page-boys ready. A hairdresser and make-up artist await the bride in her room, as photographer and video cameraman prepare to capture the moment.

CEREMONY

For some, the church with its mausoleum dedicated to the Princes and Princesses of Condé, standing opposite the château on the edge of the forest. For others, a flower-laden houppa erected in the rose garden. Or why not the meadow? Or the big Buddha beneath his tree…? At the foot of an oak tree several centuries old… Spirituality is then the order of the day.

DRINK & SUPPER

Buffet tables are laid out around the big pool. Music to match the bride and groom floats over the grounds, interspersed with numbers by a jazz-band performing in the dovecot. Later, candle-lit dinner in the Salle des Tentures with its sumptuous trompe-l'oeil of precious fabrics measuring over 500 m2. In the grounds, a thousand torches flicker until dawn.

SPECIAL NIGHT

After supper, everyone steps out into the grounds or onto the front steps for a firework show set to music, or a huge bonfire. The final tableau stars the wedding cake, paraded into the Grande Galerie, and a champagne pyramid that marks the opening of the ball. Music playing in the grounds sends flutters through the surrounding forest. The château is for you alone, exclusively.

DAY AFTER

Nights at the château are delicious in rooms and suites preserved from all modernity. On the following day, breakfast around the big pool, enveloped in fragrances rising up from the gardens. Stroll through the forest or beneath the ramparts. Aperitifs served in the vaulted cellars precede salads, salmon and grilled meats to round off a sequence of life's small pleasures.

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