Your wedding at the Abbaye de Sainte-Croix

From £43,000, all-inclusive, for about 100 guests: the venue, the table, the flowers, the music, your photos, and us on site. The exact price depends on your date and your guest count, and you get it in writing within a week.

Once we’ve agreed, no. It only changes if you change the wedding: more or fewer guests, a wish added along the way.

We replace them. They’re our suppliers, under our contract, so the two of you have nothing to search for or renegotiate. You approve the choice, and we take care of the rest.

Yes, if you wish. We can offer optional cancellation insurance dedicated to your wedding, placed with Lloyd’s. It covers cancelling or postponing for reasons beyond your control, including if one of you can’t be there, as set out in the policy terms.

You can, it's a lovely house. The abbey rents you its 25 rooms, its halls and its terraces, and its kitchen cooks for you. You then bring together the flowers, the decor, the music, the photographer, the film and the running of the day. With us, all of that is in your price, every choice stays yours, and the abbey keeps its own rate. You come to get married.

Up to 150 at table on the panoramic terrace, 130 indoors in the Montgallet hall, and 100 for the ceremony in the chapel. Up to 60 of your guests sleep at the abbey, the others in Salon-de-Provence, 5 km away.

The abbey welcomes guests from 7 February to 20 December. Tell us your date, we check with the Abbaye de Sainte-Croix and reply in writing.

No. With the wedding exclusivity, the abbey is privately hired for you: its 25 rooms, its indoor and outdoor spaces and the restaurant are yours and your guests', from 6 pm the evening before until the next day.

Yes, in the Romanesque chapel: up to 100 guests on either side of the aisle, the stone vaults above you, an arch of flowers at the far end. Your words, your officiant, your people around you.

In France, a civil wedding always takes place at a town hall, never at the abbey. Salon-de-Provence town hall can marry you if one of you, or one of your parents, lives there or has lived there for at least a month. Otherwise, the civil wedding happens in your own town, and the ceremony at the abbey.

Yes: Marseille airport is 35 km away, Salon-de-Provence station 5 km and the motorway exit 6 km. The nearest TGV station is Aix-en-Provence. Up to 60 of them sleep at the abbey, and we share the best addresses in Salon for the others.

Up to 60 of them just walk to their room, without ever getting back on the road. The others stay in Salon-de-Provence, 5 km down the hill. We give you the addresses, ready to share with your loved ones.

At the abbey. One of you in a suite with its private terrace over the valley, the other in another room, your people next door and the chapel within the abbey's walls. The abbey's spa also has a treatment room for two, to book at the spa's rates.

Your vows are under cover anyway, in the cool of the Romanesque chapel. In July, afternoons average 30 °C in Salon: drinks once the sun drops, dinner in the evening air. If it rains, the Montgallet hall seats up to 130 at table, and the Bernard hall can become the dance floor.

Yes. The abbey has a room with its own garden adapted for reduced mobility, the parking is free and on site, and dogs are accepted. We walk the paths between the chapel and the terraces with you at the visit, to place everyone well.

A 180° view over the plain of Salon, the Alpilles and the countryside around. On a clear day, the eye reaches the Sainte-Victoire mountain and the Étang de Berre, and at sunset the whole plain turns gold.

Your contract is governed by French law, and also written in English.

Yes, and if you already have a vendor in mind, they're welcome. Your photos are included, with our photographers. If you already have yours, we welcome them into the team and adjust your price. At the table, it's the abbey's own kitchen: everything is cooked on site, the cocktail hour included.