Your wedding at Capelongue

From £430,000, all-inclusive, for about 120 guests: the estate, 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 beautiful house that asks every couple for a wedding planner. Capelongue privately hires you its estate, its rooms and its kitchen. You then bring together the marquee, the tables, the tableware, the flowers, the music and the photos. With us, all of that is in your price, every choice stays yours, and Capelongue keeps its own rate. You come to get married.

Up to 150 for the party, and 120 sleep on site in the 57 rooms and suites. The others stay in Lourmarin, 15 minutes away, at the house's two other hotels. For a wedding of about thirty, the hotel shapes an offer around your dates.

Tell us your date, we check with Capelongue and reply in writing.

Not during your wedding: the private hire gives you the whole hotel, its gardens, both pools, the spa and the outdoor hot tub, with breakfast served to your people every morning. It is booked as a whole.

Outdoors until 11 pm, then the party carries on indoors until 3 am. And since your people sleep on the estate, bed is only a garden away.

Dinner is served under a marquee in the gardens, so the table is sheltered either way, and after 11 pm the party moves indoors. For the ceremony, we pick a second spot on the estate with the house at your visit. In July, the vows go in the late afternoon, once the heat drops.

In the Pigeonnier, the estate's old dovecote turned bridal suite: three floors to yourselves, a private terrace and the view over Bonnieux, with breakfast brought up to your room. And if you'd rather get ready apart: one of you in the Pigeonnier, the other in another of the estate's suites.

From late June through July, sometimes into early August. The estate has its own lavender field, just below the pool that faces Bonnieux, so those weeks your drinks are served above the flowers.

Yes, and it's often the best moment: in the garden with Bonnieux behind you, or along the 25-metre lap pool in the upper gardens. Your words, your officiant, your people around you.

In France, a civil wedding always takes place at a town hall. Bonnieux 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 in the Capelongue garden.

Yes: Avignon airport is 46 minutes away, Avignon TGV and Aix-en-Provence TGV stations an hour, Marseille airport 1 h 07. The hotel arranges transfers from each of them, and once there, everyone stays on the estate.

Yes: free parking on site, 3 rooms adapted for reduced mobility, family suites and connecting rooms, cots and babysitting on request, and dogs welcome. The whole wedding happens on the estate, nobody needs to drive.

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