Venues & locations
estates · vineyards · city halls
We look for rooms that already have a temperature — a farm kitchen, a chapel with bad acoustics and good light, a bistro that knows your name. Then we make them work for a hundred people.
What this actually means
A venue search with us does not begin with a list. It begins with two or three questions about how you like to spend a Saturday: whether you want to be outside, whether you want to sleep where you dance, whether your family travels well. The answers narrow the map faster than any brochure.
We keep a private book of about ninety places across France, Italy and the Alps — half of them are not advertised anywhere. Roughly a third are private houses, farms and vineyards that we have negotiated access to over the years, on the condition that we come with our own team and leave nothing behind.
Every shortlist is visited by us first, at the same hour of day as your ceremony, in the same month if the season allows. We photograph the light, measure the rooms, test the kitchen's power supply, and note the honest problems: the road that floods, the neighbour who objects to music after midnight, the beautiful staircase nobody over seventy should use.
Once a place is chosen, we take over the contract, the licences, the noise and fire regulations, the accommodation plan for your guests, and the logistics of getting everybody there and home again.
Four things we take off your hands
01
Venue search
A curated shortlist of three to five places, each visited by us, with honest notes on light, sound, weather plans and cost of infrastructure.
02
Site design
Plans for ceremony, dinner and dancing — sightlines, flow, wet-weather alternatives, and where the quiet corners will be.
03
Contracts & permissions
Negotiation, licences, noise limits, insurance, marquee and generator specification, and all supplier access schedules.
04
Guest logistics
Accommodation blocks, transport, arrival timings and the small map that goes into every invitation.
From first call to the morning
- one
The brief
Ninety minutes, in person or on a call, about how you want the day to feel and who is coming.
- two
The shortlist
Three to five places within a fortnight, with photographs taken at your hour.
- three
The visits
We travel with you, or we go first and send a film if you cannot.
- four
The hold
We secure the date, negotiate terms and take over every practical thread.
Domaine de Verlaine
Private estate, exclusive use · NormandyEighteenth-century farm with an orchard that seats sixty under trees.
Cascina Rovella
Working vineyard · PiedmontCellar dinners for forty, terrace ceremonies at seven in the evening.
Maison Ferré
Town house & courtyard · Paris, 3eOur quiet answer to a city wedding — twelve rooms, one long table.
Chalet Aubine
Alpine lodge · Haute-SavoieWinter ceremonies with a fire lit from noon.
Théo Marchand
Structures & marquees · LyonBuilds the invisible half: floors, power, heat, shelter.
- Typical lead time
- 9–18 months before the date
- Search radius
- France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain
- Places on file
- ≈ 90, half of them unlisted
- Site visits
- Unlimited within the shortlist
- Included
- Contracts, licences, guest logistics
- Capacity handled
- 8 to 220 guests
“They showed us a farmhouse we had driven past a hundred times and never seen. That was the whole wedding, in the end.”
Shall we take care of this part?
Tell us your date and where you are looking — we take a small number of weddings each year.
