Celebrations
Weddings
An 18th-century mas in the Alpilles, yours alone for three nights around the day itself.
The venue
One house, its grounds, and no one else on them for the length of your stay.
Le Mas de Chabran is yours alone, one party at a time: no other guests on the grounds, the gardens and the pool for you and yours, and the house for three nights around the day. Your guests arrive the afternoon before, and breakfast the morning after is still your own.
It is a 1738 mas at the foot of the Alpilles, twenty minutes from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, restored by the architect and the interior designer who own it. Forty guests sit down at one long table in the French gardens, or under the vaults of the old oil mill when the evening turns cool. Sixteen sleep in the house; our other houses take the rest of the party, twenty minutes away at most. We hold a handful of weddings a year, in spring and in autumn. You tell us what the day should feel like; we arrange it, and you arrive.
The ceremony
Three places to say it
The chapel
An 18th-century chapel at the bottom of the garden, still consecrated, kept as it was found. Religious ceremonies are held inside; the party waits on the grass.
The fountain
The round basin in the front garden, water lilies on it, heritage roses on either side and the façade of the house behind it all.
Under the plane trees
Chairs on the lawn in the shade of the old plane trees, the whole party outdoors, the Alpilles closing the view.
40
Guests at the table
16
Sleep in the house
3.5 ha
Of walled and gated grounds
1,350 m²
Of house, 8 bedrooms
16 × 6 m
Heated pool, tennis court and chapel
20 min
From Saint-Rémy-de-Provence · Avignon TGV 35 min
What the house handles
The planning is not yours to carry
Only your people
The house, the gardens, the pool and the chapel are yours alone: no other guests on the property, no shared hours.
A visit first
Walk the grounds with the house manager who will run the day, then hold the date. One contact from there to the morning after.
Our team on the day
The household organises the day with you and runs every hour of it, with the stylists and suppliers we know. All we ask is that you trust us.
The ceremony
The civil marriage is signed at the mairie; religious ceremonies in the chapel, blessings at the fountain or on the lawn.
The table
Our chef, or the caterers we work with, cook the welcome dinner, the wedding dinner and the brunch the day after, from a menu written for your day: the potager, the cheese of the hills, the fruit of the market at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Two kitchens, so the service never crosses the party.
Dinner, inside or out
One long table in the French gardens under the stars, or under the stone vaults of the old oil mill if the mistral turns.
Flowers and the table
The florist’s arrangements and the tables, laid with the linen and glass we bring in for forty, or from your own suppliers once we have met them.
Bar and cellar
Wines from the domaines of Les Baux-de-Provence chosen with the house, champagne at the toasts, apéritif at the fountain, the pool bar open into the evening.
Music and suppliers
Musicians, photographers, hair and make-up, a marquee, lighting and cars, all arranged locally and approved by us. Music outdoors until ten; the party continues inside until four.
Three nights, not one
Weddings are taken over three nights, Friday to Monday, so the party can arrive the day before and breakfast the day after. Eight bedrooms sleep sixteen in the house; our other houses take the rest of the party, and when they do, the welcome dinner is held in one of them, so that Le Mas de Chabran is revealed on the day itself.
Enquiries
Tell us the date
Send the date and how many you are, up to forty, and leave the rest with us. We come back with the shape of the day, what the house can hold, what it costs to take it whole, and what is still open in that season.