How to Choose Wedding Guest Shoes for French Château Weddings A beautiful pair of heels might look perfect with your wedding guest dress — until you arrive at a French château and discover that the ceremony is on a lawn, cocktails are served in a gravel courtyard, and dinner is reached by a flight of centuries-old stone steps. French château weddings can involve several very different settings in a single day. One moment you're walking through a formal garden; the next, you'r

A welcome dinner is often the first occasion when everyone comes together during a destination wedding weekend in France. Friends who have never met share a table, relatives catch up, and guests have an opportunity to spend time with the couple before the main celebration. It can also become considerably more complicated than expected. Dinner for 60 people at a restaurant in Provence isn't simply an oversized reservation. The restaurant needs to accommodate the group, serve e

A summer wedding in France sounds like an easy wardrobe assignment until you start looking at the actual day. A formal celebration at a Paris hotel, an outdoor château wedding in the Loire Valley, dinner on a terrace in Provence, and an evening reception on the French Riviera can all happen in summer — but the outfit that works beautifully for one may be frustrating at another. Start with the dress code, then add four pieces of information the invitation may not tell you: Whe

How to turn a destination wedding into a multi-day experience — without discovering after booking that your venue, accommodation, transportation or suppliers cannot support the weekend you planned. A wedding weekend in France often sounds simple on paper: Friday — Welcome Saturday — Wedding Sunday — Brunch But those three lines are not yet a plan. A successful wedding weekend depends on whether the venue can host multiple events, when you actually have access to the property,

Choosing guest accommodation for a destination wedding in France is not simply a matter of finding enough hotel rooms near the venue. Where your guests stay can determine how many shuttle routes you need, whether people need rental cars, where a welcome event should take place, how easily guests can spend their free time, and even whether a venue that initially looked convenient still works for the wedding. For a destination wedding, accommodation is part of the wedding infra