PLANNING GUIDES

The most interesting French wedding trends for 2027 are not really about finding the next color, flower or table setting. A larger change is happening: couples are becoming more selective about which wedding traditions, design ideas and experiences deserve their budget, while destination weddings are increasingly being planned around several days rather than a single event. That shift is particularly relevant in France. Once guests are crossing the Atlantic, the venue is rare

Some French wedding venues appear again and again when couples begin planning from abroad. They are heavily photographed, easy to find, and often become the reference point for a particular version of a wedding in France: lavender and pale stone in Provence, formal château gardens, vineyards around Bordeaux, or Mediterranean terraces overlooking the sea. There is nothing wrong with beginning there. The mistake is assuming that the venue you found first is the only place that

From a Palladian villa in the Jura and a former ironworks to a Cistercian abbey and a château overlooking Lake Annecy, these venues reveal a much bigger version of the French destination wedding. Search for a wedding venue in France from the United States, and a familiar group of destinations tends to dominate the results: Paris and its surrounding châteaux, Provence, the French Riviera, the Loire Valley and the vineyards around Bordeaux. There is nothing wrong with choosing

What American couples should know before planning a wedding in France If most of the weddings you have attended have been in the United States, you probably carry an invisible wedding template in your head. The ceremony, cocktail hour, dinner, speeches, cake and dancing tend to follow a sequence that feels familiar enough that you rarely have to question what each part means. Move the wedding to France and many of those elements are still there. You can have bridesmaids and g

“South of France” sounds like a location. For wedding planning, it is closer to a collection of very different destinations. A stone farmhouse in the Luberon, a waterfront villa near Cannes, a wine estate outside Montpellier, and a château in the countryside around Toulouse can all fit someone's idea of a South of France wedding. But they create very different weddings once you consider where guests will fly, how they will reach the venue, where they will stay, what happens i