Abbaye de la Bussière is a hotel destination wedding venue in La Bussière-sur-Ouche, France, hosting up to 100 guests (Aisle estimate), where a wedding for 80 guests costs about €41,000 (our estimate), reached from Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), ~2 hours by car.
Abbaye de la Bussière
A 12th-century Cistercian abbey in the Ouche valley, half an hour from both Dijon and Beaune, working as a hotel with twenty rooms and suites.
About Abbaye de la Bussière
A 12th-century Cistercian abbey in the Ouche valley, half an hour from both Dijon and Beaune, working as a hotel with twenty rooms and suites.
The wine cellar is the reason serious Burgundy people stay here, and the setting is the reason couples do: cloister stone, a lake, and a consecrated crypt underneath the building where an intimate ceremony can happen.
Numbers are modest and clearly stated.
The salons hold 50 seated and 60 for a cocktail; the park takes 100 seated and 200 standing in high season.
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Capacity, rooms and facilities
Staying over
- Whole property to yourselves
- Yes
The ceremony
- Outdoor ceremony
- Yes
Money
- A wedding for 80 guests
- About €41,000, rooms extraAisle estimate
- Price
- €15,000 to €30,000 for the whole property, per nightAisle estimate
Getting there
- Nearest airport
- LYS, 120 min by carAisle estimate
The spaces
- Indoors or out
- Both
- Setting
- Countryside, historic, elegantAisle estimate
Venue highlights
- 12th-century Cistercian abbey in the Ouche valley, twenty rooms
- Salons seat 50; the park takes 100 seated and 200 standing in season
- Consecrated crypt below the abbey for an intimate ceremony
- Half an hour from Dijon and from Beaune, in the Côte d’Or
A sample wedding weekend
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- 17:00Tasting in the abbey cellar
- 20:00Dinner in the vaulted dining room
- 10:30Route des Grands Crus down to Beaune and the Hospices
- 16:30Ceremony in the crypt below the abbey
- 18:00Drinks by the lake in the park
- 20:00Dinner in the salons, dancing in the cloister
Costs and booking details
- Getting there
- LYS · about 2 h by carAisle estimate
Guests fly into Lyon Saint-Exupéry.
Questions about the venue
How many guests can Abbaye de la Bussière host?+
The salons seat 50 and hold 60 for a cocktail. In high season the park takes 100 seated and 200 for a standing reception. Outside the summer months the indoor numbers are the ceiling, so the season shapes the guest list here.
Where does the ceremony happen?+
Couples use the consecrated crypt below the abbey for an intimate ceremony, or the park in summer. The legal marriage still takes place at a mairie, as it does everywhere in France, so the abbey ceremony is religious or symbolic.
Can wedding guests stay at the abbey?+
Twenty rooms and suites sleep roughly 40 people on site. Everyone else stays in Beaune, half an hour away, which has the widest choice in the Côte d’Or, or in Dijon, a similar distance in the other direction.
What does a wedding here cost?+
The abbey quotes by proposal and publishes no rate card. Burgundy prices below Provence and the Riviera, and a full take of twenty rooms is the main line in the budget. Everything on this page is estimated rather than quoted.
What can guests do in Burgundy over the weekend?+
Nuits-Saint-Georges is twenty minutes away and the Route des Grands Crus runs from there down to Beaune, with the Hospices and its Saturday market at the end. Book domaine tastings well ahead; the good ones are small and fill early.
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Sources and booking notes
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Sources for individual venue facts
Whole property to yourselves: Yes
“Experience far more than a wedding: privatize a historic abbey and share an immersive, elegant and timeless celebration with your loved ones in the heart of Burgundy.”
Read the source for whole property to yourselvesOutdoor ceremony: Yes
“The Abbey offers a variety of settings to imagine a wedding entirely your own: outdoor ceremonies, refined dinners, garden cocktails or receptions within historic salons.”
Read the source for outdoor ceremonyIndoors or out: Both
“The Abbey offers a variety of settings to imagine a wedding entirely your own: outdoor ceremonies, refined dinners, garden cocktails or receptions within historic salons.”
Read the source for indoors or out