Wedding venues in France

• From €10,000 venue fee est.

• From €3,500 venue fee est.

A hotel built in 1999 in the middle of Château Smith Haut Lafitte, a Grand Cru Classé de Graves, twenty minutes south of Bordeaux. The buildings are new but assembled from old material, a lake sits in the middle of them, and the vines start at the door. There are 61 rooms and suites, including the Île aux Oiseaux, a stilted cabin on the water copied from the Bassin d’Arcachon. La Grand’Vigne, the two-Michelin-star restaurant, occupies a former orangery, and La Table du Lavoir is a plainer room built out of old vineyard timber. The spa is the original Vinothérapie one, where grape-based treatments were invented. This is the best-known wedding address in Bordeaux and the vineyard access is genuine, not a backdrop. The hotel does not publish a seated reception capacity, which is the one gap to close early: work out with the events team which room holds your number before you fix a guest list.

• From €5,000 venue fee est.

• Seats 170

• From €2,500 for the whole property, per night est.

• Seats 120

• From €2,250 venue fee est.

Two and a half thousand hectares of the Ortolo valley in southern Corsica, held by one family, with eight kilometres of coastline and almost nothing built on it. Guests stay in around twenty restored shepherds’ houses, bergeries, scattered across the estate, each with its own garden and pool, sleeping anything from two people to sixteen. There is a private sand beach with a restaurant on it, a golf course laid into the maquis, a farm that supplies the kitchens, and no neighbours. A wedding can happen on the beach, in a garden or in one of the event spaces, which run to about 490 square metres and take up to 200 people. What you are buying is isolation on a scale that is hard to find anywhere in Europe. The costs of it are real: the bergeries are spread out and everyone needs a car, the estate quotes privately and prices at the top of the Corsican market, and Figari airport is a 40-minute drive with a thin winter schedule.

• From €3,000 venue fee est.

• From €15,000 for the whole property, per night est.

• 27 rooms

• 15 rooms

• From €90 a head est.

• From €4,000 venue fee est.

• From €4,000 venue fee est.

• From €900 venue fee est.

• From €3,000 venue fee est.

• From €4,000 venue fee est.

• From €2,500 venue fee est.

• Seats 80

• From €6,000 for the whole property, per night est.

Le Domaine Des Cormellas stands apart as a privately-owned French estate that grants couples exclusive use of the entire 8-hectare property, eliminating the typical concern of sharing spaces with other events. This 18th-century manor in Cormeilles-en-Vexin offers manicured gardens, period architecture, and on-site accommodations within a 45-minute drive of Paris. The venue's complete privacy and authentic Vexin setting create a rare opportunity for multi-day celebrations without the commercial feel of larger destination venues.

• 3 rooms