The legal reality, the regional differences, and the questions to ask before you book — what international couples planning a destination wedding in France actually need to know.

People ask me what a wedding day looks like from my side of the camera. The honest answer: it begins at 7am and ends sometime after midnight, and in between those two points there are perhaps thirty or forty moments of sustained, complete attention — moments where everything else falls away and the only thing […]

At six-thirty in the morning, the gravel in the allée at Château de Caumont is still damp. The stone façade has not yet caught the sun. There is a quality of light at that hour — horizontal, low, slightly amber — that will not return for the rest of the day. I am there before […]