Cap Ferrat is a peninsula of less than four square kilometres between Nice and Monaco. It contains more architectural excellence per hectare than almost anywhere on the French coast. Belle Époque villas surrounded by umbrella pines. Private estates with sea terraces on three sides, the extraordinary Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild at its highest point. For […]

Saint-Tropez has two registers. The one that appears in headlines — the yachts, the Vieux Port, the nightlife — and the one that exists when you step five minutes inland into the old town, the vineyards, the stone villages of the Var. For a wedding, the second Saint-Tropez is more interesting, more photogenic, and more […]

The private villa is the defining wedding format on the Côte d’Azur. It is the architecture that built this coastline — the Belle Époque estates, the Italianate terraces, the gardens that descend in stone steps toward the sea. When a couple takes one of these properties for a weekend, they are not renting a venue. […]