When the last guests have gone, a couple and an empty château remain. It may be the most underrated moment of the day.
Months go into preparing the ceremony, the dinner, the party. Almost never into what comes after. And yet.
Being alone in a château
The guests stay at the Auberge, a few hundred metres away. The château itself empties. You climb the grand staircase — the very one where the dress was photographed hours earlier — and there is no one left.
The suite
On the first floor, facing due south. From the sitting room the balcony opens onto the park, the fountain, and on clear days the chain of the Pyrenees on the horizon. The bathroom is outsized: a large mirror, a walk-in shower set inside the turret.
"We ended up on the balcony at two in the morning, saying nothing. That is what I remember best."
The morning after
Breakfast wherever you like: in the suite, in the piano room, or outside if the season allows. The guests drift back into the park. Nothing is rushed — the estate is yours for the whole weekend, not for a night.
The suite is reserved for the married couple and included in the private hire. More on the Accommodation page.
