Its time to start planning

We decided to have our wedding in France as we felt its part of our story and it seemed to be calling us. (our story link to follow soon).

I had a dream of a lovely chateau in Provenance and he wanted something in the French Basque area….who would win out? Neither instead we compromised.

The French Basque area are did not really have venues that suited our needs, and on the weekend we went to the Provencal area (the exact date a year in advance), the weather was atrocious!! Whilst at a friend’s château talking about our weather worries, he suggested a lovely hotel down on the coast and told us that even when it’s bad in his area often they get slightly better weather. So we made the hours drive, and discovered our friend was right, in the last 20mins of the drive as we neared the coast the weather totally changed and the sun was shining bright.

The friend’s recommendation was the Hotel Le Baille de Suffren, which is a beautiful 4star hotel in Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer.

We saw this on our last afternoon of our visit and had to race to the airport to catch our flight back to London, but we loved it and planned our next trip back to research the Cote d'Azur area more.