One wedding a day
A day that never leaves the estate.
Marémont takes a single wedding at a time and gives it the whole house for twenty-eight hours. What follows is the shape most days take — not a package, but the order the rooms tend to fall into.
The shape of the day
- 14:00 The gate opens
The drive is closed to everyone but you. Your suppliers have been on site since ten; by the time you arrive the ceremony lawn is dressed and the house is yours alone.
- 15:30 Ceremony beneath the limes
Two hundred seated on the lawn, at the end of the lime walk planted in 1911. In poor weather the same ceremony moves indoors to the orangerie without anyone re-planning it — the wet-weather layout is agreed at your second visit, not on the morning.
- 16:15 Reception in the stone courtyard
Cobbles, wisteria, and one hundred and forty standing. Trays leave the kitchen through the old service door twelve paces away, which is why the first drink reaches your guests warm from neither the sun nor the wait.
- 19:00 Dinner in the ballroom or the orangerie
Two hundred and twenty seated under the frescoes, or one hundred and twenty under glass with the parterre going dark around you. Both rooms are laid while your guests are in the courtyard; neither is a room you have already sat in that day.
- 22:30 Dancing, and the terrace
The ballroom doors give onto the garden terrace, so the party has somewhere quiet to go without leaving it. Amplified music indoors until 02:00; the terrace stays acoustic after midnight.
- 02:00 Fifteen bedrooms upstairs
No one drives home. Breakfast is laid in the orangerie from nine, and the house is yours until two the following afternoon.
What the day includes
- Exclusive use
- The whole estate, gate to gate, from 10:00 to 14:00 the next day
- Spaces
- All five, in any order you like — no per-room charge
- Bedrooms
- Fifteen, for the wedding party, on both nights
- Furniture
- Chiavari seating for 220, twenty-two round or eight banquet tables, terrace lighting
- On the day
- An estate manager and two house staff, from setup to the last guest
- Planning
- Three site visits, a walked timeline, and the wet-weather plan agreed in writing
- Not included
- Catering, flowers, music, celebrant — yours to choose, ours to let in
Seasons, and what they cost you
The estate hosts between May and early October. June and September are asked for first and go eighteen months ahead; those two months are also the only ones where the lime walk is in full leaf and the parterre is worth the photographs.
May and October are quieter and about a third less. They are also colder after nine in the evening, which is a real thing and not a detail — the orangerie is heated, the courtyard is not, and a late-season reception belongs indoors.
We do not hold provisional dates. A date is yours when the contract is signed, and we will tell you plainly if someone else is asking for it.
Bringing your own people
There is no approved-supplier list you must buy from. Bring the caterer you want; we will send them the kitchen plan, the power schedule and the delivery window, and they will have the run of a full commercial kitchen thirty paces from the ballroom.
Two rules, and only two. Nothing is fixed to the stonework, and amplified sound stops at two. Everything else — the confetti, the horses, the fireworks at eleven — is a conversation, not a refusal.
The practical numbers your suppliers will ask for are on the dossier, and the bedroom plan is under stay.