Castle Wedding Guide

Château de Saint Loup Outside

The Château de Saint-Loup in France has luxurious overnight and weekly accommodations, guided tours and sumptuous entertainment for guests of your large weddings, receptions, seminars and other special occasions.

As a jewel of France’s architectural heritage, the castle is a perfect setting for enchanting vacations, weekend outings, romantic honeymoons, marriages and other events.

The keep and the castle are surrounded by an enchanting water-filled moat.

Weddings, Receptions and Seminars

Weddings, Birthdays and Anniversaries, Receptions and Parties, Seminars and Conferences, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and anything you can dream of can come true at Saint-Loup!

When you plan your special occasion at le Château de Saint-Loup, you can take advantage of all the beautiful and varied areas of the château and gardens. Just imagine you and your guests enjoying the splendor of . . .

The Pavilion and the Esplanade along the canal. . .
For romantic dinners for two, the perfect wedding ceremony, cocktails for friends under the trees.

The Orangery Court. . .
As conceived in the eighteenth century, the cultivation of citrus trees and plants provided the means to create luxury items such as perfumes, liqueurs, essential oils, jams, fruit preserves.

This perfectly restored garden is ideal for greeting your guests at le Château de Saint-Loup, for a vin d’honneur, or the wedding ceremony itself.

The Orangery. . .
200 square meters and acoustically excellent for concerts, recitals, ceremonies, seats 200 guests and accommodates up to 300 guests standing.

The Events Pavilion and the Grounds surrounding the Dovecot . . .
Heated and air-conditioned, the Events Pavilion can seat up to 250 of your guests. The parquet floor is an excellent dance surface.

The Ménagerie. . .
Currently under renovation to provide twenty rooms for overnight accommodations and use during weddings, receptions, festivals and events.

The Château and its Lawns. . .
Cocktails in the sitting room on the second level of the western wing of the 17th-century house, or an evening starting  with cocktails in the sitting room on the first floor followed by dinner in the dining room and music in the library.

The dining room seats up to fifty of your guests. Dinner can also be arranged for up to eighty guests in the music room above.

Château de Saint Loup Wedding

Luxury Accommodations in the 15th-Century Medieval Keep

The Keep at le Château de Saint-Loup has been newly renovated to provide chamber d’hôte (bed and breakfast) accommodations in medieval style complete with antique furnishings and many rooms with four-poster beds.

The medieval period was dominated by the de Dercé family, originally from the Loudun area, one of whose members was responsible for the construction of a fortress.

The Keep is all that remains of this, comprising the fourteenth-century square tower on the right and the adjoining fifteenth-century buildings on the left, which were later remodeled in the nineteenth century in the troubadour style.

The Black Prince imprisoned the French king, Jean le Bon, in the Keep after the battle of Poitiers in 1356. You will see the ring of machicolations that crowns the square tower, and the high wooden cross pieces which supported the hoardings. The entrance to the tower was protected by a portcullis.

Château de Saint Loup Accommodation

La Chambre du Prince Noir

For the ultimate holiday retreat, enjoy the most luxurious suite of the Keep (80 square meters) which is called La Chambre du Prince Noir.

This suite has a king-size velvet-covered bed, his shower and her bath, two 15th-century granite fireplaces, medieval chest and work desk.

La Chambre Jaune

In La Chambre Jaune bask in the warm glow of this delicately golden-toned spacious room with its stained glass windows.

Enjoy the queen-size four-poster bed, dining table, work desk, bathroom and toilet.

La Chambre Médiévale

This is a perfect hide away for friends or family members, complete with twin beds, working fireplace, dining table, stained glass windows and an expansive bathroom with both tub and shower.

La Chambre Gothique

While away the hours in the light of the beautiful stained glass gothic arched windows which line one wall of this large room, with perfect views of the main castle.

Enjoy the luxury of its double-size four-poster bed, work desk, large luxurious bath complete with a working fireplace, separate bathtub and shower.

La Suite du Nid Aigle

Enjoy just one or both of the rooms in La Suite du Nid Aigle. There is one room with twin beds in the Eagle’s Nest’ and the second room has a double bed, sharing one bathroom with a shower.

The Gardens and Orangery

Since the Middle Ages the castle has had an elaborate ornamental potager (vegetable garden). It was enhanced in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the creation of wooded parkland and sumptuous gardens.

The grounds have undergone a complete restoration program for the pleasure of all. The château, park and gardens have been faithfully recreated as they were in the middle of the eighteenth century, based on detailed plans dating from that period.

Château de Saint Loup Gardens

Château de Saint-Loup Contact information / Location

Château de Saint-Loup
79600 Saint-Loup Lamairé,
France

Telephone: 33 (0) 5 49 64 81 73
Fax: 33 (0) 5 49 64 82 06

Email: st-loup@wanadoo.fr
http://www.chateaudesaint-loup.com