I’ve never experienced a French wedding, but like everything French, I always imagined it would be full of charm.
A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to travel to France to celebrate the magical union of someone who is as dear as a sister to me.
I did very little research about French weddings before attending the ceremony. Let’s just say I wanted to be taken by surprise.
Of course, the only thing I obsessed about was my dress which I spent months trying to figure out. Funnily enough, I found THE dress the night before my trip while making a quick errand to return something at a store nearby. I thought it was perfect …and I forgot to even worry about if it was too close in color to white.
I arrived in France a few days before the ceremony and spent the days before going to my go-to beauty parlors, my favorite eyebrow technicians and hairstylist!
…And seeing Paris again, strolling through the city I had moved to less than two years ago! I had missed it so much!
The French wedding was not without charming traditions which I learned more about when we took a little picnic midway between our 4 hour trip to Limoges where the ceremony was happening. I learned that there were different kinds of invitations that were sent out where you can select specific parts of the ceremony for guests to attend. For example, one might get an invitation to just the
The best part about not researching details about French weddings or even asking the bride questions
Talk about a fairytale experience!
The sun was just setting as it glistened over the flutes of champagne and delicious food. Guests moved from one circle to the other introducing themselves to new friends and catching up with old ones. I was most often introduced as the guest who came all the way from the United States for the ceremony and each time it gave me pleasure to say I wouldn’t have missed it for the
When it started to get dark, we hurried into a little cottage for dinner where had even more delicious food as well as several toasts from the friends of the bride and groom… but, it wasn’t your traditional speeches for toasts, no there were instead; short plays, recitals, roasts, and slideshows of the happy couple.
Each table was also named after a place the couple had visited and commemorated with a postcard!
I met, mingled, and danced the night away with so many amazing people!
