In total Downton Abbey style, live Château life as it was in 1910, with a totally elegant Summer Garden Party, worthy of some of Edouard Manets’ paintings, on the manicured front lawn and in the floral garden
A feast for your eyes, for every photographer, feel like you are in a movie, transported back in time… ladies in white dresses with parasols, enjoying a game of croquet or badminton, gentlemen competing at French boules, champagne poured in crystal glasses carried on silver trays, rugs spread on the grass for relaxed sitting amongst the garden chairs, pressed linen table clothes, footmen and maids in livery, lavish high tea spread of beautifully presented gourmet delicacies and opulently set tables on the manicured terrace of the chateau and in the flower garden below. During the warm afternoons of the late Spring, Summer and early Autumn months, as was the tradition, the gardens open up mid-afternoon until sunset, and should the sun become too strong, guests retire to the cool reception rooms for a short respite. Sometimes, a band comes to play…Requires a minimum of 8 guests. If the weather is inclement, other activities can take the relay, such as a…live Cluedo…