Château Wedding Venues in the Dordogne

Chateau Lacanaud sits beside its own lake on twenty acres of Dordogne vineyards, 5 minutes from Eymet. A lakeside ceremony setting looks out over the water and the surrounding parkland. Ten bedrooms sleep 23, and up to 100 gather by the water for the wedding. From €12,000.

Château de Sainte Croix is an 18th-century Périgord stone château in the Dordogne countryside, 30 minutes from Bergerac airport. Chandeliers, a Petite Chapelle, and a Coach House and Stables sit within ten hectares. From €5,000, a low starting price for the space, it seats up to 150 and sleeps 32 across thirteen bedrooms.

Chateau De Puy Robert is a 19th-century Directoire-style house, 20 minutes by car from Sarlat-la-Canéda. A watchtower pepperbox bedroom, a stone balcony with wrought iron, and an elevator inside the château give it an unusual character for the period. The estate sleeps 120 of the party across ten hectares, an unusually deep count, and seats up to 130. From €6,500.

Chateau de Lacoste sits on a limestone clifftop over the Dordogne valley, an 18th-century house with Loire valley character. A Lourdes grotto, a small chapel, and an infinity pool with a pool house run through three hectares of grounds. Fourteen bedrooms sleep 55, a generous count for the price, and up to 130 sit down to dinner. From €9,500.

Chateau des Vigiers is a 16th-century estate carrying 12th-century elements and a Renaissance hand, around 25 minutes from Bergerac in the Dordogne wine country. Twelve-century arched stone rooms and carved marble fireplaces sit alongside a golf course, a spa, and Michelin-starred dining across 150 hectares. Up to 140 sit down to dinner with sole use of the estate, and sixty-five bedrooms sleep 50 of the party on site. From €20,000.

Chateau la Durantie is a Duke's 1840 residence in the Dordogne, around an hour from Limoges. High ceilings and valuable antiques run through the house, which has been renovated to an exacting standard. It seats 150 for dinner beneath high ceilings, with twenty-one bedrooms sleeping 40 across the five-hectare park. From €18,000.

Château de Chanet is a medieval estate with Renaissance and 18th-century reconstructions, around an hour and twenty minutes from Bergerac. A square tower with machicolations, dry moats, and a terrace open onto valley views. Up to 120 dine within the fortified walls, and eleven bedrooms sleep 22 across fourteen hectares. From €19,350.

Château de la Jarthe carries eight centuries of building from the 12th, 14th, and 15th centuries, 10 minutes from the centre of Périgueux. A Templars' Hall, a Cour d'Honneur, and a Baltard Orangery anchor the estate, with a bar designed by Jacques Garcia. The Baltard Orangery seats up to 390, room for a large celebration, with seventeen bedrooms sleeping 44 across 130 hectares. From €20,000.

Chateau de la Valouze is a 19th-century estate set in thirty-four hectares of lakes and bamboo, around 45 minutes from Bordeaux. Monumental reception-hall ceilings and furnished period rooms run through the house. Twenty-seven bedrooms sleep 44 among the lakes and bamboo, and the reception halls seat up to 150. From €15,800.

Chateau du Raysse has stood above the Dordogne valley since 1155, a medieval château 5 minutes by car from Souillac. A circular medieval tower, exposed wooden beams, and original period features run through the house across just over eight hectares. Seventeen bedrooms sleep 38 within the medieval walls, and the château takes up to 100 for a wedding. From €9,500.

Chateau d'Oche began in the 1400s and was transformed in the 1800s into a neo-Gothic property in the Dordogne. Neo-Gothic towers and turrets, two chapels, and a chequed floor in the Event Suite give it a theatrical character. Up to 160 dine beneath the neo-Gothic turrets, with nineteen bedrooms sleeping 45 across thirteen hectares of parkland. From €12,400.