Loire Valley
Château de Jalesnes
Vernantes, near Saumur, Maine-et-Loire
A restored Renaissance château with a historic chapel and English-speaking planners for international weekend weddings.
Château de Jalesnes is an early-1600s Renaissance château in the Garden of Kings, between Saumur and Tours, set within 22 acres of formal gardens and woodland. It has been restored as an English-language exclusive-use venue, with one- to three-bedroom suites, a grand salon, a historic chapel, a banquet hall and a heated outdoor pool — well suited to a UK or US couple wanting a full weekend programme rather than a single day.
Weddings run as an exclusive multi-day hire with the on-site team handling planning, catering and styling; guest testimonials from American and British couples praise the ease of planning from abroad. Vernantes is roughly 30 minutes from Saumur and an hour from Tours, with TGV connections from Paris and easy access to Nantes airport for international guests.
At a glance
- Capacity
- Up to 150 guests for the wedding day
- Accommodation
- On-site rooms for up to 40 guests
- Ceremony
- Symbolic ceremony in the historic on-site chapel, garden ceremony, terrace ceremony, indoor banquet hall
- Languages
- English-speaking owners/managers, French
- Nearest airports
- Nantes (NTE), Tours (TUF), Paris CDG
Practical details
- Typical hire
- 3 days / 2 nights exclusive use of château and grounds
- Music & noise
- Unknown — confirm with venue
- Catering
- In-house culinary team, with flexibility for couple preferences
- Accessibility
- Ground-floor reception rooms, chapel and pool area; upper-floor suites via period staircases — confirm with venue
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A note on independence
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