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Weddings & celebrations
A house that hosts a wedding every Saturday is a venue with rooms attached, which is a different business from ours. There is no events team; you will deal with the director of the house from the first conversation to the last.
We host about forty weddings a year across six houses, which is roughly seven each, which is deliberate. A house that hosts a wedding every Saturday is a venue with rooms attached, and that is a different business from ours.
There is no events team. You will deal with the director of the house you have chosen, and with the same two people from the first conversation to the last. Menus are written rather than chosen. There is no folder.
Three ways
Up to thirty guests, one room, one long table, and a house that does not have to be cleared of anybody else.
Thirty guests is the number at which a wedding is still a dinner. Everyone can hear the speeches without amplification, everyone meets everyone, and nobody spends the evening at a table of strangers on the far side of a marquee.
We hold the room, the menu is written with you over two conversations rather than chosen from a folder, and the rest of the house carries on around you. Most of our weddings are this one.
Exclusive use of one of the six. Every room, every terrace, both kitchens, and no other guests for the duration.
Taking a house entirely is the only way to have a celebration that spills into corridors, runs past midnight and starts again at breakfast without anyone being inconvenienced by it.
Aubris is the easiest at twenty-two rooms and the one we most often recommend. Tamerin requires all twenty-four villas and, in practice, a party of about fifty. Verane in February is the quiet extravagance: thirty-eight rooms, snow, and the thermal bath to yourselves.
For anniversaries, vow renewals and the birthdays nobody wants a party for. A dinner, a room, and one thing arranged privately.
Not everything worth marking wants an event. The Return is a dinner for between two and twelve, in a room of your own, with one experience arranged around it — the boat at dawn, the cellar at six, the bathhouse held empty for an hour.
There is no package, no cake decision and nobody singing. We ask what the occasion is and then, mostly, leave you to it.
Rooms
Capacities are the number of people who can sit down and hear each other, not the number who can physically be fitted in.
Montreval Verane
Cimaise's room, taken privately. Five-metre ceilings, the original beam structure, and the lake along one entire side.
Montreval Verane
The lake pavilion at the end of the terrace, open on three sides, with the water directly beneath the deck.
Montreval Calanera
The full terrace at Marena, under the original vine pergola, ninety metres above the sea.
Maison Aubris
The nine-metre oak table at Table d'Aubris, and the courtyard outside it. One room, one table, one sitting.
Montreval Sabaia
Open sand below the escarpment, lit entirely by fire and lanterns. No power, no amplification, no roof.
Montreval Tamerin
A canvas pavilion on the sand at the northern end of the beach, rigged by the boat crew and struck the following morning.
Celebrations
Write to celebrations@montrevalhotels.com with roughly when, roughly how many, and which house you are drawn to. The director of that house will answer.