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Wedding traditions of Provence

Lavender, olive groves and long outdoor tables make Provence a favoured place for rural and destination weddings.

Provence has many stone farmhouses, chateaux and vineyards that host weddings, and its folk culture includes the farandole, a chain dance, and the music of the galoubet and tambourin. The civil ceremony still takes place at the mairie of the commune.

Provence: A typical Provence scenery, showing a lavender field with the Mont Ventoux in the background.
Photo: Robert Brink, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A wedding here

A rustic wedding often involves a long dinner outdoors, with rose wine, tapenade and the Provencal feast of lamb, ratatouille and cheeses. The 13 desserts, usually a Christmas tradition, are sometimes copied into wedding menus.

Folk customs

The farandole is danced through villages on festival days, and in some weddings the guests join a line behind the couple. Costumes of Arles, with lace and ribbons, are worn at festival and folklore weddings.

Wedding customs of Provence

Also part of it, and being written: Farandole (A chain dance of Provence.), Provencal costume (The dress of Arles women.), Wedding cake (In some villages a nougat or calisson is served.), Calisson (An almond sweet of Aix.).

A wedding trail idea for Provence

  1. Gordes and the Luberon Stone villages favoured for destination weddings.
  2. Aix en Provence A Provencal town with historic mairie and gardens.
  3. Arles The home of the traditional Arlesienne dress.
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Written by the EveryShaadi desk with AI assistance. Opening hours, venues and wedding-season dates change; check locally before travelling. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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