Indre-et-Loire · Montlouis-sur-Loire · Loire Valley
Wedding photographer at
Château de la Bourdaisière
Château de la Bourdaisière sits between Tours and Amboise, a Renaissance château from the time of François Ier, famous for its rose garden and its extraordinary conservatory of tomatoes. Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of Henri IV, was born here. It is one of the Loire Valley houses we would most love to photograph.
From our own weddings. We have not yet photographed here, and we would love to.
The château
The château goes back to the time of François Ier and has belonged to the de Broglie family for generations. It is as well known for its gardens as its history: a rose garden, and a nationally renowned kitchen garden holding more than five hundred varieties of tomato, unique in the world.
A three star hotel today, with thirty-one rooms across the château and grounds, it hosts weddings from an evening to a full weekend, fifteen kilometres from both Tours and Amboise.
Why la Bourdaisière suits the way we work
The Bourdaisière is a living garden as much as a château. The boxwood terrace clipped into fleur-de-lys, the rose garden, the Italian perspective, all of it gives a documentary photographer room to work outdoors, in colour and in season.
The vaulted François Ier hall seats up to three hundred under bare stone, and the grounds take an outdoor altar. It suits couples who want the Loire Valley at its most storied, without the stiffness of a palace.
Where your day photographs
The fleur-de-lys terrace
Boxwood clipped into the royal emblem, the château's signature view. It carries a wide portrait and an arrival beautifully.
The rose garden and kitchen garden
Colour through the season, and the famous tomato conservatory behind it, a background you will find at no other venue.
The vaulted François Ier hall
Three hundred and twenty square metres of bare stone, three hundred seated. Candlelight and stone, a room made for the evening.
The Italian perspective
A long garden axis for the couple portraits, best walked slowly at golden hour.
The chapel
Small, for around twenty, intimate enough that every face is close.
How we would photograph your day
We came to weddings from photojournalism. We observe, we anticipate, we capture what happens without interrupting it. No posing, no staging the facade, no asking anyone to do it again.
We always work as two. While one of us is at the ceremony, the other is watching the faces. That second pair of eyes is the difference between a record of the venue and a record of your day.
Getting there, and what it costs
la Bourdaisière is under an hour away, between Tours and Amboise. We live in Lencloître, in the Vienne, and travel to weddings in the Vienne and the Loire Valley is included in our packages, with no surcharge.
Our packages start at 3,190 €, both photographers for the full day, all edited images included.
Why us
This Is Reportage, TOP 20 Storytellers in the World, 2022. WPJA, TOP 50 Photographers in the World, 2021 and 2022. 232 international awards across sixteen years, judged anonymously from real weddings.
337 weddings photographed since 2009, across Europe. We are based in the Vienne, we speak French, English and Romanian, and we always work as a duo.
"We planned our whole wedding around being able to work with them. The way they naturally blend in while capturing every emotion, warm, humane, and so easy to work with."
"It only took five minutes to realise they were the friends we wanted to pay to be at our wedding."
Frequently asked questions
How many guests for a wedding at Château de la Bourdaisière?+
The vaulted François Ier hall seats up to three hundred guests.
Are you available to photograph weddings at Château de la Bourdaisière?+
Yes. la Bourdaisière is exactly the kind of venue we travel to. We are based in Lencloître, in the Vienne, and travel to weddings in the Vienne and the Loire Valley is included in our packages, with no surcharge.
How much does a wedding photographer at Château de la Bourdaisière cost?+
Our packages start at 3,190 €. That covers both photographers for the full day, from preparations to the evening, with all the edited images delivered in a private online gallery.
Do you work as two photographers?+
Always. Cristina and Petrică cover every wedding together, two angles at once. After sixteen years and 337 weddings, we coordinate without needing to speak.
Do you speak English?+
Yes, fluently. We work in French, English and Romanian, which matters for the international couples and mixed families who so often marry in this part of France.
How far in advance should we book?+
Most couples book 12 to 18 months ahead, and peak summer dates go first. If your date at la Bourdaisière is approaching, write to us anyway, it costs nothing to check availability.
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