Wedding photographers in Aix-en-Provence

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   The Hôtel de Ville

   The town hall, rebuilt in the 17th century beside the clock tower, holds weddings from Thursday to Saturday at an hour the registrar sets. Files are handed in by appointment — appointments for the next year’s weddings open in September — and incomplete ones are refused. The ceremony lasts at most 20 minutes, with two to four adult witnesses.

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   Saint-Sauveur Cathedral

   The cathedral, whose cloister dates from the late 12th century, celebrates weddings on Saturdays at 15:00 and 16:30; the parish also marries couples at Notre-Dame de la Seds. Contact it a year ahead if you can: preparation takes at least six months, and the civil wedding must already have taken place.

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   Bastides and wine estates

   Receptions move out to country houses with gardens and vines. The Château de la Gaude is an 18th-century bastide with a chapel and listed formal gardens among 30 ha of vines; the Château de Fonscolombe, 20 minutes away at Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, an 18th-century estate listed as a historic monument; and Château La Coste, nearby, a wine estate that hosts wedding ceremonies.

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   Cézanne’s terraces

   The town hires out terraces at its two Cézanne sites for private events: up to 300 people at the Jas de Bouffan, the painter’s family estate, and up to 100 at the Atelier des Lauves, his studio. Weddings are not named on the list, so ask.

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals for the Aix-en-Provence station give average highs of 23.4 °C in May, 27.9 °C in June, 31.0 °C in July, 30.8 °C in August and 25.9 °C in September, and 21 days above 30 °C in an average July. Summer is nearly dry — 15.9 mm in July, on two days — while September, the wettest of the warm months, brings 88.2 mm in a few heavy downpours. The mistral, the cold north wind, blows most often in winter and spring. The Festival d’Aix, the opera festival, runs from 1 to 20 July 2027; book rooms early.