14h30
Les préparatifs
The quiet before
The bouquet is tied at the last possible hour — garden roses cut that dawn, bound with a ribbon from her mother’s wedding dress.
Provence · Toscane — Atelier de mariage & fleurs
Maison Aubépine
Des soirées dans un jardin clos —
composed like paintings.
We compose evenings — candlelight, stone, and roses that remember the dark.
Maison Aubépine is a wedding atelier in the old sense of the word: planning, floral and décor drawn by the same hand. Since 2014 we have worked only in the walled gardens, cloisters and courtyards of Provence and Tuscany — places where stone holds the day’s heat long after the sun has gone, and a single candle does more than a thousand fairy lights.
We take twelve weddings a year, no exceptions. Most couples write to us eighteen months before their date. What they receive in return is a maison: one aesthetic conscience from the first letter to the last dance.
- 12mariages par an,
jamais davantage - 18mois d’avance —
the usual courtship - 2ateliers — Saint-Rémy-
de-Provence & Florence - 1florist, planner and
keeper of the evening
« The darkest, most beautiful weddings in Europe. »
One wedding,
told by its hours.
Every Aubépine wedding is scored hour by hour, light by light. This is how an evening at Château de Grimaud unfolded, last September.
16h00
La cérémonie
Vows in the chapel court
An arch of dark dahlias and cream hydrangea against a wall that has stood for seven hundred years. The roses will not outlive the night — that is the point.
The walls turn to honey,
and the garden begins its second life.
21h00
Le dîner aux chandelles
Three hundred candles, one long table
No uplighting, no LEDs. Beeswax only — it burns warmer. Conversation drops half an octave by the second course; that is when we know the table is right.
The garden holds its breath.
The band does not.
La dernière danse
Shoes in one hand, a candle in the other
Flowers with
a shadow side.
Our floral atelier works like a still-life painter: oxblood dahlias, bruised ranunculus, roses one day past perfect. Nothing pastel, nothing stiff — arrangements that look gathered by moonlight.
Everything is cut within a day’s drive of the venue. What survives the evening is carried to the village church at dawn; the rest returns to the soil it came from.
- Les archesceremony architecture & installations
- La tablecandlelit tablescapes, moss & fruit and beeswax
- La mariéebouquets, boutonnières, hair vines
- Le lendemaindawn deliveries — flowers given away, never thrown
Walls we know
by candlelight.
We hold quiet arrangements with seven estates between Saint-Rémy and Siena — gardens that close their gates to the public and open them, twelve nights a year, to us. If you already have a place, we will come to it; if you don’t, we will find the wall your evening deserves.
Camille
Aubépine
Camille began as a florist in the night markets of Avignon, arranging by lamplight what would be sold before sunrise. Ten years at grand maisons in Paris taught her the machinery of luxury; the walled garden behind her grandmother’s house in Saint-Rémy taught her everything else.
She founded Maison Aubépine in 2014 on a single conviction — that a wedding should feel like a painting you were briefly allowed to live inside. She still ties every bridal bouquet herself, and she has never once used a spotlight.
« La lumière parfaite existe déjà. Elle s’appelle une bougie. »— C.A.
Maison Aubépine — Provence & Toscane
You are cordially invited
You are cordially invited
to begin.
Tell us a little of your story. We answer every letter within two days — on paper, if you prefer. We are currently reading for 2027 and spring 2028.
MA
Reçu, avec plaisir.
Your letter is on Camille’s desk. Expect our reply within two days — and keep your evening of September free.