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N° 06 — Estate · Bordeaux

Estate

Painted ballrooms, formal gardens, and a wedding that unfolds room by room.

A figure in a tailored suit in a softly lit panelled room
Plate · Folio N° 06 · Estate
The World

Choose the room first — the rest follows the architecture.

Estate houses, painted ballrooms, libraries, terraces, and formal gardens — rooms with the scale to carry the formality. The wedding unfolds throughout the house as the night goes on: ceremony in one room, dinner in another, dancing where the ballroom opens up. Black-tie, florals that read lush but controlled, polish and presence without stiffness. Estate is for the couple who want the architecture to lead — and who know the room is the occasion.

The Folio — ContentsThe Collector's Edition

The whole night, on the record.

i.The Look The world in plates — painted rooms, libraries, formal gardens, candlelight, and the architecture that carries it all.
ii.The Logic Why this wedding works: the night unfolds room by room, the architecture leading the design.
iii.The Budget Where the money goes first, what it buys, and what the house already brings.
iv.The Vendor Direction The briefs — the florist, the caterer, the band — in the language estate vendors answer to.
v.The Hour-by-Hour The whole night, timed — the grand entrance, the black-tie dinner, the rooms opening as it goes.
A grand marble ballroom under crystal chandeliers, round tables set in white for the wedding
Plate · The Room
A formal avenue of Italian cypress along a gravel path
Plate · The Gardens
The Planning CompanionBuilt to plan against

The architecture, in your hands.

i.The Budget Logic The framework that keeps every spending decision answerable.
ii.The Vendor Briefs One per vendor — the florist, the caterer, the band — ready to send.
iii.The Timing The working timeline, from booking order to the order of the night itself.
iv.The Refusals What this wedding says no to — so you never re-argue it. Nothing that tips formality into stiffness.
v.The Decisions The calls that bring the night to life, in the order they need making.
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