There's no word for 'wedding' in French..

...it's a 'mariage' - but you can have a marriage without a wedding:

A marriage is a long term relationship between two individuals. A wedding, on the other hand, is the ceremony of getting married.

Lucky us!  We got to do the wedding bit!  We were really looking forward to catering what promised to be a très chic event, but didn't realise we'd enjoy it quite as much as the guests.

Not having been to many French weddings (i.e. just the one) we didn't really know what to expect.  Do guest wear hats? Throw confetti?  Make inappropriate speeches?  Are sexy bridesmaids and well scrubbed page boys to be expected?  A three tier cake?  And dancing to bad disco hits?

The answer my friends, is OUI.  Oui, oui, and oui.  All the good things we know and love.

You can't knock a good wedding, especially when the French bride and groom are brave enough to have fish and chips as part of the catering and the whole event is held in a dreamy, rock star South of France maison de maitre (think Mick and Bianca circa '72) with fairy lights, formal gardens and champagne on tap.

 

We had a ball.  Jacques, dressed as a Frite, kept us supplied with said champagne. Sophisticated Parisienne lawyers danced the Macarena.  Tisane the cat kept watch on the roof of the trailer. 

There was high demand for our fares for most of the night (fish & chips are 'class', 'mignon' and 'chic' for the French) and it turns out the owner of the house is a screenplay writer who may want our trailer to appear in a (murder) episode of one of her detective mini series - let's hope it doesn't involve food poisoning.....