My Brothers wedding in September

Carol · My Brothers wedding in September

My brother is getting married here

www.flocellierecastle.com

He is booking the Keep & the Pavillion for the 2 familes. I am really looking forward to it. We are just wondering what would be the best way to get there. Was thinking about bringing the car but might be a lot of driving. The flights are very expensive we have looked into flying into Nantes for 2 adults & 1 child cheapest seems to be just short of €800. Was thinking of doing euro-disney for a day.
Not sure if we should drive or take the high speed train from somewhere that is a 90 min drive away

Acorncup

carol it looks an absolutely beautiful place

sorry i can't advise you on travelling in France, but I'm sure others will

Carol

It does look nice cant wait. They are having the ceromony in the castle and then having a champagne recetion then having the meal in a marquee in the grounds

madsue

Wow, that looks absolutely fantastic

Can't tell you about the travel either, sorry, but I spent a lot of my holidays in that area when I was young, and the journey down in a car, always seemed so long to me and my brother.

Carol

Yes Sue and it is only for a week so may not be worth the time spend travelling better mabe even though expensive to fly and hire a car will have to explore it a bit more

GoldenChippie

Hi Carol - that looks fab

I have stayed in that area and we drove there - took 2 days

Carol

Ok 2 days is way to much when we are just going for a week

GoldenChippie

Carol have you tried flybe? you could do Dublin to southampton and then Southampton to LaRochelle

Carol

Will definatly take a a look Gail is La Rochelle even closer than Nantes
Suppose if I just take a look on the map can find that out

GoldenChippie

it looked about the same distance to me

Acorncup

And Southampton has a nice little airport

McBabe

We have driven to Nantes (my daughter Julie used to live there) we drove down to dover and stopped overnight in Calais on the way and on the way back, I would say its too long a journey with Thomas.

It looks fabulous.

Eurodisney is a long way from Nantes.

Carol

I think there is some sort of express train from nantes to Paris.
Might look into this does anyone have any information on this

Carol

Plans changed
We now do not have to drive.
My Dad wants to drive all the gear there.
Even though we have booked flights into Nantes on Sun 23rd September we are now thinking of flying directly to Paris on that Sunday and do Euro Disney 1st then get a train to Nantes and then hire a car or 2 or maybe even talk my Dad into collecting some of us

Carol

My brother is having his Irish registry office wedding tomorrow

Carol

They are legally married now.
They didnt exchange rings or anything today was just a formality

madsue

Congratulations to your brother and his wife Carol. My friend did the same when they got married, so that they will celebrate their anniversary on the day they had the blessing and reception

at your text!!!!!!

Carol

They are not counting today as their Anniversary.
But I reckon I will remember 11th Sep easier (for obvious reasons) rather than 28th Sep.
My Sister (who is pregnant & cant go to wedding in France) and her husband were the only 2 who attended todays proceedings.
I bet they had a good day went for a meal and drinkies after

madsue

Nice for your sister to be able to have a celebration with them today then

Carol

Yes well they were just going to go alone and not make a big deal of it and pull 2 wittnesses in from the street (basically)
But when they heard that my Sis and BIL could not go to France they decided that it would just be the 4 of them and intimate thingy,
My sister was chuffed to be so involved

Trish

Aww that's nice that your sis was able to share today with them. I bet it made it a bit more special than they'd originally planned. Bet you're all looking forward to the "wedding" now!
Best of luck to them, hope it all goes perfectly for them.

Carol

Thanks Sue and Trish

Carol

Going early Monday morning
Finished work now so in holiday mode now

Carol

Had a great time despite the cold weather.
Would not recommend the chateau that they got married in.
Fantastic setting the food was amazing.
But the castle was very old and there was no central heating and you couldnt lock any door.
There were no shops near-by.
All that being said the fact that the whole group stayed together meant that we did have a good time and with 10 cars altogether meant that if you needed to go anywhere there was always someone willing to drive