Château de Lartigolle hosts wedding weekends, birthdays, group celebrations and corporate gatherings for 20 to 120 guests, across four event spaces that can be used alone or together. The château stands at Pessan, near Auch in Gascony, on one of the highest points of the area, about 50 minutes from Toulouse airport.
Seminars and company events
The house lists corporate gatherings among the events it hosts, and its vaulted cellar is offered for conference meetings as well as concerts and exhibitions. A company that wants to take over the whole property for a retreat gets the château, its five salons, 12 bedrooms and the same in-house team that runs the weddings: a planner, chefs, bar and service staff. Ask the team about dates outside the wedding season and about equipment for working sessions, which the site does not detail.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are the core of the business. The house has hosted them since its first paying guests in the summer of 2004, and it takes a limited number each year. Guests usually stay three nights. The ideal size is 80 to 100 guests, with a maximum of 120 on the wedding day. Each couple works with one in-house planner who coordinates the whole stay, not only the wedding day: timeline, styling, flowers, table design, bands and DJs, hair and make-up, transport and restaurant bookings for guests. Dinners are served in the courtyard, speeches can move to the cellar, and the night ends in the party room. A pool party is part of the weekend. The house accepts up to 10 children per event, and animals are not allowed in the buildings.
Rooms and capacities
Le Château, the main house, has five salons, a courtyard that seats 120 or more for dinner, and a terrace for evening drinks. La Cave is a vaulted cellar 30 meters long, seating 60 to 120, used for ceremonies, meetings, concerts or exhibitions. Le Club sits beneath the château: about 300 m² for over 100 guests, with a permanent bar, a dance floor, sound and lighting. L'Atelier is a self-contained space with an indoor bar area that seats 60, a terrace that seats 120 and private access to a pool.
Accommodation
The château has 12 en-suite bedrooms that sleep up to 28 guests, in doubles, triples and family rooms for four or more. A bedroom planner can be downloaded from the site to plan who sleeps where. The grounds include a swimming pool and a tennis court.
Catering
All food is cooked by in-house chefs, who build each menu around the hosts' tastes. The bar team, florists and stylists are also employed by the house, not hired for the day.
History and setting
The château dates from the 18th century and has been fully renovated. Its current owners left London and bought it in 2003, after a long search across south-west France. They opened with six bedrooms and enlarged the offer over the following years. The house sits in rolling Gascon countryside, among farmland and vineyards, west of Toulouse.
Getting there
From Toulouse-Blagnac airport, follow signs for Auch on the N124 for about 50 km through Gimont, then take the D12 toward Saramon for about 10 km. The full address is Château de Lartigolle, 32550 Pessan. Printable directions are available from the house.
