Do you travel to Italy and Switzerland for weddings?

Yes. Alexandra is based near Lyon and regularly photographs weddings throughout France (Lyon and Provence), all of Italy, and Switzerland's Lake Geneva region (Geneva and Lausanne), as well as elsewhere in Europe.

Do you speak English?

Yes. Alexandra speaks English, French, Romanian and Spanish, and regularly works with international and English-speaking couples.

How much does your wedding photography cost?

Wedding photography collections start from 2,200 euros, with three packages up to around 4,300 euros depending on coverage. Elopements and destination weddings are quoted individually.

Do you photograph elopements and destination weddings?

Yes. Alexandra photographs intimate elopements, chateau and private-estate weddings, and destination celebrations across France, Italy and Switzerland in an editorial, documentary style.

What is your photography style?

Editorial and documentary: natural, candid storytelling with a refined editorial aesthetic that captures the day as it unfolds, without staging it.

Oliwia & Théo — French-Polish wedding, Château de Chavagnac

A Franco-Polish wedding in the heart of Ardèche.

Oliwia and Théo chose the Château de Chavagnac, in the village of Lemps, to celebrate their wedding surrounded by family and friends who had travelled from France and Poland. A wedding that crossed languages and crossed borders, held together by a setting that didn’t need translating.

Carefully restored by its owners, Frank and Silvère, this beautiful château has gradually become both a family home and a place of creation, where a very personal aesthetic has taken shape — one rooted in nature, simplicity and quiet elegance. It’s the kind of venue that doesn’t try to perform — and because of that, it photographs effortlessly. The interiors are lived in. The gardens are real gardens, not staging.

The château is also only about three hours from Geneva, where Oliwia and Théo live, which made the choice of location an obvious one. For couples based in Switzerland looking south, the Ardèche is one of the most undervalued wedding regions in France — wild, scented, close to the Rhône, with a light closer to the south than to the north.

The day began with a ceremony at the village church before the guests returned to the château for the reception. The walk back from the church through the village, in early afternoon light, gave us one of the strongest sequences of the day — the couple at the front, the families behind, the language switching between French and Polish without anyone noticing.

With its exceptional gardens and the surrounding Ardèche landscape, the setting feels both grounded and quietly cinematic. Dinner ran long. There were two cakes, both because of family customs, neither apologised for. Toasts were made in both languages, sometimes in the same sentence.

A bilingual wedding doesn’t divide a day in two — done well, it doubles its richness. Oliwia and Théo had clearly thought about this, and it showed in every choice they made.

If you’re a bilingual or international couple planning a wedding in France — Ardèche, Provence, the Rhône valley, anywhere — feel free to reach out. I’m bilingual French–English and used to working across cultures and timezones.

For a Provençal counterpart with its own kind of warmth, Justine & Nory at the Grange de Javon in the Luberon. And further north along the Loire, Château du Bourg near Roanne is another restored venue I return to every season.