Wedding Program
Optional Agreements
The Minute by Minute Schedule of The Whole Program
Silver Wedding
General Terms
Details About The Wedding Ceremony
Details About Optional Agreements
Photo album
Upon arrival, a letter from Chateau Modave is waiting for the
wedding couple, with welcoming wishes and the complete schedule
of the ceremony and also shedule for fitting of costume and hairdresser.
The day before the ceremony, meeting of the bride and/or groom
with our Japanese attendant in the lobby of the hotel. Departure
to the rental ceremony clothes shop on foot or by taxi cab. Fitting
of the wedding costume and/or dress.Clothes are adjusted to the
gromm and/or bride's size during the afternoon, and then brought
to the hotel.
On the wedding day, at 07.50 a.m. and in case of none rented clothes,
meeting of the bride with our Japanese attendant in the lobby
of the hotel and departure to the hairdresser's.Transportation
by white Mercedes with chauffeur.
On the wedding day, at 10.00 a.m., meeting of the wedding couple
with our Japanese attendant in the lobby of the hotel. Then, departure
to Modave. Transportation by white Mercedes with chauffeur and
wedding decorations. The wedding clothes are put in the booth
of the car. Most of the drive (+/- 1.15 hour) is scenic: countrysidelanscapes
with forest, a.s.o. The guests of the couple also travel from
Brussels to Modave in Mercedes with chauffeur.
At 11.30 a.m., arriving of the Mercedes at Modave. Welcoming of
the wedding couple by the Curator of the Chateau or his Assistant.
The butler takes care of the wedding clothes. Filming by our cameraman
of the arriving of the wedding car in the main courtyard and of
the welcoming of the couple.
Presentation of the Chateau (estate, building) and its main owners
by the Curator or his Assistant, with Japanese attendance. The
wedding couple receives a colourd picture book of the Chateau
in Japanese.
At +/- 11.45 a.m., the couple is accompanied to the White & Gold
Drawing-room. This room consists of an antechamber, a dressing
room, a bathroom and a drawing-room. The butler hangs up the wedding
clothes in the wardrobe of the dressin romm. In the drawing-room
is a flower decoration, the wedding bouquet of fresh flowers offered
to the bride, fresh flowers for the corsage of the bridegroom's
costume, fresh fruits and light refreshments served on a plate.
Through the window of this room, picturesque outlook (57meters
high) over the valley of the Hoyoux river.
During dressing time, the guests are waiting in one of the drawing-rooms
of the Chateau, with light refreshments service. If the couple
wishes, one guest may accompany in the White & Gold Drawing-room.
After 45 minutes, at 12.30 p.m., the photographer takes a few
pictures, with Japanese attendance. Then, the wedding couple is
brought to the chapel through the apartments of the Duke de Montmorency
(owner of the Chateau during the XVIIIth century), the Guards
room and the main staircase. Upstairs, the wedding couple meets
the priest, who accompanies them to the private chapel. Video
filming and taking of photographs. The guests are waiting for
the couple inside the chapel.
The virgin road is 15 meters long. Appropriate music when the
wedding couple enters the chapel. The chapel is decorated with
flower arrangements. The ceremony is filmed and photographed.
The ceremony consists in the lecture of a text, exchange of wedding
vows and presentation of rings (brought by the couple), with Japanese
attendance. The priest offers the couple a bible in Japanese.
When the ceremony is finished, around 13.00 p.m., the Curator
of the Chateau or his Assistant offers the couple a lithograph
representing the front view of the Chateau, a certificate of Wedding
Ceremony in Modave and a pewter dish representing the back of
the Chateau (product of local handicrafts) with wedding date and
couple's name engraved. then the couple signs the Chateau's Golden
Book while the photographer is taking pictures and the cameraman
is filming.
Champagne cocktail is served into the Louis XIV Drawing-room in
the presence of the priest, Curator or his Assistant and Japanese
attendant with flower decorations. The photographer and the cameraman
are presents. Inside this Drawing-room is a 1867 Piano Forte signed
Ph. H. Herz (Paris). It is well possible for the bride, bridegroom
or guests to play on that piano. After the cocktail, the couple
and guests are brought to the balcony of the Louis XIV Drawing-room
and in the Bedroom of the Duchess de Montmorency for pictures
and video filming.
Lunch is served in the Blue Drawing-room (from two to eight persons)
or in the Hercules Drawing-room (from nine persons). The lunch
consists in a starter, soup, main course, dessert and coffee with
Belgian chocolates. It is prepared by the regular cooking staff.
The table is decorated with flowers, and lunch served in the dishes
of Modave in Gien faience, dating back to 1866. The service is
supplied by a private butler. The photographer takes pictures
and the cameraman is filming when lunch starts and for presentation
of the wedding dessert.
Weather permitting, before or after the lunch following the time
of the year because of luminosity, the couple and guests are driven
by car into the valley of the Hoyoux river for photographs with
the Chateau on the cliff (57 meters high) in the background.
Photographs taken in the most prestigious rooms of the Chateau
and outside in the gardens, with Japanese attendance.
In all the rooms occupied by the couple, flower arrangements by
Mr. Dominique RAUSIN, prizewinner of the 1989 Floral Decoration
Word Cup in Tokyo.
Japanese attendance the whole day long.
Arounf 14.30 p.m. (16.00 if the lunch is chosen), the couple goes
back to the White & Gold Drawing-room to change clothes. At 15.00
p.m. (16.30 or 17.00 p.m. if the lunch is chosen), return to Brussels
with Japanese attendant, in same white Mercedes.