Home Sweet Event collection, estate no. 01
Cavaillon · L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
The estate
First mentioned in the 16th century, when the Luberon's silk farms were being built, the old Barattes farmhouse has been carefully restored into a majestic bastide adjoining a mas. Today: 300 sq m of beautifully proportioned rooms, finely decorated, set in one hectare of landscaped grounds, at the gates of Cavaillon and L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. The estate is hired in its entirety for your wedding and lived in like a family home, for a weekend or longer: the ceremony facing the lavender, cocktails around the pool, dinner beneath the festoon lights, and the party in the soundproofed barn once the light goes.
One of four wedding venues in Provence in the Home Sweet Event collection.
The right estate
La Bastide des Barattes is right for you if you want somewhere chic, elegant and genuinely easy to reach, designed above all for the hours you spend celebrating.
Limited accommodation on the estate itself, but plenty of options next door: you are spared the logistics of housing everyone under one roof. It is also the obvious choice for an elegant, generous, memorable wedding with the budget kept under control.
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Ceremony space facing the lavender, cocktail area around the pool, a large shaded pergola, dinner area under festoon lights, a petanque corner, a large meadow for children, and a 150 sq m soundproofed barn where the dancing carries on without the music travelling across the valley.
Secured private pool, garden lounges, sun loungers and parasols, a plancha grill, a petanque court and private parking. House linen is provided.
If you are hosting guests beyond the 2 cottages on site, the immediate neighbourhood offers more: guesthouses, cottages and unusual stays a few minutes' walk away, hotels within a five-kilometre radius.
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Most couples who marry at La Bastide des Barattes have never set foot in Cavaillon before the day they come to visit. Eight of our couples in ten live somewhere else: another region of France, and more often another country. Committing to a house you have seen in photographs, a caterer you have never met and a run of days you cannot rehearse is daunting, and that worry, far more than the budget or the guest list, is what fills the first message people send us.
So the way we work is built around the distance rather than adapted to it. You keep one contact from that first message to the farewell brunch, with no call centre and no file passed from hand to hand. You organise the wedding yourself, your own way, because that freedom is the reason to hire a private estate at all. What we hand you is a toolbox: frank advice on what works at this bastide and what does not, and an ecosystem of suppliers who have already worked in its kitchen and on its lawn. They commit to a charter of ethics, fairness, honesty and reliability, and that is all we ask of them, because we take no commission from any of them.
Two habits do most of the reassuring. Once a year we open one of the estates for two to four days with around forty of those suppliers, an event we call the Wedding Shop Days: our couples come free of charge, taste what the caterer would actually serve, hear the band play and meet the florist. One weekend there replaces half a dozen trips to Provence. And after every celebration the couple fills in a satisfaction questionnaire, whose answers decide who stays on the list. Recommending people we earn nothing from only means something if somebody is checking.
FAQ
Yes. La Bastide des Barattes can be booked in its entirety, for two to five days: no other group is hosted on the property.
You receive our brochure within 5 minutes of sending the form, then we call you to talk through your project. One single contact follows you from the first message to the last day of your event.
Only for caterers (you choose from our list of around ten partner caterers and private chefs). For every other supplier, no imposed list. We recommend an ecosystem of professionals committed to a charter of ethics, fairness, honesty and reliability, and take no commission: you pay them directly, at their own rates. A moral commitment is all we ask in return, and the satisfaction questionnaire our couples fill in after each event is what decides who stays on the list.
Yes. La Bastide des Barattes has a secured private pool, with garden lounges, sun loungers and parasols.
Eight of our couples in ten do exactly that, from another region of France or another country, so the whole way we work is built around it rather than adapted to it. You keep a single contact from the first message to the farewell brunch, the suppliers we point you to have already worked at the bastide, and none of them pays us a commission, so the advice you get has no second motive. Most couples visit once before booking and once more before the wedding, and the Wedding Shop Days are designed to compress the remaining meetings into one weekend.
A party rather than a trade fair. Once a year we open one of the estates for two to four days and invite around forty suppliers from our ecosystem: caterers, photographers, florists, musicians, decorators. Our couples come free of charge, with no entry fee and nothing to sign on site. You taste what the caterer would serve, hear the band play and get a physical sense of your own event instead of a browsing one. Every couple who has booked an estate is invited to the next edition, and we pass on the dates as soon as they are fixed.
From June to late September, depending on the year. The lavender field lies just beyond the Bastide.
Reviews
4.8out of 5
93 reviews published on Google, recorded on 21 August 2026. Read them on Google →
Request a quote
Tell us the essentials. You receive our brochure within 5 minutes, and we call you for the rest.
One single contact, from the first message to the last day. No call centre, no file changing hands.
No commission on suppliers. We recommend an ecosystem committed to a quality charter; you pay them at their own rates.
The estate all to yourselves. Two to five days, no other group.
Prefer to talk?
+33 6 44 64 42 55
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If you would like to know more
La Bastide des Barattes is told at greater length there: the spaces one by one, the seasons, the practical questions.
