Getting married at the Château de Changy: a videographer's view

I filmed a wedding at the Château de Changy, and it is the kind of place you leave knowing you would happily return. This page is not a brochure: it is what a videographer remembers of an estate after spending a full day there, camera in hand.

The estate

• Location - Gy-les-Nonains, Loiret (45), 10 km from Montargis and roughly 1 h 20 from Paris
• Grounds - 12 hectares bordered by woodland, crossed by two arms of a river, with tricentennial trees
• Reception - the 300 m² orangery beside the river, seating up to 250 guests
• Terrace - 160 m² at the water's edge
• Lounges - the Salon Vert Billard and the Salon Gris
• Accommodation - 21 double rooms and a dormitory, around 57 beds
• Also - swimming pool, lime tree avenue, medieval tower

Information gathered from the venue's public pages at the time of writing. Please confirm capacities and current terms directly with them.

The spaces, and what you do with them on camera

The orangery is the heart of the day. Its tall glazing opens onto the park and the river, which gives abundant, soft natural light late in the afternoon. That is a rare comfort when filming a dinner or speeches without flattening the atmosphere with additional lighting. Its 160 m² riverside terrace extends the drinks reception outdoors.

The 12-hectare park is the decisive asset. Twelve hectares is not a garden: it is avenues, perspectives, tricentennial trees and two arms of a river. In practice, a couple's session can move through three or four completely different settings without ever getting in a car, and the drone has room to breathe. The lime tree avenue in particular offers exactly what I look for: natural depth, where two people can walk for a long time.

The indoor lounges and the medieval tower become precious if it rains, and in the Loire Valley a covered plan B is never a wasted luxury.

Sleeping on site changes the rhythm

With 21 double rooms and a dormitory, around fifty beds, most guests stay on the estate. That logistical detail has a direct effect on the film: nobody is watching the clock for the drive home. The evening stretches, the morning preparations happen on site without stress, and the most sincere moments, the ones that arrive once the tension drops, have time to exist.

What this venue changes for your film

A château imposes a technical constraint few couples anticipate: the light range. Pale stone in full sun and large openings create violent differences between inside and out. That is where the work happens, with exposure controlled while shooting and careful grading afterwards, so faces stay readable without burning the sky or deadening the façade.

The other, rarer advantage is quiet. The estate hosts one wedding at a time: no other group in the park, no other crew to work around. For a videographer, that means you can set up a shot, wait for the right light and let a scene unfold without being jostled.

A wedding I filmed there

Laury & Matthieu were married there on 19 July 2025. The full account of their day is here: their wedding at the Château de Changy.

This venue is one of the Loiret wedding venues I document. You can also read the Google reviews left by the couples I have worked with.

Contacting the venue

Studio SB neither owns nor manages the Château de Changy. For availability, rates and viewings, please contact their team directly.

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