Château de Nainville-les-Roches
wedding cake
Venue notes and the sugar paste cake for a restored château in its own park, south of Paris, from a cake designer who has worked there.
Château de Nainville-les-Roches
a château in its own park.
I am Ange Gimenez, a wedding cake designer in Paris. I have worked at Château de Nainville-les-Roches, a restored château in the Essonne, and I design sugar paste cakes for its salons.
The château stands in the village of Nainville-les-Roches, about forty kilometres south of Paris and reached from the A6. It sits in a park of around twenty-eight hectares: French gardens, wooded paths, water and, as the venue describes it, peacocks, swans and deer. After a recent restoration the house reopened for weddings and private events, with its salons, a large circular entrance hall and a chapel.
A wedding here usually moves from the chapel, or a secular ceremony in the gardens, to a cocktail on the terrace, then to dinner in the salons. The venue lists rooms on the estate and a private car park, so close family can stay the night and the other guests can be driven out from Paris for the day.
For rooms of this scale I build tall without crowding the table, so the cake reads from the far end of the salon and still rewards the guest who walks up close. The flowers are shaped petal by petal in sugar paste, and the palette follows yours. For the wedding featured on Style Me Pretty, that meant blue, sage and gold.
On the day, I drive from my Paris atelier to Nainville-les-Roches with the cake, install it myself and leave only when it is exactly right.
Blue, sage and gold,
on Style Me Pretty.
In August 2026, Style Me Pretty published a wedding at Château de Nainville-les-Roches for which I made the cake, in a classic palette of blue, sage and gold. Read the feature on Style Me Pretty.
The photographs of that wedding belong to its photographer and are published with the feature. The images on this page come from other weddings and from my studio; the photographers and venues behind them are on my partners page.
Why sugar paste
for a château in its park
A cocktail in the gardens, a long dinner in the salons, an hour on the road from Paris. Sugar paste is the medium that holds through all three.
Holds through a summer cocktail
When the cocktail moves onto the terrace and into the park, a buttercream cake softens within the hour. Sugar paste keeps its edges and its petals from the first photograph to the cutting.
Each petal sculpted individually
Every flower is built petal by petal from sugar paste. Not piped, not printed, not pre-made. A single peony may take thirty minutes to an hour, and the colours follow your palette rather than a catalogue.
Height in proportion to the salons
Sugar paste gives me the structure for tall, multi-tiered cakes. In salons of this size I aim for a silhouette that reads across the room without overwhelming the table or the ceiling.
Delivered and placed in person
I do not hand the cake to a courier. I drive it from Paris down the A6, set it in place and adjust the presentation to the table and the evening light myself.
How a wedding cake
comes to life
Discovery Call
I begin with a conversation. Your venue. Your aesthetic. The feeling you want the cake to carry. I listen before I speak. No questionnaire. A real exchange about your day.
Design Consultation
Based on your venue, season and style references, I propose a design direction. Tier structure. Flower selection. Colour palette. The commission is confirmed at this stage, with timeline and logistics.
Sculpting Phase
Two to four weeks before your wedding, my hands are entirely yours. I sculpt every sugar flower by hand. Every petal is dried and assembled one at a time. The cake structure is built and dressed in the final days before delivery.
Delivery & Setup
I deliver to Nainville-les-Roches myself. I place the cake on the table by hand, adjust the presentation on site and leave only when it is exactly right. Your planner has one fewer thing to manage.
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Answered before
you have to ask.
Other châteaux & estates
I design for.
The full map, region by region: wedding cakes in France.
Tell me about
your day.
I take around thirty commissions a year, so each piece has my full attention. If you are planning a wedding at Château de Nainville-les-Roches or anywhere in Île-de-France, I would love to hear from you.