From the Riviera to the châteaux of Bordeaux, France offers the widest range of venues in Europe — and the price gaps that come with it. The civil ceremony is held at the town hall of the commune where one of you lives.
58 listed agencies across 20 cities, each checked before publication.
Camille comes from interior architecture and it shows: clean lines, honest materials, nothing left to chance. She takes six weddings a year so she can stay present from the first meeting to the last crate.
Léa mostly marries foreign couples coming to the Riviera. She manages the gap between what a couple pictures from London or Zurich and what Provence actually allows in August.
Clémence works a lot with French-Swiss couples, between lake and mountains. Her method is written down: shared timeline, living budget, a check-in every two weeks.
Margaux produces large-scale weddings on the peninsula, often over three days with a private beach and an arrival by boat. She books 18 months ahead.
Anaïs plans Paris weddings in private mansions and châteaux less than an hour away. She has a long contact book and makes no secret of it.
Inès works with couples who organise themselves but want someone to hold the day together. Her prices are public on her own site, which is still rare in this trade.
Julie has been planning weddings in Bordeaux wine châteaux for over ten years. She offers a three-meeting package for couples who mostly want reassurance.
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No, not for two non-residents: one of you must have lived in the commune for a full, continuous month. Otherwise France is a symbolic-ceremony destination, with the legal marriage contracted at home.
The real calendar, which almost nobody spells out: one continuous month of residence, then lodging the file, then ten days of banns. Busy town halls — Paris, Nice, Saint-Tropez — do check this. And foreign documents are dated from when the file is lodged, so a birth certificate obtained too early expires.
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General information, taken from the official sources below. These rules apply commune by commune and do change: have them confirmed by the civil registry of the place you will marry before booking anything. We are not lawyers.
Checked on 11 september 2026 · service-public.gouv.fr — Mariage en France
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