Any ladies out there willing to share their wedding experience in kanton Zurich / Luzern ?

I never organized any event for more than 15 people which I am the dj and caterer.

A little advice would be great for a head start.

For advice, depends on what you want:
- how many people?
- relaxed informal party or chic formal ones?
- what time of year?
- Party after church wedding or after official wedding?
etc...

There will be maximum 100 people in the wedding ( I am trying to reduce the numbers) , relaxed informal party will be held after church wedding , formal wedding make me bored..

Oh the ceremony will be in Spring 2014! Long way to go .. both families are from far and 1 year plan is sufficient.. think so ..

We did the same but non traditional non boring wedding
104 peeps and in my homecountry with guest from all over the world.

Ceremony should be as short as possible. (Almost) Nobody likes the church part (ceremony) Ours was outside in the sun and was great and only 20 min long.
no wedding planner but we let the place we rented take care of most. We gave them our ideas and then they proposed things.(food, flowers for table, and people they usually work with. They will have tons of connections which you should use) They worked with their caterer. We did a buffet BBQ and was perfect. Then open bar all night long (ours was in Belgium so it didnt cost us a fortune...) It is a sh*t load of work for so many people but if you are properly organized you will not have to do a thing on the wedding day besides getting drunk and enjoy yourself

Here is the order of things asap:
1. book room and church 1 year before min.
2. book photographer 1 year in advance also same for dj or band
3. create invites and send 6-4 months in advance if it is an international wedding so travel deals can be booked.
4. The rest all falls into place


I just found out today the post office lost my wedding suit ......that was being send over

First, I assume you are organising the celebration part, but if doing the civil wedding, make sure you have that all organised and done in advace of the religious or other celebration.

Do or organise something that is meaningful to you as a couple, i.e. is a party your type of thing, an excursion?, a good meal, or somthing else. Then plan around this.

1. get date and papers for the civil wedding
2. organise the religious/celebration part with official and venue by reserving person and place
3. orgainse the party at same place or nearby, think about transport
4. reserve accomodation and other logistics

I'm not a lady but to offer a quick tip check out www.hof-lanschi.ch it's in Küssnacht am Rigi so close to Luzern and we used it for our wedding. Was an amazing experience, price was unbelievable, typical Swiss farm/feeling with a great view.

Thanks for your tips! . Organizing an event in Switzerland would not be that cheap.

You are right. I have to start looking for a caterer. I hope the caterer in switzerland have the same connection as you found in Belgium. I would be a lot of work to sort all those decorations and flowers.

I am right on track now. Cross fingers!

Oh I am so sorry to hear about your suit. Hopefully the post can replace your with a similar one.

Thanks Runningdeer! The church ceremony will be done in Zurich.We are currently looking for a nearby venue.

I am absolutely looking for a good meal! I am not sure if I can get a good caterer. It has been 3 years I am settled in Switzerland , I could not find any nice Swiss restaurant around except the one in the French part. Most of the food are either taste blend or salty.

Don't stress too much, don't let anyone convince you to spend lots of money on things that are not important to the confort of your guests (your dress will be beautiful whatever you spend; nobody cares about seat covers), and delegate everything you can - people love to help.

Also don't get too stressed if it's a week before and your fiance hasn't done anything about a suit yet, he's bound to manage.

Yes, don't get married.

Not a lady but we organized our wedding here in Vaud and chose a vineyard for the ceremony & apéro - was cheaper than a wedding my sister had in Napa. Our dinner, however, was a very un-American like 6 hrs in length - apparently not uncommon for the Suisse

Been to Vaud last year. I could imagine how beautiful the scenery around the vineyard with the background of a mountain. Unfortunately it is too far for us to travel from Zurich to Vaud

6 hours is quite common here. I have been to a wedding in France. We started with the church ceremony at 15.00 then apero followed by dinner (4 course meal) then we dance till 2.00 am!- Some of them stayed up to 4.00. Just need a lot of bozze to keep them awake.

Pick up a red guide book, wedding guide - it has all the contacts you need for a wedding, they have it in jelmoli in the area you register the wedding, think their is an app as well! If you need a wedding dress you can pick up a half price Jenny packham or Vera Wang at traumbraut.ch

Congrats and good luck!

Thanks Poweelauer. I didn't know Jelmoli have this service. This is very helpful information!

I am looking for a caterer at the moment. Anybody ?

As soon as you know the date for sure, send some "reserve the date" to everybody so that you will have more time to send the invit'

I made the church booklets for a friend of mine, it was of course very nice. If you are interested, pm me and I can send it to you to give you some idea...

Hi Powerlauer,

I have been to Jelmoli this weekend. Unfortunately they do not have this service anymore (just to let you know)

Don't want to rain on your parade.... but in Switzerland you must have a civil ceremony, the church bit is optional. and unlike the UK, for example, it's rare for a church or other venue to be licenced for doing the civil bit as well as the 'social, ceremonial part' of a wedding.
So you need to check if there's a list of places that can do both (if that's what you want) with your local Mairie or town hall. Or decide if you just have the civil part, and arrange a big party elsewhere.
And just to be doubly difficult, they won't usually make bookings for the civil part more than three months in advance, so people often get married and have the church ceremony on two different days!