Plan a Magical Wedding in Paris

How romantic can you get? Paris the most romantic city in the world, is immortalized by the world’s most famous couples, including Heloise and Abelard, George Sand and Frédéric Chopin, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky.

It doesn’t take much more than the words “let’s get married in Paris!” to thrill two lovers. The city of love, the city of light, the city where love stories come true, Paris is the ideal location to make it happen. That is perhaps why some of the most romantic couples return to the city year after year, and why some of them never leave.

And the best way to logistically gather your loved ones and family to share the occasion with you is to rent one or more luxury apartments in Paris. Compared to the cost of renting luxury hotel rooms in Paris to accommodate everyone, this option is not only significantly more affordable but also eminently more comfortable and fun!

Just imagine your arrival. You and your fiance will have asked for a romantic luxurious Paris apartment, which means the champagne will be on the ice when you arrive and the red roses beautifully arranged in a vase to welcome you.

Table for two? Mais oui! Just swing open the lovely tall French doors to your private balcony and a table with two chairs awaits. Candles are well stocked. The luxurious bathroom, or bathrooms, can have aromatic oils and soaps and bubble bath for your pleasure. Your luxurious kitchen can be stocked with your love’s favorite treats. A private chef can be arranged to prepare private meals a deux. All this is merely a prelude to your wedding. You can arrive a week or two ahead and arrange the final details of the event at your leisure without any time pressure.

When your guests arrive in the luxury vacation apartment in Paris that you have leased for their stay you can meet them at the front door! Welcome them in, show them their rooms, how to use the TV and stereo, and share memories and companionship in their comfortable living room. This is when you can decide if you are going to follow through with tradition and have the bride-to-be move in the last day or so before the wedding so that the dress is a secret and so that the air of anticipation is added to! It can be arranged to have the males move in together and have the girlfriends of the bride have one of the apartments to themselves. Or you can leave everyone where they are and keep your wedding simple and carefree.

So many people choose to get married in Paris that there are companies you can hire in Paris that will plan the entire event for you, from photographer, to dress, to food, to location. Or you can enjoy arranging it yourself. The extra week or two ahead of your wedding will give you time to visit the local florist for flowers, meet the photographer you found online before you arrived for picture taking and for discussing what pictures you would like to be taken on the day, drop into the restaurant or location you reserved ahead of time online to introduce yourself and go over the menu one more time in person, and have a few final meals together in romantic restaurants to keep the spark alive and well before your big day.

This has to be one of the most stress free ways to get married in Paris. If you instead rented individual hotel rooms, you will all be there separated by walls and hotel staff and formality as far as dress and behavior. The separateness and formality and chances to have disappointment in the level of service or cleanliness of rooms in a hotel can add to stress when planning a destination wedding in a foreign country. Imagine having a relative or treasured friend have problems with the hotel. Not fun. This is one of the reasons why so many couples engage luxury vacation apartments in Paris for their guests and themselves. The level of service is well known. The quality and luxury of the apartments have been vetted by professionals. They have maid service, private chefs, and assistants that are yours just for the asking. And it is much more fun to be all together in a homey environment in beautiful city of Paris, where they can gather together in the kitchen at all times of night to raid the refrigerator or gather together in the living area to watch movies or talk. There is a freedom and flow for them that is possible in this way.

So go ahead. Say the words. “Let’s get married in Paris!”