Events et Saveurs

Events et Saveurs cannot quite agree with itself on where it works. The homepage's own title tag calls the business "Traiteur Catering Gastronomique Vaud", a single canton, stated plainly. Scroll a couple of lines down on that same homepage and the hero banner reads "VAUD - GENÈVE - VALAIS", 3 cantons. Click through to the history page and the claim narrows again, to "traiteur à Genève et Vaud" (a caterer in Geneva and Vaud). Land on the wedding page itself and it widens the other way, to "Traiteur Mariage Suisse Romande, Vaud, Genève": all of French-speaking Switzerland, with 2 cantons named as if for emphasis. 4 separate pages, 4 different footprints. None of that is unusual marketing looseness on its own, but a couple planning a wedding from outside the country reads "Vaud" or "Suisse romande" as a promise about who can actually show up with a van full of food, so it is worth checking what the promise resolves to once you leave the taglines behind.

A partner list with dates on it, and one canton missing from it

The clearest answer sits on the site's own "Domaines à louer" page, a dated list of the properties Events et Saveurs already caters at, published one entry at a time like blog posts rather than as a marketing grid. The oldest is La Corne à Vin, dated 19 October 2016; the newest is the company's own Maison du Prieur, dated 19 March 2021. In between: Château de Chillon, Château d'Oron, Château de la Sarraz, Château de Lucens, Domaine de la Capitaine, Domaine de Plein-Vent, Château d'Eclépens, and Le Domaine de Collex, 10 named properties in total, plus catering at a couple's own home as an 11th, undated option. The page's own text says some of these relationships go back "depuis plus de 20 ans", more than 20 years, longer than the dated posts themselves suggest.

Every one of those Vaud châteaux is easy enough to place. Le Domaine de Collex is not: it sits in Collex-Bossy, a commune Wikipedia lists under "Commune du canton de Genève", canton Geneva, not Vaud. So the Geneva half of the site's claim checks out against a genuine, named property, not just a sentence. Valais does not. Nothing on this list, on the contact page's separate venue dropdown (which adds 2 more names, Portes des Iris and Château du musée du Jeu, while dropping 2 from the first list, itself a small sign the site keeps 2 venue lists that were never quite reconciled), or anywhere else I read names a single Valais address, partner, or booking. The site does not say it has never catered a Valais wedding. It also never shows its work there. "Vaud - Genève - Valais" reads as the widest version of a claim that, on the caterer's own evidence, is fully backed for 2 cantons out of 3.

Ulrich Indermühle, from hotel school to his own events company

Behind the business is one named chef, Ulrich Indermühle. The site's history page says he trained at the École hôtelière de Genève and then spent years in "établissements étoilés suisses", starred Swiss establishments, in German-speaking Switzerland as well as Geneva; it names no specific restaurant or star count, so that career detail stands as the founder's own account rather than an independently checked one. In 2000 he set up Events et Saveurs (now trading as Events & Saveurs Sàrl, per the company's own catering catalogue) to move from restaurant kitchens into event cooking full time. That is the "more than 20 years" the domaines page gestures at: a single owner-chef's practice, not an events department that changed hands.

The Maison du Prieur, a Cluniac priory house the company itself runs

The exception on that list is the Maison du Prieur, not a lease or a booking relationship but a building the company itself runs, in the Cour du Cloître of the abbey at Romainmôtier. The site dates the building to the 13th century and describes it as the last surviving prior's house of its kind in Europe. Events et Saveurs has been its "partenaire traiteur officiel" since January 2019, under an agreement with the Fondation de Romainmôtier, the heritage foundation that owns the site (its own domain, fondationderomainmotier.ch, confirms the foundation exists independently of the caterer). The company also opened a small café inside the building, the Café du Prieur, on 1 September 2019. None of that is wedding-specific, but it is the concrete version of "gastronomique": an events company that took on the catering franchise for a protected historic building through a formal foundation agreement, not just a caterer that photographs well at châteaux.

It is also a working, currently booked calendar rather than a static claim. As of this writing, the Maison du Prieur's own listings show public brunches scheduled every second Sunday from 13 September through 25 October 2026, each 10:30am to 2pm. A footer copyright stuck on "2024" elsewhere on the site looks like neglect rather than closure once you see live bookings running months into the future.

What "gastronomique" turns out to mean on the plate

Events et Saveurs publishes its actual food in a 38-page catering catalogue, downloadable as a PDF, and it reads nothing like a canapé price sheet. The first 8 pages after the introduction are built around named amuse-bouches (a duck foie-gras "sucette" in white chocolate, a scallop cappuccino with fresh ginger, saffron risotto with a beef truffle and blackcurrant chutney) organised into named formulas: "Juste pour Grignoter", "Le Léger", "L'Original". Further in, the cocktail-dinatoire section carries a numbered wine list that names individual Vaud winemakers rather than generic grape varieties: a Chasselas from Domaine de la Capitaine, grown by Reynald Parmelin; another from Domaine de la Montardière in Tartegnin, grown by Laurent Mugnier; a Champagne, Veuve Alice Margot's "L'Archevesque", from Saint-Saphorin producer Louis Bovard. Further still, the catalogue lays out complete 3-course menus rather than mix-and-match items: 2 separate "Menus Bistrot" (each its own starter, main and dessert), an "All'Italiana" running bruschetta through tagliata di manzo, and a seasonal "Menu Printemps-Été". That structure, fixed seasonal menus built around named local producers rather than an open buffet list, is the part of the "gastronomique" tagline that actually survives contact with the catalogue.

No price appears anywhere in those 38 pages. That absence is normal for this category and would say nothing on its own, except that the site is explicit about what replaces it: the contact page asks for an email address and the specific venue a couple has in mind, from the same list of named properties, and promises the priced brochure back by return post. Pricing here is not withheld so much as routed through a per-venue quote, which at least ties the eventual number to a checkable list of places rather than an open-ended "contact us."

What the wedding page itself commits to

Stripped of the tagline, the dedicated wedding page is fairly narrow: a personalised menu built with "our team of experienced chefs" for either the couple's own home or one of the partner domains, explicit accommodation of allergies, intolerances and dietary restrictions, and a guest range pitched at "une cinquantaine ou une centaine d'invités", roughly 50 to roughly 100 people. There is no ceremony, registrar, or officiant mentioned anywhere on it, which is exactly right for a caterer: nothing here claims to marry anyone, and nothing needed correcting on that front.

The client testimonials on the homepage put real, dated weddings behind the venue list rather than leaving it as a catalogue of names. One couple married at Château d'Oron in November 2021; another at the Maison du Prieur in July 2022, the same month a third reviewer describes his daughter's wedding at "l'abbatiale de Romainmotier" on 16 July 2022, thanking "the chef" by role rather than name. A fourth review, from a client whose own "mariage civil" reception the caterer ran at home, is dated 11 April 2024, the most recent wedding-specific review on the page. Together they read less like handpicked marketing quotes and more like a business that has, in fact, cooked at the properties it lists.

Where a foreign couple would still be on their own

The site is entirely in French, with no English toggle and no claim, in either direction, about how the team communicates with clients abroad. Everything published about terms of business (a 30-day return window, Swiss-only delivery addresses, payment security language) sits in the general conditions for the online charcuterie shop, terrines, foie gras, pâté en croûte, sold as a separate retail line from the same site; none of it addresses deposits, cancellation, or a final-headcount deadline for an actual catering booking. A couple planning from outside Switzerland gets a real, checkable partner-venue network and a genuinely composed menu book to start from, but not a single published word on how the contract itself would work, and would need to ask for both a language commitment and the paperwork before signing anything.