Charlotte Aguillon

Charlotte Aguillon's own homepage names 2 jobs in its main heading: "Votre wedding planner et officiante de cérémonie," your wedding planner and ceremony officiant. Her business is called Pour le Meilleur, "for the better," the first half of the French wedding vow "pour le meilleur et pour le pire." But the site only turns one of those 2 roles into something a couple can actually book. The /prestations/ page lists a single product, "Cérémonie laïque sur-mesure," a made-to-measure secular ceremony, priced at CHF 1'800 plus an unstated travel fee. There's no separate wedding-planning package anywhere on the domain, no scope, no price, no description of what "planner" covers on its own. Whatever the title on the tin promises, the only thing you can actually price and book here is the ceremony.

What the ceremony process does do, though, is fold a planner's job into it rather than keep the 2 apart. She lays out 5 steps on that same page. First, a 2-hour meeting where the couple tells her their story, their memories, their habits, their private jokes. Second, she writes the ceremony text herself, "J'écris votre histoire," in her own words, with no mention anywhere of a second writer or a template. Third, and this is the step that says the most: she visits the wedding venue together with the couple, specifically, in her own words, to picture the ceremony there, talk through where things will happen, and work out the small technical details in advance. Fourth, the details get refined together: speeches from family and friends, music, rituals, the running order. Fifth, the day itself, which her page describes by saying the couple has exactly one thing left to do, live it. A celebrant who only shows up to read a script doesn't usually need to walk the venue with a couple weeks beforehand to plan sightlines and cues. Someone who's also thinking about how the day runs does. On her own account, the ceremony and the logistics around it aren't 2 services stacked on top of each other. They get worked out in the same conversations, by the same person.

Her own bio, on /qui-suis-je/, gives her path there directly rather than through someone else's words about her. She's 34, from Brittany originally and now settled in Switzerland, "adoptée par la Suisse," in her own phrase. Before weddings, she worked as a massage therapist and beautician, then as a legal assistant, and she writes that she has now spent 3 years in the wedding industry. She's based in Lausanne, which is also where the free first meeting happens, proposed on the contact page as a video call the couple books by writing in, rather than an in-person visit to an office.

9 testimonials, 5 weddings, and one that isn't in French-speaking Switzerland

The /mariages/ page names 5 real weddings from 2024, each with a venue and a date: Ariane & Brendan at Hotel Vitznauerhof on 21 September, Emmanuelle & Benjamin at Château de Cormondrèche on 7 September, Linda & Tristan at Le Clos de la République on 9 August, Micol & David at Château de Lucens on 3 August, and Nour & Fabrice at Domaine Pura Me Movent on 22 June. Separately, /vos-avis/ carries 9 short testimonials, credited only by initials, with no star ratings and no dates. 4 of the 9 match 4 of the 5 named weddings by initials; the other 5 thank couples who don't appear on the weddings page at all, which reads less like a gap in the portfolio and more like evidence that her actual client list runs wider than the 5 weddings she chose to publish. One of those testimonials thanks "Charlotte et Vincent" by name for the day; the site never explains who Vincent is anywhere on the pages fetched, so this isn't guessed at here. And the Vitznauerhof wedding is worth a second look on its own: it's on Lake Lucerne, in German-speaking Switzerland, while every other named venue on the page, Cormondrèche, Lucens and the rest, sits in a French-speaking canton. So she has crossed the language divide for at least one real booking, even though nothing else on the site says whether that's routine or explains how a French-only officiant handled a ceremony in a German-speaking region.

The real weddings and the styled photo sets sit on separate pages

A second gallery page, labelled "Shootings" in the navigation and reached at /creations/, is not client work. It holds 3 styled editorial photo sets, each credited to a different photographer at a different venue than any of the real weddings: "The Garden of Love" at Maison d'Igor, shot by La Perle Photography; "Douce romance" at Hôtel Le Tillau, shot by Camille Laurent; and "Prince & Princesse" at Château de Vaumarcus, shot by Mél Baierlé Photography. None of the 3 names a real couple or a date. It would be easy for a celebrant's site to blur styled shoots into a weddings page to pad it out. Hers doesn't: the real weddings and the staged ones are filed under different labels in the same main menu, so a reader isn't left to work out which 5 photos on /mariages/ were actually a wedding she officiated.

The whole site runs in French, ceremony included

Every page on the domain, home, about, services, weddings, testimonials, creations and contact, is French only. There's no language toggle and no English text anywhere on the site. For a couple planning from outside Switzerland who don't already work comfortably in French, that's the fact to take away plainly, not something to infer from a flag icon: a ceremony written and led by Charlotte Aguillon would be written and led in French. The first email, the video call, the 2-hour story-gathering meeting, the venue walkthrough, all of it would run in French, unless a couple raises another language directly in that first message and gets an answer the site itself never gives.

What "officiante de cérémonie laïque" does, and doesn't, claim

Her own title for herself, printed in the hero heading and repeated in the page's title tag, is "officiante de cérémonie laïque," an officiant for a secular ceremony. That's the only role the site claims for her anywhere. Not on the homepage, not on /qui-suis-je/, /prestations/, /mariages/, /vos-avis/ or /contact/ does the word Zivilstandsamt, Standesamt, état civil, or "legally binding" appear. That silence isn't an answer in either direction: in Switzerland a marriage becomes legally binding only when a civil registrar performs it, somewhere the canton has approved for that purpose, which is a fact about Swiss civil law rather than a claim her site makes or fails to make. Her page simply doesn't raise it, so a couple booking her should plan to arrange that civil act separately, through their commune or a cantonal registry office, rather than assuming the ceremony she writes covers it. She never writes that she marries anyone, and neither should a description of her: what she offers, on her own account, is the ceremony a couple writes with her and stands up for in front of their guests, not the legal signature underneath it.

What holds this listing together isn't the price, which sits in the ordinary range for a Swiss celebrant, or the steps, which several others in this catalog lay out in a similar shape. It's that her own site never actually separates the 2 roles named in its own title. The venue visit lives inside the ceremony-writing process rather than beside it as a second, unpriced service, and 5 documented weddings held between June and September of 2024 back up a practice that's actually running, not just a page describing one. A couple who need the whole thing to happen in English, or who want their legal paperwork addressed on the same page as the ceremony, won't find either here. A couple already working in French, with their civil act arranged elsewhere, gets a named person, a direct phone number, and an honest account of what happens between a first free video call in Lausanne and standing up in front of their guests.