Wedding Venues in Valais
Valais is where a foreign couple's mental image of Switzerland actually lives: Zermatt below the Matterhorn, car-free by rule and reached only by train from Täsch, where the road for ordinary cars stops; Verbier and Crans-Montana further along the same string of resort towns; the Rhône valley running below them all, vineyard slopes on one side, orchards on the other. For a destination wedding this is rarely an optional stop; Zermatt in particular is one of the two or three places a couple names before they've even opened a venue list. What it costs in travel time for a guest list flying in from further afield, it pays back in a backdrop nobody else at home will have seen at a wedding.
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Rue de Médran 70, Verbier
A Marriott W Hotels resort in Verbier running weddings through the Bonvoy booking system, with three combinable event studios and a stated capacity of 180 guests.
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Ernen-Mühlebach (Goms) · seit 2018
A small, family-run mountain hotel at 1,777 metres in the Goms, reached by a tolled forest road, a taxi or a 500-metre hike, hosting weddings for up to 130.
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Riedweg 156, Zermatt · seit 2009
A Zermatt resort built as 7 separate chalets around a car-free village, reached by train, with room to sleep up to 120 across them for a wedding party.
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Chemin des Mayens de Saclentse 10, Haute-Nendaz · seit 1929
A family-run rental chalet near Haute-Nendaz that sleeps 28 across 9 bedrooms and leaves catering, the chapel booking and guest transport to the couple.
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Route de Magrappé 49, Veysonnaz
A family-run Veysonnaz hotel whose wedding menu comes only from its own kitchen, with three salons holding up to 150 guests and no English wedding page.
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Route de Nendaz 1, 1950 Sion, Valais
A working Sion winery rents 4 function rooms for weddings up to 130 guests, supplies house wine and drink staff, but publishes no on-site accommodation.
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Martigny
A 13th-century fortress above Martigny bars private cars and wheelchair access, hosts a civil-registry-approved ceremony for 30, and reaches guests on foot, by tourist train or by taxi.
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Montée du Château 19, 3960 Sierre, Valais · seit 1908
A Valais foundation, not a company, owns this 1908 château above Sierre and privatizes it whole for one wedding party at a time, hosting 10 to 70 guests.
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Chemin des Mûres 40, Fully
A rentable multi-purpose hall on a Fully vineyard estate, its wedding aperitif package priced on the same tariff sheet as raclette and a wine tasting.
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Bahnhofstrasse 55, 3920 Zermatt, Valais · seit 1879
The Burgergemeinde-owned grand hotel in Zermatt since 1879, formal and traditional, hosting weddings for up to 180 guests near the village church.
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Route des Zirès 14, Crans-Montana · seit 2009
A hotel whose Residences half stays privately owned, while its 6 bookable apartment-suites, 225 square meters each, are what a travelling wedding party can actually rent.
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Crans-Montana · seit 2014
A 1960s gondola station converted into a 16-room hotel at 2112 m, reachable only by lift or on foot, with reception space for up to 150 guests.
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Rue du Pas-de-l'Ours 31, 3963 Crans-Montana, Valais
A 4-star Crans-Montana conference hotel with a genuine wedding operation, a dedicated brochure, a 200-guest banquet room and a Michelin-starred wedding menu from its sister hotel.
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Route de la Combaz 19, Crans-Montana
A 3-star Crans-Montana hotel built for mountain biking rather than weddings, with a 2-sentence wedding page, 60 rooms, and no published wedding price or guest count.
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Haute-Nendaz
A 4-star ski hotel in Haute-Nendaz whose Carnotzet restaurant closes each summer, though the spa, the other restaurant and its event spaces keep running through the off-season.
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Torrentstrasse 197, 3955 Albinen · seit 1988
A family-run restaurant and small hotel in Albinen, Valais, seating around 75 to 80 for a wedding, with rooms from CHF 69 per person, not a resort's scale or price.
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Rue de l'Ehannoun 10, Crans-Montana
A family-run Crans-Montana hotel whose catering travels off-site, with a 107 square metre event room, seasonal opening months, and no kosher or halal catering.
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Route du Signal 22, Champex-Lac · seit 1938
A family-run lake hotel in Champex-Lac renting its dining room, terrace and bar for weddings, with 25 rooms on site and no venue-hire price published.
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Rue Marconi 19, 1920 Martigny
The hotel that is also Vatel Switzerland's hospitality school, with a working kitchen and pastry lab behind its wedding offer, and questions its own pages don't answer
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Alpage de la Marlène, Verbier
A restaurant above Verbier in the hills of Savoleyres, priced and menued like dinner, with terraces holding up to 120 guests but no road up beyond a summer-only drive.
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Impasse Crouvalor 6, 3961 Chandolin, Valais · seit 1897
A 50-room former hotel near 2,000 m in Chandolin, rented whole or by floor for self-catered weddings, sleeping up to 137 in a village of a few dozen residents.
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Route du Centre Thermal 16, 1913 Saillon, Valais
A public thermal-baths resort in French-speaking Valais where the Pierre Avoi room turns exclusive only for a Saturday wedding of 120 guests or more.
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St-Luc, Val d'Anniviers
A funicular-only lodge above St-Luc where the wedding package prices your guests' rides up the mountain the same way it prices a bottle of wine you bring yourself.
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Zermatt · seit 1884
A five-star resort at 2,222 meters reached only by the Gornergrat railway, with two on-site chapels, 70 rooms and suites, and weddings limited to its published seasonal opening windows.
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Riffelberg, Zermatt
A 25-room mountain hotel above Zermatt, reachable only by cogwheel train, sold for weddings exclusively as a full-hotel buyout with its own chapel next door.
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Winkelmattenweg 96, Zermatt
A family-run restaurant and small hotel in Zermatt that hosts weddings on a food-and-drink minimum spend, not a fixed venue fee, with outside vendors booked directly.
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Wildistrasse 101, 3908 Saas-Balen, Valais · seit 1906
A private 14-room chalet above Saas-Fee, reached by a 15-minute forest walk, booked whole for one wedding party at a time, sleeping up to 48.
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Dorfweg 1, 3906 Saas-Fee
A 5-star Relais and Chateaux hotel in car-free Saas-Fee, with an event hall for up to 300 guests and 73 rooms for the days either side of the wedding.
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Route d'Anzère 70, Anzère
A former campsite turned into 17 self-catered chalets near Anzère that rents its restaurant and outdoor event space for weddings, with no dedicated wedding page.