DJ-Mariages

Most wedding DJ sites describe their equipment as "professional sound and lighting" and stop there. DJ-Mariages' own prestations page does the opposite. It lists the rig piece by piece, brand names included: amplis sono pro, a system QSC amplified rig, a GIGBAR Moove from Chauvet, doubles lyres, LED and laser pars, a smoke machine described as "pulsed," and a Pioneer mixing desk it calls "dernière génération." That level of itemisation is unusual enough among the suppliers on this tenant that it is worth building the write-up around, and checking it against everything else the operator publishes.

DJ-Mariages.ch was created by DJ-Event, a Geneva collective the site's own history page describes as working across French-speaking Switzerland and into neighbouring France. The two brands share more than an origin story. The footer copyright on every page reads DJ-Event, the contact address on file is DJ-Event's, and the direct email is info@dj-event.ch rather than anything at the dj-mariages.ch domain. Booking here means booking through the parent company, not a separately run wedding division. The whole site is French only, and nothing on it claims to run a booking, a contract or the day itself in English. A couple planning from abroad who needs that should ask before they sign rather than assume it.

Three packages, defined by who plays when

DJ-Mariages prices three tiers on its tarifs page and states the figures outright, which is worth noting since most wedding suppliers on this tenant price on request and publish nothing. The base package is a solo DJ for the whole event at CHF 1'450.-. It includes a full sound system with a second rig available for an outdoor aperitif or a separate room, the complete light show (LED pars, laser, "Mushrooms," double lyres), ambient LED colour-wash for the room, a wireless microphone and the smoke machine, a planning meeting before the wedding, a backup DJ on call for a genuine last-minute emergency, and 50 km of travel with no separate fee. Standard hours are printed as 17h to 2h00, so the flat rate assumes a five o'clock start and a two a.m. finish; the site does not say what happens outside that window.

Adding a saxophonist moves the price in two steps rather than one. Sax for the aperitif only runs CHF 2'000.-; sax across the whole event runs CHF 2'300.-. Both are billed as carrying "the same features as the base all-inclusive package," so the increase buys the second performer and nothing else changes in the equipment or the meeting process.

What the duo and the musicians actually play

The DJ & SAX page pitches the sound in stages rather than one genre: loungy and jazzy through the aperitif, "deep cool" for the cocktail hour, electro and pop once the dance floor opens. The saxophonist is described as improvising over whatever the DJ is mixing rather than working from a fixed setlist, and the page backs that with three streamed sax covers, of "Skyfall," "Memories" and "Again and Again," which reads as film and pop material rather than jazz standards.

For the meal, a separate musiciens page offers a different menu: a solo pianist, or rarer combinations like DJ-plus-guitar or DJ-plus-violin, indoors or outside, described as "jazzy or groovy" with original covers rather than straight tribute playing. A full live band is also listed as an option, though the site gives no detail on its size or repertoire, so a couple wanting a band specifically would need to ask what "groupe" actually means in practice.

A photographer bundled in, priced on request

The prestations page pairs the music with a named photographer, Marlène, who also runs her own site at photobymarlene.ch. Her own page on dj-mariages.ch talks about a preference for natural light and starting with a coffee or aperitif meeting so a couple gets comfortable with her camera before the wedding itself. The pairing is called "Package DJ & Photographe," and it is available, in the site's own words, "sur demande": named and offered, but not priced, unlike the three DJ tiers above it.

The same page lists further add-ons on the same informal basis, none of them priced: a photobooth through a partner site (easyflash.ch), a professional magician, decor and colour-matching for the room, custom jewellery through a French partner (petitaetgroscailloux.fr), and a dedicated microsite for the wedding itself, carrying information before the day and a photo gallery afterward.

The Mandarin Oriental claim, dated two different ways

DJ-Mariages backs its Geneva and Lausanne claim with two long lists of named venues rather than a vague "we cover the region." The Geneva list runs from Château de Penthes and Château du Crest through La Ferme du Lignon to hotels including the Four Seasons des Bergues, the Kempinski and the Jiva-Hill Resort. The Lausanne list adds the Beau-Rivage Palace, the Lausanne Palace, the Trois Couronnes in Vevey and the Musée Olympique. A separate references page widens the net further, into Château de Bossey, the Domaine Impérial in Evian, and French Haute-Savoie venues like Les Tresoms and the Abbaye de Talloires in Annecy, alongside corporate names such as Kuoni Voyages, Swiss Airlines and the Palexpo boat show.

One claim from that list is worth flagging rather than repeating as fact. The Geneva page states DJ-Mariages was the Mandarin Oriental's "prestataire officiel" (official supplier) for 2016 through 2019. The references page names the same hotel and the same title, but gives 2015 through 2018 instead. Both statements sit on the operator's own site, and neither corrects the other, so the underlying relationship with that hotel looks real but the exact years it covered do not.

Bertrand and Fred, thanked by name at Hôtel Préalpina

The temoignages page carries a single written testimonial in its static content, from a wedding at Hôtel Préalpina dated 22.07.2023: a short note thanking "Bertrand" and "Fred," the two performers, and signed by the couple Kevin and Charlotte. It is a thin sample on its own; whatever else sits behind the page's photo and video galleries did not come through as readable text. What it does establish is that the DJ-and-sax pairing was still booking and performing at a named venue in 2023, years after the "2017" sitting in the site's footer copyright line, which is the only thing on the site that might otherwise make a couple wonder whether it is still active. The sitemap itself was last touched in October 2025, so the footer date is an old template string, not a sign of a dormant business.

A couple hiring here should go in expecting a French-language process unless they confirm otherwise directly, a booking routed through DJ-Event's own contact details rather than a dedicated line, and an entertainment or photography add-on that only gets a price once they ask. Set against that, the core offer is unusually well documented for a wedding supplier on this tenant: three real prices instead of a quote request, a named piece of gear for every part of the rig, a defined travel radius and service window, and a venue history specific enough that most of it can be checked rather than taken on faith.