Elodie Villemus Weddings

Scroll to the bottom of Elodie Villemus Weddings' page for its "Geneva Agency" and the contact block gives a single address and a single phone number: 289 chemin des cades, 84740 Velleron, Provence, France, and +33 (0)4 90 33 17 96. That is the same block that closes every other page on the site, the Provence and Riviera pages included, and it is the only address or phone number this specific page publishes anywhere on it. A couple landing here looking for a Switzerland-based planner would find a French one.

That is not the full story, though. Elsewhere on the site, on its own Contact Us page, a footer lists 5 separate agency addresses rather than a single one, and the fourth block reads "SWITZERLAND & PORTUGAL AGENCY | WEDDING PLANNER, Rue du Livron 33, 1217 Meyrin, Suisse, +41 768 44 50 06." Meyrin is a real commune in canton Geneva, next to the airport, and that phone number carries a genuine Swiss country code, not a French one. The person behind it is named on the Our Story page as Ricardo Nunes, "Senior Wedding Planner, Switzerland, French Alps, Portugal," and he is the same person the Geneva Agency page introduces by first name only, "Hello! I am Ricardo," describing himself there as "Director of the Swiss agency Elodie Villemus Weddings," trained "in Geneva's most prestigious palaces" and, in his own words, supporting an international clientele for more than 5 years. A genuine Swiss office does exist behind this listing. The page built to sell it to a Geneva-marrying couple simply does not say where it is.

Elodie Villemus Weddings itself is older and bigger than either page alone suggests. Its Our Story page dates the group's founding to 2008, when Elodie Villemus opened her first agency, and its own timeline explains how Switzerland entered the picture: in 2022, "the agency is expanding with a team of Wedding Planners and Designers to cover France, Switzerland and Portugal." The group now counts 5 agencies (the Provence, Riviera and Corsica desk; Bordeaux; Paris; Ricardo's Switzerland and Portugal desk; and a separate Occitanie, Provence and Paris design-only line), and its own homepage counters claim more than 1,500 couples and more than 1,500 weddings planned and designed since 2008 across that whole group, not scoped to Switzerland or Geneva specifically.

Planning and design, sold as 2 products, not a menu of tiers

What the agency actually sells splits into 2 named services rather than a ladder of full, partial and day-of tiers. Wedding Planner runs across 4 stages the site spells out in real detail: Organisation (quotations and contracts, the annual and wedding-day schedule, budget tracking, hotel and transport arrangements for guests), Production (vendor management, site visits, proposing tents, flooring, sound and lighting, then coordinating setup and dismantling), Design (mood boards, an artistic concept, 2D or 3D layout plans) and Coordination (welcoming vendors and guests, a presence the day before for final checks, running the wedding day itself and the brunch after). Wedding Design is sold as a separate product, for a couple who wants the visual concept, the decor sourcing and the on-site styling without buying the rest of the planning workload. Neither a partial-planning package nor a stand-alone day-of coordination service is named as its own product here; coordination is the last stage of full planning, not something bought on its own. The only team-size figure on the site is offered as a scaling example rather than a fixed rule: its commitments section puts the team for an 80-guest wedding at 1 project manager and 2 coordinators, with availability described as 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No page anywhere on the domain states a fee, whether flat, percentage-based or hourly, and none gives a minimum guest count or a minimum spend.

What "Switzerland" looks like in the portfolio

The Our Wedding Venues page lists 9 venue types the group works across (chateaux, villas, estates, private beaches, chalets, Provence houses, hotels, lakes, and manors, pavilions and farmhouses), but that index runs across all 5 agencies and is not filtered to Switzerland. The Swiss-specific material sits in 4 separate portfolio entries: Wedding in Geneva, Wedding in Switzerland, Chalets: Wedding in Geneva and Castles: Wedding in Switzerland. All 4 share the identical publish date, August 26, 2022, the same year the Key Dates page marks as the Swiss expansion, and all 4 read as venue-type marketing copy rather than a documented single wedding. The Chalets entry describes what a chalet ceremony can look like in general terms, a lay ceremony in the snow, a cocktail in the lounge, dinner in the dining room; the Castles entry does the same for a chateau. The closest thing to a specific event is the Wedding in Switzerland entry, which opens "Discover the wedding of M & T, in a Bastide with character in Switzerland" before dropping into the same general language as the rest. A Bastide is a Provencal farmhouse style, an odd term for a page selling a wedding on Swiss soil, and the site never explains it. None of the 4 entries names a venue, a town or a guest count. Judged only against its own portfolio, this listing shows the kind of Swiss venue the agency can work with, not a specific, documented one.

A ceremony service that only loads in French

The site also sells a wedding-celebrant service, reachable from the main navigation, but the page renders entirely in French even at its own /en/ address: "Officiante de Ceremonie," covering the writing of the ceremony, coaching the people who will speak, choosing music and rituals, liaising with other vendors and being present on the day to check the sound and the space. Nothing on that page, or on any English page linking to it, claims legal or civil authority for whoever runs the ceremony. That matters directly for a couple marrying from abroad: a marriage is legally binding in Switzerland only when a civil registrar performs it, and that registrar can only officiate somewhere the canton has approved. A couple booking this celebrant service should plan on a symbolic ceremony and arrange the legally binding act separately, through the relevant Swiss civil registry office. Across every page read for this listing, the site is also silent on Switzerland's civil preparatory procedure for a non-Swiss couple, the apostilled documents and certified translations a foreign couple has to assemble before a registrar will marry them. Given how specific the rest of the site is about what it does and does not include, that particular silence reads as a real gap for exactly the reader this tenant serves.

Ask for Ricardo, not the Geneva contact form

For a couple set on Geneva or the wider Lake Geneva region, Elodie Villemus Weddings offers the working method of a French planning house that calls itself nearly 20 years old and now runs 5 agencies, rather than a Swiss specialist's own local address book: a director trained in Geneva's palaces, a clean split between full planning and design-only work, and a team-scaling formula the site is willing to put in writing even where it will not put a price. What is not there yet, on the evidence of the site itself, is Swiss-specific proof: a named venue, a dated real wedding on Swiss soil, or a page that actually connects the Geneva branding to the Meyrin office running it. The fix for a couple interested in this agency is simple: ask on the first call to be routed to Ricardo directly rather than the general Geneva enquiry form, and raise the civil paperwork and the legal-versus-symbolic ceremony question yourself, since the site will not raise either one first.