The W. Day

The W. Day's own navigation never actually leaves French. Click "Eng" from the homepage and every link keeps its French path, /a-propos/, /portfolio/, /dites-vous-oui/, with a ?lang=en query string bolted onto the end. There's no separate /en/ site the way plenty of Swiss wedding agencies build one. That would normally be a small technical detail to note and move past. Here it matters, because the site addresses the gap directly rather than leaving a couple to wonder. On the About page, right after founder Gianna Grieco introduces herself, sits a sentence written for exactly the reader who just noticed the French-only menu: "You don't speak French … no problem … we organize your wedding !!" That's not a language toggle standing in for a promise. It is the promise, spelled out in the site's own words.

Grieco has run the agency, by her own account, since 2005, with "more than 20 years" of event-industry experience behind her by now. The site places her "Basée en Suisse Romande depuis 2005," based in French-speaking Switzerland since 2005, a region rather than a city. No Geneva, no Lausanne, no street address shows up anywhere on the domain, and there's no Impressum or legal-notice page to check one against. A wedding "in Lausanne" turns up exactly once, inside a client testimonial describing where that couple's own day happened, not where the company itself is registered. The honest version of her location is the regional one the site actually states, nothing sharper.

Morocco, Greece, Italy, the Maldives, and 8 weddings that actually happened

The About page pitches reach well beyond Switzerland's own borders, and it does it in specific terms rather than a vague "worldwide" line: "For couples who wish to romantically sneak off somewhere alone, or rather accompanied by their best man and bridesmaids or family and friends, for instance heading off to a charming spot in Morocco, to Italy to enjoy the dolce vita, to a Greek island or to a fabulous beach in the Maldives." Read closely, it's as much an elopement pitch as a full-wedding one: a couple sneaking off alone gets named in the same breath as one bringing the whole wedding party.

The portfolio backs part of that claim with named work rather than stock photography. It lists 8 entries, each a couple's initials set against a venue name: Hôtel de Rougemont, Château des Bois, Grand Hôtel du Lac, Château d'Estoublon, Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, Portes des Iris, Le Crans, and one that names its city outright, "C & A – ELOPEMENT, VENISE." Rougemont, Montreux and Le Crans put 3 of those weddings in French-speaking Switzerland; Château d'Estoublon sits across the border in France. The Venice elopement is the only portfolio entry that lines up directly with the About page's international pitch. Morocco, the Greek islands and the Maldives rest on that one sentence alone; nothing in the published portfolio backs them with a named job.

One relationship, not a named ladder of packages

Where most Swiss planners in this category sell 3 or 4 clearly labelled tiers, full planning against partial planning against day-of coordination, The W. Day's site never names one. There is no services page and no rate card anywhere on the domain. The page called "Dites-vous oui!," which reads like it might be a packages page from its name alone, turns out to be something else entirely: a vendor showcase fair Grieco runs at Portes des Iris, "a marvellous farm dating back to the 16th century," which its own page describes as "an alternative, chic, offbeat, friendly and intimate fair." It's a genuine, separate product, a trade fair where couples meet suppliers face to face, not a planning tier with a price attached. The page's own most recent listed date is its "next edition," Thursday the 8th and Friday the 9th of November 2018.

What the actual client work covers has to be read out of a testimonial, because the site never lists it as a service menu. Caroline and Nate, married in Lausanne in September, describe both halves of the job in one paragraph: months of "recommendations for vendors and taking care of the small details," then a wedding day where "Gianna made sure the program ran smoothly" and the couple "didn't have to worry about anything." That's full planning and day-of coordination both, delivered as one continuous relationship rather than 2 separately sold products. No flat fee, no percentage and no hourly rate appears anywhere on the site, including on the contact page, whose own enquiry form asks a couple for their budget range rather than quoting one back at them.

The site is just as quiet on the civil paperwork a foreign couple has to clear before a Swiss wedding. Nothing on the About page, the portfolio or the contact form addresses the preparatory legal procedure, a registrar, or which office handles it. That silence isn't evidence either way about whether Grieco helps with it; the site simply never raises the question, so a couple would need to ask directly rather than assume an answer from what isn't there.

A public record that stopped updating around 2018

The parts of the site built for booking, the About page, the portfolio, the contact form, read as current and are presented as live channels. The parts built for marketing don't match that. The blog carries exactly 1 post, "Couleur de l'année 2018," dated the 1st of February 2018 and last updated that June. The "Dites-vous oui!" fair page still lists its next edition in November 2018, with nothing later anywhere to replace it. The press page's own magazine coverage, 24heures, Se Marier magazine, Bilan Luxe, Mariage.ch, skews toward older Swiss titles rather than anything recent, though the specific covers shown don't carry legible dates worth repeating here. None of that amounts to a closure notice. The email address, phone number and enquiry form are all still presented as the way to reach Grieco, not as an archived contact page. But a couple weighing this listing against a more actively updated competitor should know that the blog and the fair haven't moved in years, even while the booking side of the site looks untouched by that gap.

Worth it if you're comfortable emailing first

The W. Day suits a couple who wants a single planner handling both the planning and the wedding day itself, is fine with nothing about price or process being published up front, and reads that English reassurance line as an actual invitation rather than boilerplate. It won't suit anyone hoping to compare named packages before making contact, or anyone who needs a same-day answer on the legal paperwork, since neither exists anywhere on the site to check. 20 years in the business and a portfolio spanning French-speaking Switzerland to Venice are real, checkable things. What happens after the first email, price, process, and how she actually handles a foreign couple's documents, is the part only Grieco herself can answer.