Wedding Venues in Bern and the Bernese Oberland
The Bernese Oberland is where couples come for the mountain wedding they pictured: Grindelwald, Wengen, Muerren, Adelboden and Gstaad, with the Jungfrau wall behind the photographs and a cog railway carrying the guests. Lower down, Thun and Interlaken sit between two lakes and hold the larger hotels and the lakeside castles, while Bern itself offers city hotels and event halls. Beyond the city, the Emmental and the Seeland add castles and a country inn at prices well under the lake resorts. Altitude changes the season here more than anywhere: a May date at 1600 metres is a different event.
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Palacestrasse 28, Gstaad · since 1913
One of 42 hotels on the Swiss Deluxe Hotels roster, with a separate wedding contract that vets your florist and prices extra servers by the hour.
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Höheweg 41, Interlaken · since 1856
Interlaken's 216-room grande dame, with a Michelin-starred kitchen, a 5,500 square metre spa and enough beds to sleep a flown-in guest list under one roof.
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Alpinastrasse 23, 3780 Gstaad · since 2012
An independently run 5-star hotel in Gstaad whose Six Senses Spa carries a separate international brand, with a wedding package built as a full 2-night property buyout.
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Untergstaadstrasse 17, 3780 Gstaad · since 1912
A 1912 Gstaad hotel whose wedding page, private-events page and PDF brochure each name a different set of venues, at capacities that don't quite agree.
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Bahnhofplatz 11, Bern · since 1859
A 165-year-old 5-star hotel at Bern's own train station, part of the Bürgenstock Collection, with 1 named ballroom and 2 priced wedding packages.
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3855 Brienz
The operator's own arrival page names 4 routes to the hotel; the historic boat-and-funicular route it promotes for guests runs to a printed timetable, not a couple's clock.
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Schlossgasse 4, 3653 Oberhofen
A detailed fee schedule prices every room by the hour, itemises every extra, and bans balloons and confetti anywhere on the castle grounds.
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Five-star superior spa hotel in Lenk im Simmental with outdoor ceremonies for up to 120, banquets for 100, 83 rooms and a mountain restaurant on the Bühlberg.
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Schlossstrasse 16, 3700 Spiez
2 summer ceremonies redirect to a branded Winter Wedding each November, while a separate civil ceremony books through Thun's registry office on 12 fixed Fridays year round.
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Harder Kulm, above Interlaken (registered address Blattenweidweg 56, 3818 Grindelwald)
A panorama restaurant above Interlaken, booked through the railway group's own ticketing site, its contact address broken the same way on every page that prints it.
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Swiss Alp Resort 1, Grindelwald
A family-owned 5-star Grindelwald hotel with a 190-guest ballroom, run day to day by a general manager while the owning family married in Las Vegas.
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Seestrasse 45, 3600 Thun
A lakeside castle whose wedding page recommends 3 ceremony settings, though only the canton's registrar performs the one that is legally binding.
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Höheweg 211, Interlaken · since 1874
An 1874 grand hotel on Interlaken's Aare riverfront, built around one Belle Époque ballroom for weddings and a cluster of small meeting rooms for everything else.
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Galliweidli 1440E, 3823 Wengen
Beaumier's only Swiss hotel amid a French and Spanish portfolio, where the wedding contract runs on Swiss law even as the group's own press line and paperwork stay French.
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3823 Kleine Scheidegg · since 2019
A mountain restaurant on Kleine Scheidegg, 2,061 meters up with no road access, whose own banquet document names the photographer, florist and stylist it recommends couples bring.
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Schönriedstrasse 74, Saanen-Gstaad
The largest conference hotel in the Gstaad region sells a wedding alongside reunions and team-building sessions, with no price and no ceremony details published anywhere.
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Spirenwaldstrasse 351, Beatenberg · since 1881
A resort whose own copy claims Europe's longest village and the Bernese Oberland's only private IMAX cinema, one confirmed independently, one impossible to check
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Park and event venue on the Gurten, Bern's local mountain, reached by funicular, with five wedding spaces from 40 to 350 seated guests, an outdoor ceremony option and two rooms for the couple.
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Schlossgässli 1, 3400 Burgdorf · since 2020
A working youth hostel, museum and civil-registry venue share one 800-year-old building, where Zivilstandsamt Emmental marries couples on 12 dates a year in the Schiltensaal.
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Dorfstrasse 7, Adelboden · since 2010
A 72-room Adelboden design hotel that prices its wedding-eligible space room by room, from a 19-square-metre Clubroom to the full event wing, with no age restriction.
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CH-3717 Blausee-Mitholz · since 1878
A working nature park with paid admission wraps a 21-room grand hotel and its own trout farm around a wedding day in the Kandertal.
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Bellevuestrasse 15, 3715 Adelboden · since 1901
A 14-point GaultMillau kitchen, but the only wedding mention on the site sits inside a banquet menu shared with birthdays, Christmas Eve and corporate dinners.
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Schlossberg Thun
NewFormer prison and court on Thun's castle hill, now an event venue with civil weddings, wedding parties, a January wedding fair, a hotel and a restaurant.
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Strandbadstrasse 44, Interlaken · since 1857
A congress and exhibition centre in central Interlaken that books a wedding through the same rooms, loading ramps and terms of business as a trade fair or a concert.
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Seestrasse 47, Thun
A 91-room conference hotel on Lake Thun whose wedding brochure still borrows its flagship hall, its indoor ceremony rooms and its booking inbox from the seminar side of the business.
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Renovated hotel on the Aare in Thun with seven function rooms, a rooftop, an Aare terrace facing the castle, a winter garden and four room categories for wedding guests.
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Freimettigenstrasse 9, Konolfingen
A 16th-century Emmental castle whose park hosts a touring, priced sculpture show this wedding season, 2 named Swiss artists, works up to CHF 85'000
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Doldenhornstrasse 26, Kandersteg · since 1976
One family runs two Kandersteg hotels under one domain name; the wedding is sold from Doldenhorn while Ruedihus keeps the only room actually named for one.
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Adults-only vintage hotel on the Höheweg in Interlaken with a panoramic sixth-floor roof terrace, a wine cellar, banquet menus and rooms for every wedding guest.
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Dorfstrasse 85, Grindelwald · since 1899
A 4-generation Grindelwald hotel whose only wedding mention sits on one banquet page for up to 90 guests, present in English and French but absent from the German original.
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Wasserngrat, above Gstaad, Saanenland
A family running this mountaintop wedding restaurant above Gstaad also runs the village pub down in Saanen, the same phone number and web developer credit appearing on both sites.
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Dorfstrasse 88, Adelboden
An 18-plus, 22-room Adelboden hotel that only takes weddings as a full-house buyout, with its meeting rooms, gym and children's pool sent next door to sister hotel The Cambrian.
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Schachenstrasse 43, 3700 Spiez
A trademarked 6-value Seed of Life philosophy that shows up once, on the homepage, and nowhere in the wedding page, the rooms, the restaurant or the guest terms.
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Private waterside hotel and event venue in the Seeland with a ceremony tent, terrace, banquet hall, private disco, a hotel for up to 20 and a drinks-inclusive wedding package.
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Traditional Swiss restaurant in Thun, part of Hauenstein Hotels, with a Stübli, a 200-year-old attic room, a garden terrace for up to 120 and menus built to order.
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Historic inn and business hotel in Steffisburg near Thun with 45 rooms, banquet halls for weddings of up to 120 in rows, and BeO-Catering for weddings at other locations.
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Garden event venue in Säriswil, a few minutes outside Bern, with an orangery, meadows and woodland, a wood fire at night and a wedding inquiry form that includes an on-site ceremony.
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Family-run wedding venue in Einigen with a rustic event hall, A-to-Z planning, catering, flowers and decoration, and celebrant-led ceremonies, winner of a Swiss Wedding Award in 2024.
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Industrial-style event venue on the Geissgasse in Interlaken, about 200 m² for up to 150 guests, with its own kitchen, sound and light, a terrace and wedding planning help.
Frequently asked questions
Can I host a large wedding where all my guests stay in the same hotel?
Yes, several large hotels in the Interlaken area offer significant room counts. The Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa has 216 rooms, while the Carlton-Europe Hotel also provides rooms for every wedding guest.
Are there venues that offer full planning and decoration services?
Die Bühne is a family-run venue in Einstein that provides A-to-Z planning, including catering, flowers, decoration, and celebrant-led ceremonies. Die Stahlbude in Interlaken also offers wedding planning help.
Where can I find a venue for a civil ceremony?
Burgdorf Castle is a civil-registry venue where the Zivilstandsamt Emmental performs marriages in the Schiltensaal on 12 specific dates each year. You can also find on-site ceremony options at bloomeventhaus in Säriswil.
What options are available for industrial or rustic style weddings?
Die Stahlbude is an industrial-style venue in Interlaken with a 200 square metre space and a terrace. For a more rustic feel, Die Bühne offers a rustic event hall in Einigen.
Is it possible to have a wedding in the mountains above the valleys?
You can choose mountaintop options like Bergrestaurant Wasserngrat located above Gstaad. The Grand Hotel Belvedere Wengen is another choice located in the Wengen area.