Wedding Venues in Eastern Switzerland
The least expected corner of the country for a wedding, and the quietest: Appenzell's painted farmhouses and open pastureland, St. Gallen with its old abbey quarter, and Lake Constance running along the German and Austrian border, shared by all three countries. Venues here tend to be working farms turned event spaces or lakeside properties looking out over water that technically belongs to three flags at once. It's a smaller, quieter alternative to the Bernese Oberland or Lucerne for a couple who wants the rural Swiss look without competing for the same handful of well-known venues every summer weekend.
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Dorfstrasse 40, 9108 Gonten
A wedding hall in Gonten built from Appenzell moon wood, with the region's other named traditions kept to a separate page and a separate building.
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Alt St. Johann, Toggenburg
The ecumenical Lukas-Kapelle offers a priest or a pastor on request, and rents free only when the couple also books an apéro or dinner with an overnight stay.
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Osterfingen, Schaffhausen · since 1584
A protected 1584 wine-press hall above a Schaffhausen vineyard village, where the actual wine press now stands outside as a courtyard display.
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Unterwasser, Toggenburg
A Herzog and de Meuron summit restaurant at 2,262 meters, reached only by cable car, where the operator sells a tour of its own architecture alongside 3 wedding packages.
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Lerchenfeld 9, 9601 Lütisburg Station
A rooftop terrace above Lütisburg with a named indoor fallback for bad weather, though its own wedding-page photos turn out to be AI-generated rather than real.
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Obere Seestrasse 60, Ermatingen · since 2021
A single 1956 motor ship in Ermatingen harbor that a couple charters whole, with one crew, one price list and one kitchen, not a fleet of interchangeable vessels.
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Dozwilerstrasse 12, Hefenhofen
A working smallholding's barn in Thurgau that sells only an all-inclusive wedding package and publishes no price anywhere on its site.
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Steinerstrasse 501, Diessenhofen · since 1455
A Rhine-side Gasthaus with a room sized for 24 guests, but a wedding enquiry form and contract that both set the guest count at 60.
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Rathausstrasse 1, 8570 Weinfelden · since 1550
A Weinfelden guesthouse dating to 1550 that files weddings under its Bankett and Seminar menu, the same room, the same contract, one wedding-specific fee.
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Freier Platz 10, Schaffhausen
A Schaffhausen restaurant on the Rhine that treats a wedding like any other booking, CHF 2,000 minimum spend, no room rental, six menus from CHF 88 to CHF 125.
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St. Gallen · since 1983
A 4-star superior business hotel in St. Gallen's old town sells weddings as a priced, documented package, not a scenic backdrop, 6 minutes on foot from the station.
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Wildhaus, Toggenburg
A family-run village hotel in Wildhaus, reached by road or postbus rather than cable car, with an indoor backup built into the same building for bad weather.
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Warth, Thurgau
A working Carthusian monastery estate in Thurgau with its own farm, winery and brewery, hosting weddings from 10 to 250 guests.
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Romanshorn, Lake Constance
A 19th-century granary on Lake Constance, leased and run by a ferry company, that rents three bare event floors and sources catering itself because the building has no kitchen.
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Marbach, St. Gallen
A Rheintal castle restaurant where a wedding menu at CHF 50 a head or more waives the room fee outright, no rental charged on top.
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Arbon, Lake Constance · since 2013
A family-run boutique hotel-restaurant in Arbon's old town whose own wedding page sends couples to Schloss Arbon for the ceremony and covers the reception, kitchen and rooms after it.
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Schwägalp, Appenzell · since 1935
The cable car operator's own wedding packages still sell a ride to a 2,502 meter summit restaurant, months into a rebuild that has grounded the lift since May 2026.
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Arbon, Lake Constance
A city-owned castle on Lake Constance renting a dedicated civil-ceremony room and a separate reception hall, priced and permitted by the municipality's own fee ordinance.
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Eschenz, Thurgau
A stock company on the Untersee that runs weddings inside its own seminar and event hotel business, where full-day exclusivity from other bookings costs CHF 2'000 extra.
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Laufen-Uhwiesen, Rhine Falls
A Canton of Zurich landmark above the Rhine Falls where day-visitor ticket machines share the wedding's own courtyard, and the district's civil registrar can marry couples in the Bleuler Hall.
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Roggwil, Thurgau
A restored medieval tower near Lake Constance where a wedding moves room by room, from a 25-seat chapel and vaulted cellars up to an 80-seat baroque hall.
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Kreuzlingen, Lake Constance
A restaurant-run castle inside Kreuzlingen's 2.5 km public lakeside park, owned by the city since 1958, where full-day exclusivity buys the building but not the park around it.
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Rorschacherberg, Lake Constance · since 1557
A Bio Suisse Knospe and Demeter certified castle hotel on Lake Constance, organic down to the staff wages, deliberately plain rather than polished, seating up to 120 for a ceremony.
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Romanshorn, Lake Constance
A Lake Constance shipping company where the captain can marry you at anchor, though not legally, and where guest capacity depends on which of two fixed sailing programs you book.
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Wildhaus, Toggenburg
A family-run hotel above Wildhaus that markets itself as a gourmet address, not a design one, next door to an architect-built sound hall it doesn't own.
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Hagenwil, Thurgau
A moated castle in Thurgau whose day-to-day business is a restaurant, Wasserschloss Gastronomie AG, that also caters weddings for up to 200 guests.
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Heerbrugg, Rheintal
A working vineyard estate near Heerbrugg with a detailed wedding package and cancellation schedule that never once mentions its own autumn harvest.