Forum des Vignes

Book anything at the Forum des Vignes, a wedding apéritif, a company assembly, a birthday lunch, and one term on the tariff sheet does not move: whatever wine gets poured has to come from the estate's own list. "Les vins consommés au Forum des Vignes viennent uniquement de notre assortiment," the price page states. "Aucune dérogation n'est possible." No exception is possible. That single non-negotiable line is the clearest fact on the whole site about what this address actually is. It isn't a wedding venue that happens to sit among vines; it's a wine estate's function hall, and a wedding is one more booking on the same sheet as everything else. The contact page addresses both identities together, listing the reservations line under "Forum des Vignes - Cave de Mazembroz," the hall and the cellar sharing one phone number and one inbox.

Two rooms, 70 people and 35, though the tariff sheet's own total disagrees

The descriptive page for the building lists one room holding 70 people, "extensible à 90 pers. environ" (extendable to roughly 90), and a second, separate room for 35. Both share a fully equipped kitchen, and outside there's a lawn and garden of roughly 1,000 square meters, parking large enough for coach buses, step-free access and a washroom built for reduced mobility. That's a hall built to hold a crowd, not a boutique venue running a handful of suites.

The tariff page complicates the arithmetic. It splits the building into a small room, the Caveau, seating 30 people for CHF 200, and a "Complète" rental, the whole venue, at 120 people for CHF 400. Add the two rooms named on the descriptive page, 70 and 35, and the total comes to 105; stretch the larger room to its 90-person maximum and the two together reach 125. Neither matches the 120 the price list quotes for renting everything at once. The site never reconciles the two figures itself, so a couple planning around a headcount is better off treating 120 as the number tied to an actual price, and confirming the room split directly before booking.

Two ways to book, and one rule that applies to both

The site lays out exactly two paths to using the hall. The first is a fixed-price package built around a specific kind of gathering, and the wedding version of it sits on the same list as a raclette dinner or a plate of Valais charcuterie. The second is a bare room rental, the Caveau or the full venue at the prices above, with the house-wine obligation attached regardless of which path a couple picks. Either way, the space has to come back clean, exterior, lawn and washrooms included, by 8:00 the following morning, and any equipment that's missing or damaged gets billed at cost. None of that reads as wedding-specific care; it's the standard terms attached to renting a hall for an evening, whoever is renting it.

CHF 600 for the wedding apéritif, CHF 52 for raclette, same tariff sheet

The wedding package itself, the "Forfait Apéritif de Mariage," costs CHF 600 flat, and the site spells out exactly what that covers: the room rental, the setup, service of the drinks, and cleaning afterward. It sits on the same price list as a Forfait Raclette (from 15 people, CHF 52 per person, including an apéritif, a Valais-style starter with rye bread, raclette served to taste, dessert, coffee, mineral water and wine), a Forfait Brisolée (also from 15 people, CHF 40 per person, covering wood-fire-roasted chestnuts, 3 kinds of alpine cheese, 2 of them from Fully itself, dried meat, rye bread, apples, grapes, apple tart, coffee, must, mineral water and wine), a plain Assiette Valaisanne at CHF 22 per person, and a group wine tasting priced on request, wine alone, wine and bread, or wine, bread and cheese. Nowhere does the wedding line get its own page, its own heading, or a price built any differently from the rest. It's a package alongside packages, costed the way a raclette night is costed.

Reservations go to one mobile number, not a department

Under "Pour des Réservations" on the contact page, the site lists one mobile number and one email address, nothing else. There's no events department, no named coordinator, and no description of who runs the hall day to day; the site's footer credits a web designer, St. Carron, for building it in 2019, which says nothing about who owns or operates the venue. A couple books this the way they'd book a room from a small supplier for a conference: one call or one email, working out a date and a package directly with whoever answers, rather than moving through a dedicated events process.

Thirty-five photos of past parties, one labelled for a wedding

The site's layout-examples page carries 35 photos of past room setups, and their filenames tell their own story. Most are unedited camera-roll names and timestamps, spanning roughly a decade from a June 2014 shot to an August 2024 one, the kind of file a phone or a compact camera assigns on its own. Exactly 1 image in the set carries a name written for the occasion, "Deco-mariage," wedding decoration. Another is filed simply "caveau," a shot of the smaller room. It reads like a working hall's own photo dump rather than a styled wedding portfolio, which fits everything else the site says about how this address gets used.

The vineyard, the cellar and the apricots are each "page en construction"

Three of the site's other sections point at what's supposed to surround the hall: Les vignes, the vines that give Mazembroz its name; La cave, the cellar behind the wine poured at every package on the tariff sheet; and Les abricots, the orchard side of the property. Open any of the three and the same line appears: "Page en construction." The estate telling its own story is unfinished, even as the room-rental and catering pages are fully priced and ready to book. Nothing about weddings shows up anywhere else on the site, either: no wedding-planning service, no mention of English-speaking staff, and no English version of the site at all, only French. For the foreign or English-reading couple this tenant serves, the practical result is that the venue itself, priced and bookable as it is, offers nothing beyond translation to help with the legal side of a Swiss wedding. Switzerland only recognizes a marriage performed at a civil registry office; wherever the reception happens, the Forum des Vignes included, that's the celebration around the legal act, not the act itself, and this site never addresses the distinction because it never addresses anything legal at all.

A reception booked like a raclette night, not a wedding

Add it up and the Forum des Vignes reads exactly as its own paperwork describes it: a multi-purpose hall on a Fully wine estate, priced by the person and the package regardless of the occasion, run by whoever answers one mobile number, and bound above all else to selling its own wine. That suits a couple who already have a celebrant, a plan for the legal ceremony elsewhere, and no objection to raclette or brisolée as the reception menu, and who want a working Valais hall with a lawn and a kitchen for the party that follows. It does less for a couple hoping for a dedicated wedding team, English-language planning help, or a venue that treats the day as anything other than one more booking on the same sheet as a company assembly or a birthday lunch.