Just imagine for a moment, you’re in Paris with your boyfriend, who wanted to surprise you by chartering a private jet to whisk you off to Monaco for the day. While enjoying the alluring city of Monte Carlo and gazing onto the coastline, he has yet another surprise. He stands in front of you, takes your hands gently, stares into your eyes, goes down on one knee and asks, “will you marry me?” Could there be anything more romantic?
Back in France, another fairytale is about to come true in the most picturesque chateaux one could ever imagine. A bride walking down the aisle arm in arm with her father, looks around, and feels blessed by all the family and friends who were able to share in her big day. Staring into her soon-to-be husband’s eyes from a distance, she thinks to herself “my dream has come true.” How enchanting is this?
Photo by One & Only Paris Photography
These are two real stories from wedding and event-planning company Rendez-Vous in Paris has been a part of. Still growing in popularity are destination weddings for numerous reasons. Brides have said that it is actually less stressful and easier to plan a wedding out of town. Your guest list is smaller thus more intimate as many people cannot afford the time and money spent attending as a guest a wedding in another city or country.
Many couples end up extending their stay beyond the wedding as a honeymoon, while some guests often make this a vacation of a lifetime. However, there are challenges when trying to organize such an event out of town, so you call on the local professionals to help. If your wedding happens to be in France, you call only the best in the biz, Rendez-Vous in Paris.
With years of experience, they have nailed down the crème de la crème of the best venues, caterers, photographers, and the rest of the long list of needed things to make your day just perfect. “Planning a destination wedding is exciting but requires some knowledge of the destination and what is has to offer. Any wedding requires preparation, and with a distinctive destination wedding in France, there are language and cultural barriers as well as time differences,” explained by Heather Jerue, owner and founder of Rendez-Vous in Paris.
As you may imagine, Jerue has been privy to organize the most lavish parties, for people who’s names we cannot mention here though you would certainly recognize. Such over the top and unique parties are how clients want their event remembered. While extravagant weddings are a large portion of events they plan, they are not the only. The company does arrange other low-key parties for baby showers, businesses, bachelor (ette), and birthdays.
Bachelorette party you say? Do tell more! Jerue goes on describing the event she planned for this soon to be bride and her entourage as “a mix of chic and less classy. The day started with champagne mimosas, followed by a surprise ‘Drawing Atelier’ in a light filled studio where the girls had the opportunity to sketch a gorgeous naked male model. The group headed to a famous Parisian strip club, to learn pole dancing. Then the bride was taken to the spa, where she enjoyed the talents of the Dior Institute, the sumptuous spa in the Plaza Athenee Hotel. They went to the very chic Pershing Hall lounge for drinks, followed by a light dinner on a rooftop terrace, and some embarrassing karaoke in a dive bar, and finished the night in one of the most exclusive clubs in Paris.”
The tables will be turned on Jerue as she is now engaged to be married. Where oh where shall their wedding be? If we are all dreaming to travel to France for such a memorable event, where do they dream of going for the big day?
