To have a wedding in Paris?

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Me and df are wanting to get married in Paris. Has anyone got married here before, I'm looking on the internet for venues but it's so hard?

Anyone have any experience, we will only have about 100 guests. So nothing to big!?

Are you French? I wanted to get married in France but it's actually quite difficult, you have to have lived there for a certain amount of time before I think. We ended up getting married in Italy. So not helpful on venues but just thought I'd mention it!

No we live in England, I've read legally you can't get married but can have the vows and then the venue. We got engaged in Paris so are really set on it :(

You have to be resident in France for quite some time to be allowed to marry there.

My friends got the legal but done at the registry office in Dover then had their “wedding” in Brittany with friends. They use the celebration day as their anniversary

That's good, just didn't want you to be disappointed! It's such a beautiful city I'm sure someone will be along with venue suggestions soon.

Hoping so! Would be a lovely place to marry

You need to have an address in france

It might be an idea to get in touch with some wedding planners in Paris. We ended up using a planner in Italy despite my initial determination to do it all myself! She was amazing and worth every euro good luck

Got married in Paris in 2002 at the Marie in the 7th arrondissement. Dh and I are both British but lived there for a couple of years (we had met in Paris 5 years previously). Paperwork involved proof of residency for 3 months before we could set a date, also had to have medicals and blood tests (including HIV),, not sure if that's still the case.... I'm bilingual so language wasn't an issue but can imagine that if you don't speak French, it would be even more difficult. Wedding was fabulous (we hired an interpreter for non French speaking guests - ceremony was 100% in French), dinner the night before, late morning ceremony followed by 5 hour lunch and an evening reception on a boat moored by Notre Dame.... 40 guests.

Pics because it's a long time since I looked at them....

Most English people who ‘get married’ abroad do the legals in a registry office in the U.K. before they go so there is no need to tell OP she can’t have a wedding abroad because she isn’t fluent in French and isn’t a resident.

She was asking about getting married, not having a "ceremony".

most french couples have a seperate registry office ceremony anyway, as churches are not allowed to do legal marriages

I did actually get married in Paris, you do have to be there for at least something like 45 days beforehand with a tenancy agreement. We spent 2 months living there in an Airbnb but managed to get the tenancy agreement from the owner. We didn't have to have any blood tests or anything but had to do some paperwork at the British Embassy and pay for translated documents.

Legally you can only marry there at the town hall of the area you actually live in, luckily ours was an attractive building. We had to register to do it first and book a date, and our language skills tested by the people at the town hall. We don't really have any so they said we had to have an interpreter. Ours was pretty much an elopement, we had a few witnesses who were French people we had recently met! You're not allowed to use strangers off the street like some people do here, and have to register your witnesses in advance.

Sorry gone on a bit and yours is different as you want a venue, guests etc but that's the general set up if you wanted to do it legally. It was fabulous though and we got lovely pictures just going round on the Metro to various famous sites!

You have to be a resident. Even Kim Kardashian couldn't flout that rule.

Lovely pics @BradleyPooper