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Weddings at Gstaad Palace
Two celebrations in the Bernese Oberland, each built around the mountains rather than in spite of them.
Classic Elegance in Green and White
Venue: Gstaad Palace, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
Guests: 80
Duration: Three days
Programme: Welcome dinner, ceremony and reception, farewell brunch
Spaces: Ceremony lawn and the Baccara Room
Scope: Planning, design, floral design and stationery — all in-house
Photographer: kreativweddings.com
We began with the place
Gstaad Palace stands above the valley with the Bernese Alps on every side. A setting like this does not need to be transformed. It needs to be understood.
Our design worked with the architecture and the landscape rather than against them. Floral composition was used to frame the mountains instead of competing with them: a round arch left open to the ridge behind it, structures echoing the lines of the building, restraint wherever the landscape was already doing the work.
Planning, design, floral design and stationery all came from our atelier — one team, one point of contact, from the first conversation to the last guest.
Three days in the Bernese Oberland
The couple knew the region well and kept their own chalet nearby. Rather than build a conventional welcome reception, we arranged a private chef to cook for their closest family at the chalet — an intimate first evening, at home, before the wider celebration began.
Guest preferences were gathered in advance and passed to the Palace, and we placed personalised welcome bags in every room before arrival. Guests walked into a stay that had already been prepared around them.
In the hours between events, the programme was built around the people actually attending: paragliding for those looking for altitude, and a slow walk through the Bernese landscape accompanied by Bernese Mountain Dogs — a version of Switzerland that is genuinely local rather than staged for visitors.
On the day itself, we walked through every detail with the hotel's event and housekeeping teams, and our design team realised the ceremony setting and the Baccara Room as an atmosphere the rooms could hold.
"I feel as though I am standing inside a dream I created myself.
The room feels complete. I feel complete."
— the bride, on entering the Baccara Room
A Wondergarden in the Baccara Room and a warm green welcome dinner at Wasserngrat
Venue: Gstaad Palace, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
Guests: 160
Duration: Three days
Programme: Welcome dinner, ceremony and reception, farewell brunch
Spaces: Saanen Gstaad Church, Wasserngrat and the Baccara Room at Gstaad Palace
Scope: Conception, design, floral design and stationery — all in-house
Images: GAEA.DESIGN
The first evening, above the valley
The welcome dinner was held at the Wasserngrat, high above Gstaad. Here the language changed: still green and white, but arranged in the spare, deliberate manner of ikebana, where one stem is asked to do the work of ten.
Against the rough timber of the mountain restaurant we hung mirror balls. The contrast held because it stayed light — enough to catch the last of the evening sun, and nothing more.
On the wedding day the celebration moved from the church in Saanen to the Baccara Room.
A Wondergarden in the Baccara Room
The brief was a garden: green, dreamy, colourful, with a fountain at its centre.
The floor of the Baccara Room could not carry the weight of the fountain as first drawn, so it was rebuilt smaller — close enough to the original that no one in the room would have known it had ever been larger.
Around it, the flowers were allowed to be the only colour. Peonies, sweet peas, delphinium and garden roses ran the length of the tables and hung above them from the ceiling. Everything else — linen, candles, paper — stayed white and green, so the garden had nothing to compete with.
The dogs at the door
The couple's dogs greeted the guests. Painted in watercolour, they appeared first on the escort cards and again at every place setting — the only figures in a scheme otherwise made of green paper, white ink and flowers.
Planning for this celebration was in other hands. Conception, design, floral design and stationery were ours.
Gstaad Palace is among our closest venue partnerships. We work there regularly and coordinate directly with the hotel's event and housekeeping teams — which is why a three-day celebration at this scale can run without the couple ever seeing the mechanics behind it.
Not every project we produce here can be shown. Discretion is part of what our clients ask of us.
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