Wedding photographers in Annecy

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   The wedding room on the avenue des Îles

   In the commune déléguée of Annecy, civil weddings take place in the Salle Yvette Martinet, 15 avenue des Îles, which seats 80. Weddings are held every day but Sundays and public holidays, Saturday afternoons included from April to October (in winter, one mairie at a time, on a rota); the town sets the hour. Hand in the file two months to a year ahead, and bring two to four witnesses.

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   The old town’s churches

   The parish of Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal brings together the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, consecrated in 1539, Notre-Dame-de-Liesse, Saint-Maurice and the community of the Basilique de la Visitation on the hill above town. Its rule is that a wedding is celebrated in the parish where you usually live, with registration by September for the following year — so couples from abroad start with their own parish.

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   The abbey at Talloires

   A Benedictine priory from 1018 on the lake’s eastern shore, a hotel since the late 19th century. Its gardens host both secular and religious ceremonies, and the guests can stay the night.

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   The Château de Menthon

   Above Menthon-Saint-Bernard, a castle whose first fort dates from around 923. It takes receptions of up to 120 guests in its 17th-century cellar, with marquees possible on the terrace.

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   On the lake

   The Compagnie des Bateaux du Lac d’Annecy, sailing since 1886, hires out its boats in part or in whole for a wedding or a wedding reception. The Libellule, the only restaurant boat on the lake, takes 25 to 250 guests.

Annecy has no dry season. Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals for Annecy-Meythet give 95 to 110 mm of rain in every month from May to October, on roughly 9 to 12 days; average highs are 20.3 °C in May, 24.2 °C in June, 26.5 °C in July and 21.3 °C in September, and July is the sunniest month. Three dates fill the town: the international animation film festival (13–19 June 2027), the Fête du Lac fireworks on the first Saturday of August — 7 August 2027, before nearly 200,000 people — and the Retour des Alpages, when the herds come down from the pastures, on the second Saturday of October.