The 10 best wedding venues in Chur

Venue hire across Switzerland generally falls between CHF 500 and CHF 8,000, with a room comfortably seating 70 landing around CHF 1,000–5,000, and food and drink adding roughly CHF 120–300 per guest. A 60–80 guest wedding in Graubünden usually totals somewhere between CHF 25,000 and CHF 55,000 once flowers, music and photography are included. City rooms such as pur.lokal or B12 sit at the lower end of that; an exclusive buy-out of stettli, or the full estate at Schloss Reichenau, sits at the top. For a concrete anchor, Restaurant VA BENE publishes its own planning figures at CHF 50 a head for the apéro and from CHF 70 a head for a multi-course dinner, before wine.

Yes, but only a civil ceremony before a registrar has legal effect in Switzerland — a church, symbolic or venue-based ceremony does not, on its own, marry you. If neither of you lives in Switzerland, the registry office where the wedding will be held runs the preparatory procedure (Ehevorbereitungsverfahren), and you can begin it through a Swiss embassy or consulate; birth certificates and single-status certificates must be originals less than six months old and may need an apostille. Once the procedure closes, the marriage has to happen within three months, so finishing the paperwork too early causes problems. Many overseas couples instead complete the legal marriage at home and treat the Chur day purely as the ceremony and celebration.

For Chur itself, the Zivilstandsamt Region Plessur handles the ceremony at the Rathaus, Poststrasse 33. Ask the office directly for its current ceremony room, its weekday slots and how many Saturday dates it releases, because Saturdays are limited and go first; a date is only confirmed in writing once the preparatory procedure has closed. Since the ceremony room is fixed, plan on moving the party to a separate venue afterwards, and start on the venue at the same time as the registry office rather than after it. The one way around the two-address day is to marry outside the city: the Imboden registry office conducts civil ceremonies inside Schloss Reichenau.

Chur has around 40,000 residents and its venues reflect that — most rooms top out between 60 and 100. Above 150 the realistic list is short: the Saal at Marsöl (60–350 seated, up to 700 standing), the Brandissaal at B12 at 200, and Schloss Reichenau outside the city, which reaches 200 by combining six rooms. Restaurant VA BENE stops at 150 even with the whole restaurant taken over, and pur.lokal at 180. From September 2026 there is also AREON, a new event hall on the Obere Au run by Stadthalle Chur AG with room for up to 6,500 — built for concerts, congresses and trade fairs rather than weddings, so it would have to be fitted out from scratch.