Château de la Chèvre d'Or wedding

Èze is a village on a cone of rock between Nice and Monaco, four hundred metres above the sea, with no road through it and a single lane climbing to the top. La Chèvre d’Or is not a building in that village so much as a stretch of it: a hotel assembled from the old houses along the rue du Barri, with gardens, terraces and a pool hung off the cliff on the seaward side.

The view is of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat lying in the water below, and it is the same view from almost every room.

The kitchen holds two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide under Tom Meyer, a Meilleur Ouvrier de France, and the hotel is a Relais & Châteaux member. That matters to a wedding here for a practical reason as much as a culinary one: no outside caterer is permitted, so the two stars are not an optional extra you might book for the Friday. They are the kitchen cooking your wedding dinner.

The hotel offers five spaces to a wedding, and none of them is a ballroom. Each one is a terrace or a room carved into the village, and their sizes decide the shape of the day.

Nothing here holds more than eighty-four people.

Where most ceremonies go. Daytime, no time restriction, up to 60 guests, and priced by the headcount: €2,000 to twenty people and €3,000 to sixty, with a band between them at forty. White Napoleon chairs are required at €25 each.

Two terraces, one above the other, taking up to 84 for a ceremony with the cocktail hour on the upper one. The hire is €3,000 and it comes with a condition: the two suites directly above the terrace have to be booked for two nights, which costs between €6,000 and €7,000 a night for the pair with breakfast included.

The panoramic terrace, up to 50 people, at €7,000. It is the most expensive ceremony space in the hotel and the only one that also works as a cocktail terrace in its own right.

The panoramic bistronomic restaurant, and the only room in the hotel where music and dancing are allowed. Thirty people fit on its terrace. From thirty-one to 84 the dinner moves inside and the restaurant has to be privatised, on a minimum food and beverage spend of €8,000 at lunch and €15,000 at dinner.

The private room of the two-star restaurant, seating 24 at two round tables or sixteen at one long one. There is no privatisation fee above twelve guests. There is also no music of any kind beyond the restaurant’s own background sound, which makes this a room for a wedding lunch or a small dinner rather than an evening.

Almost every question a couple has about this hotel resolves into one question: is there a dance floor. The hotel prices the two answers very differently, and the difference is not the music but the neighbours.

The hotel’s own minimum is modest. One room booked for two nights, a ceremony space, and at least one food and beverage service to go with it. Acoustic music is permitted in Les Remparts until midnight, which in practice means a jazz trio, a strolling band or a pianist through dinner.

This version of the day is a ceremony on a terrace at six, a cocktail hour above the sea, a long dinner in the restaurant with live music, and guests going back down the hill by midnight. For forty or fifty people it is a complete wedding and it is what the setting is actually built for.

At 40 to 60 guests it lands around €100,000 all-in.

A DJ or a band changes the arithmetic. Dancing is allowed only in Les Remparts, the restaurant must be privatised for dinner, and the fourteen rooms surrounding it have to be booked for two nights because the noise carries straight into them. That block is just over €64,000 with breakfast, and it is not negotiable.

The fourteen rooms are two Tradition rooms, a Junior Suite, four Executive Suites, five Prestige Suites, a Royal Suite and the Nietzsche Suite. They sleep roughly thirty people, so they house the families and the wedding party rather than sitting empty, which softens the number without changing it.

With the block, the privatised dinner and the extra hour to 1am, a wedding here at 70 to 80 guests lands near €250,000.

A La Chèvre d’Or wedding starts from €100,000 and lands near €250,000 all-in for 40 to 80 guests.

The hotel sells parts rather than packages, so here is what each part costs.

€2,000 to €3,000 in the gardens depending on numbers, €3,000 on the Rose Terrace plus the two suites above it, or €7,000 on the Café du Jardin terrace. Chairs are €25 each on top. The hire covers the space and nothing else: no celebrant, no music, no furniture beyond the chairs and no flowers.

Cocktails run at €45 per person per hour without champagne and €60 with it, with canapés at €3.80 a piece and five pieces suggested for an hour. Dinner in Les Remparts is €125 or €150 a head for three or four courses, with beverage packages at €90 or €125. In the two-star restaurant a four-course dinner is €270 and six courses €320, with beverages from €95 to €150.

Children and suppliers eat at €65. There is an organisation fee of €700 covering the hotel’s own coordination of the day.

The fourteen-room block at just over €64,000 for two nights, the €15,000 minimum spend on the privatised dinner, and €1,000 for the extra hour to 1am. Those three lines are the party, and they arrive together or not at all.

The flowers, which have to come from the hotel’s own florist and from nobody else. The photography, the transfers up and down the corniche, the celebrant, the rooms for everyone not in the fourteen, and the wedding cake, which the pastry kitchen makes and outside bakers are not permitted to supply.

La Chèvre d’Or holds two Michelin stars and runs from April to late October, which is the reason the wedding season here has the shape it does. Les Remparts is the bistronomic sibling, panoramic, open wider, and the room your wedding dinner will actually be in above thirty guests.

The menus move with the market and are finalised about ten days before the event, so a tasting well in advance tells you about the kitchen rather than about your menu.

Lunch in Les Remparts is €100 a head and in the gastronomic restaurant €180, which is the cheapest way to put a small wedding in front of two Michelin stars.

Nine categories, from the Tradition room at €850 a night to the Panoramic Suite at just over €5,000, with the Nietzsche Suite between them. Breakfast is included for the couple and for every guest staying in the hotel on a wedding booking. City tax is €4.69 per person per night and an extra bed is €70.

Rates exclude the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, which in late May takes the whole eastern Riviera out of contention.

The hotel is small and a wedding does not empty it, so the fourteen rooms around Les Remparts are the practical block and everything beyond that goes into the village or down the hill. Èze-Bord-de-Mer, Beaulieu and Cap Ferrat are all inside fifteen minutes and hold considerably more rooms at considerably more price points.

The hotel is on the rue du Barri in Èze-Village, in the Alpes-Maritimes, above the Moyenne Corniche between Nice and Monaco.

Monaco is 13 minutes and Nice 18. Nice airport is 29, Antibes 44 and Cannes 47, so the eastern half of the Riviera is close and the western half is a journey.

Nice is the only airport that makes sense at 29 minutes, and Nice-Ville station is 20 for guests arriving by train. The corniche is slow in July and August and the run from the airport can double at the wrong hour on a Friday.

The hotel has no car park. Every guest arrives by taxi, transfer or minibus, is set down at the top of the village, and walks the last stretch on foot along a lane that is medieval and steep. For a guest list with anybody elderly in it this is a real piece of planning rather than a detail, and it is the single thing couples underestimate here.

Drones are forbidden across the property and in the village of Èze, so aerial footage is not available at this venue.

The fourteen rooms are the decision. Everything else at this hotel is negotiable in the ordinary way, and that condition is not: if you want a DJ, you take the block, and the block costs more than most complete weddings in Provence. Couples who understand it early choose the hotel on purpose. Couples who meet it late feel ambushed by it, which is why it is the second paragraph on this page.

The honest question is whether the party belongs here at all. A Chèvre d’Or wedding without a dance floor is still a two-Michelin-star dinner above the Mediterranean for fifty people with a jazz trio playing, finishing at midnight, and for a lot of guest lists that is a better evening than a nightclub on a cliff. We have run both. The quieter one photographs better, because the setting is doing the work rather than competing with a sound system.

The third thing is the rain. There is no covered alternative for any ceremony space in this hotel, and the brochure says so in plain language on its second page. On the Riviera in May or September that is a small risk rather than a negligible one, and the answer is a decision tree agreed in advance rather than a marquee, because there is nowhere to put a marquee.

Then there is the arrival. No car park, a village lane, and eighty people who have to be moved up a hill in sequence rather than all at once. We schedule it in waves with a holding point at the bottom, and it is the part of the day that most repays rehearsal.

Magic Day plans weddings at Château de la Chèvre d’Or from the first conversation to the final farewell. That means the choice between a wedding with a party and one without, the fourteen rooms and whether they are worth it, the ceremony terrace and the suites attached to it, the privatisation minimums in Les Remparts, the symbolic ceremony and the mairie paperwork behind it, the room block down the hill, and the transfers up a village lane with no car park at the end of it.

We have worked the Alpes-Maritimes for years, with an office in Nice. Tell us the dates you are considering, how many people, and whether there is dancing, and we will tell you what the weekend comes to.