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  1. A little history of the Parisian café
  2. A Parisian café elopement: the vibe
  3. Our elopements on a café terrace

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Parisian Café Elopement

Capture the charm of Paris through its café. It's also one of the best ways to enjoy the city of love, sitting on a café terrace, drinking an espresso or a café au lait. Don't forget to order some croissants or French pastries!
paris elopement wedding cafe

If you decided to come to Paris for your elopement, the streets of Paris provide the perfect backdrop for open-air terraces and golden cups of coffee. Maybe Paris isn’t just the city of lights, but also the city of coffee?

Capture the charm of Paris through its café. It’s also one of the best ways to enjoy the city of love, sitting on a café terrace, day dreaming, drinking an espresso or a café au lait. Don’t forget to order some croissants or French pastries!

Cute cafe & cute couple in Paris
Cute cafe & cute couple
Couple sitting at a cafe terrase

The Parisian terrace: one of the city’s most iconic, romantic images. It is so iconic and romantic, in fact, that in 2018 the city requested UNESCO to recognize the terraces in Paris on its world heritage list! The idea is that these cafés and terraces bring people together and nurture a creative, artistic community, and they also support the idea of joie de vivre (lust for life) that is so intrinsically, delishly French. As wedding planner and photographer in Paris we always recommend our clients to shoot their engagement photos in one of our favorites cafes in Paris

A couple holds hands over coffee and croissants at a café table, with an engagement ring visible
Cafe at the corner of street with haussamanian building
Bride and groom sit at a Paris street café, sharing coffee and a newspaper in soft daylight

A little history of the Parisian café

Paris has lived around its cafés for more than three centuries: Le Procope, often called the oldest café in the city, opened its doors in 1686. Writers, painters and philosophers made the cafés their salons and offices.

Today the café terrace is still the heart of every neighbourhood: a few chairs facing the street, a red awning, an espresso, and all of Paris passing by.

A Parisian café elopement: the vibe

A Parisian café is not a landmark, it is a feeling. Two cups of coffee on a little round table, croissants still warm, the clink of glasses and the morning light on the terrace: it is joy, ease and romance, the Paris you fall in love with.

We plan a café stop into your day as a pause between the ceremony and the portraits: a moment to breathe, to toast, and to be photographed simply being yourselves, the way Parisians live.

Our elopements on a café terrace

  • A bride and groom lean forehead to forehead at a Paris café table, holding white wine beside pink roses in warm light
  • Bride and groom kiss outside Le Bistrot de Paris on a Paris street, her bouquet at her side
  • Bride and groom in sunglasses sit at a café table on a Paris street with a bouquet and soft daylight
  • Bride and groom hold hands over a red café table with coffee, a croissant, and soft flowers
  • A bride and groom toast at a Paris street café in warm light, beside flowers and pastries
  • Bride and groom clasp hands over tea cups and flowers at a marble café table in soft light
  • Bride and groom lean close at a Paris café, holding drinks by a red table with flowers
  • Bride and groom in sunglasses sit at a Paris café table with flowers, pastries and warm window light
  • Bride and groom kiss and lift on a Paris street in warm light beside a corner café

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