Getting ready at the Ritz

Getting ready at The Ritz hotel in Paris, place Vendome is a wonderful way to begin your day when you are getting married! Paris may have older hotels, but in terms of glamour, it all starts here. Coco Chanel lived here for thirty years, Pamela Harriman clocked innumerable laps in its pool, Edward VII was one of its first guests, and Guillaume Escoffier was one of its first chefs. Needless to say that the Ritz bar is named after Mr Ernest Miller Hemingway.
Even today, the Ritz is larger than life. The bathrobes are the same shade of apricot that founder Cesar Ritz believed to be so fetching for the complexion. Ladies are served a long-stemmed rose with their drinks. And concierge Gerard Avez is a familiar face to anyone who was a guest in the days of Charlie Chaplin and Chanel, when Avez himself was a bellboy.