Why the Ritz, Paris is the most genius place for an engagement

But a particularly luxuriant and romantic mood is at play in its bathrooms. Marcel Proust loved the hotel so much that he was at the opening back in 1898. (There’s a suite and salon named after him.) And when you flick the gold-swan taps of the huge marble tubs, it’s like plunging into the author’s dreamscape. You can imagine him pouring in a generous amount of the Ritz’s bubble bath, which has a strong scent of magnolias – they majestically grow in the Grand Jardin here – and…