Jan Euskirchen (Liebe Hoch 2)

Jan Euskirchen's site does something almost nobody else in this category manages: its English page is a real, separately coded page, not a translation plugin's overlay. The <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en"> tag on /en/wedding-planner-switzerland/ points straight back at the German homepage, and the two pages carry matching, independently written copy rather than one being a stub. For a tenant built for couples marrying in Switzerland from abroad, that's worth stating plainly before anything else, because most of the sites in this catalog simply don't bother.

It's also worth being precise about what that English page is selling first. His own headline order gives it away: "Hochzeitsplaner, Trauredner, Tätschmeister", wedding planner listed before celebrant and before master of ceremonies, and the English version repeats the same hierarchy, calling itself "wedding planner, celebrant, master of ceremonies" run from one contact. This is not a dedicated officiant's page with planning bolted on. It's a full-service wedding planner's business, Liebe Hoch2 Weddings (branded Love Square Weddings in English), where Jan performs the ceremony himself as one line of a broader offer that also covers vendor selection, budget control, décor and on-the-day coordination. Both language versions also lead with the same claim: "Swiss Wedding Award 2024" in 2 categories, Wedding Planner and Freie Trauung (Independent Wedding Ceremony), which the site describes as "the Gault-Millau distinction of the Swiss wedding industry." That's his own characterisation; nothing here was checked against an outside source for the award itself, but the detail is identical word for word across both languages, which is more than most self-reported awards on comparable sites manage.

He didn't start out planning weddings, or leading them. His own About page, in near-identical German and English versions, describes years working as a theologian inside the Swiss church, a role he found increasingly at odds with what he wanted to do: baptisms and weddings were only permitted "in exceptional cases," and he writes that his faith grew "wider, freer and more open" until, in 2018, he broke with the church to work independently. The way he tells it, the first ceremony he ever led came from a favour, not a business plan: a friend asked whether he'd perform a non-religious wedding for a couple who didn't want a church wedding but felt a bare civil registration "felt soulless." He said yes. The result was a ceremony in a castle, with Spanish guitar and a solo singer, built around a ritual with bread, honey and salt, his own words call it a symbol for "the sweet and the challenging salty days" of a shared future. That's a specific, sourced origin story rather than a generic one, and it's confirmed independently in both languages rather than translated once and copied.

What a ceremony with him actually involves is unusually well documented for this category. It starts with a free, no-obligation "Kennenlerngespräch," in person or by video, to check the fit. If that goes ahead, the real work is a 2 to 3 hour "Traugespräch," a long conversation covering how the couple met, what defines the relationship, and which rituals and music they want; he also offers to speak with friends and family for material the couple might not think to mention themselves. His own hour-by-hour breakdown of the job puts total preparation at 25 to 30 hours, with 7 to 10 of those spent specifically writing, editing and rehearsing the speech itself, and he's explicit that nothing is templated: every ceremony is drafted fresh from that conversation. A week before the wedding there's a shorter update call for last-minute changes; on the day, he's on site an hour before the ceremony to set up sound and brief everyone involved, and an hour after for teardown. Afterwards the couple gets the finished speech as a PDF.

A 30-minute Klassische, a 45-minute Deluxe, and 6 named rituals

The site names 2 ceremony tiers outright rather than leaving everything to a quote. "Klassische Trauung" runs about 30 minutes and bundles the whole process above: the intro call, the Traugespräch, the update call, a personalised speech, a run-of-show script, a mobile sound system with headset and wireless mic, and the finished speech as a PDF afterward, plus a voucher from an unnamed partner. Travel for this tier is capped at one line: "nur SBB Spartages-Billet 1. Klasse", a first-class Swiss rail saver ticket and nothing else, which is a more concrete travel policy than most celebrants in this batch publish at all. "Deluxe Trauung" runs about 45 minutes and adds a certificate in a gold frame, a more elaborate ritual with materials the site prices at roughly CHF 100, and personalised ritual texts, for 2 extra hours of prep. A third add-on, a bilingual ceremony across German, English, French or Italian with smooth switching between them and an optional printed speech handout in both languages, sits on top of either tier.

The ritual menu itself is named rather than gestured at: a sand ceremony, a Celtic handfasting, planting a tree together, a wine ceremony sealed with love letters that the couple reopens on their 10th anniversary, a ring-warming where guests pass the rings around with a silent wish each, and an exchange of sealed love letters. 6 distinct, described options, not a single "personalise your ceremony" line.

2 current pages price on request; one older post names a figure

Here the site disagrees with itself, and it's worth stating rather than picking a side. The actual booking pages, the FAQ on /freie-trauung/ and the parallel /trauredner-schweiz/ page, both answer "what does it cost" the same way: price depends on distance and scope, contact him for an individual quote, no number given. But a dated blog post, "Freier Trauredner in der Schweiz," published 5 April 2025, states a figure nowhere else on the site does: a market range of "CHF 1 500 und CHF 2 500" and his own "transparente Pakete ab CHF 1500." That post is older than the current package pages and reads like earlier marketing copy that was never reconciled with the newer, quote-only funnel. Whichever is current, it does put him in the same rough band other celebrants in this catalog have quoted directly.

There is one hard, current, unhedged price on the whole domain, but it's for a different service. His separate Tätschmeister (master of ceremonies) page lists two named packages: a "Basis-Paket" at CHF 1500 for 8 hours of on-the-day coordination, and a "Premium-Paket" at CHF 2500 for 12 to 14 hours with multiple planning meetings and full moderation of the celebration. His own FAQ there confirms he regularly combines the two jobs for one couple, leading the ceremony and running the rest of the day. Book him as your celebrant and there's no published figure; book him as your Tätschmeister and there are two.

The freie Trauung has no legal weight, and his own FAQ says so

This matters for a foreign or destination couple more than almost anything else on the page. Jan's own FAQ states it without hedging: "Ist eine freie Trauung rechtlich bindend? Nein, eine freie Trauung hat keine rechtliche Wirkung," a freie Trauung is not legally binding. Switzerland's rule, correctly reflected in that answer, is that a marriage becomes legally valid only once a civil registrar performs it, and a registrar can act only somewhere the canton has approved; his FAQ points couples toward that separate civil step, which it says can happen before, after or on the same day as the ceremony Jan leads himself. He never claims otherwise anywhere across the pages checked for this listing, and he never uses the word "marry" for what he does himself; he calls himself a Trauredner, a celebrant, and describes the ceremony as the emotional and festive frame around a couple's own, separately arranged civil marriage.

A 2026 German footer, a 2025 English one, and a mislabeled About link

None of this changes the substance above, but a couple reading closely will notice a few loose threads. The German homepage's footer reads "© 2026," while the English page's footer, on the same domain, still reads "(c) 2025." The two language versions also disagree about whether the site's "Swiss Wedding Magazine" feature is already live: the German homepage phrases it as something to click through and read now, while the English page says the same Anthea and Onurcan feature is "scheduled for publication in the summer of 2026." And the German-language main-menu item "Über mich" (About me) actually links to a page that's written entirely in English; its real German counterpart, with the same castle and bread-honey-salt story, sits at a different, unlinked-from-the-menu address. None of that is disqualifying, a lot of small business sites carry exactly this kind of seam, but it's the kind of detail worth knowing before you assume every page on the domain says the same thing.

One more genuine inconsistency, in the Impressum rather than the marketing copy: the quick contact line repeated on several service pages gives the street address as "Striegelstrasse 33D, 5756 Safenwil AG," while the formal Impressum section, a few lines further down the same pages, gives the identical street and house number under postal code 5745 instead. Both figures come from the operator's own site; neither this listing nor its evidence file tries to resolve which one is correct.

Booking Jan Euskirchen means booking the planner first

None of this is a reason to hesitate. The recent, dated testimonials (a wedding in September 2024, others naming real venues like Schloss Laufen and the Hotel Restaurant Vogelsang in Eich) show a business that's actively working, and the process he describes, hours of conversation before a word of the speech gets written, a stand-in network for the day he can't show up, a fixed and modest travel policy, is more thoroughly documented than most single-service celebrants manage. What a couple should walk in understanding is the shape of the business: Jan is a wedding planner who happens to write and deliver exceptional ceremonies himself, not a dedicated officiant who occasionally helps with logistics. If what you want is a single point of contact handling the venue search, the vendors and the vows together, that structure is the whole point. If you only want the ceremony, you're still hiring the planner, he just happens to be very good at the other half of the job too.