Kilian Raetzo

Kilian Raetzo's own site organises his work under 4 tabs in the main menu: Coaching, Zeremonie, Musik, Events. A wedding ceremony is one branch of one of those 4, and clicking into it does not lead to a booking page on his own domain at all. The Zeremonie page splits into 3 occasions, Hochzeit (wedding), Taufe (baptism) and Abschied (farewell), each with a short paragraph and a button that sends the visitor off-site: the wedding button, "HOCHZEIT MIT HERZKRAFT," goes to his profile on traumich.ch, a shared officiant platform; the baptism button goes to bienvenida.ch; the farewell button goes to amanos.ch. His own site puts all 3 of those links directly in front of a couple who has just clicked "Hochzeit," confirming the cross-listing itself rather than leaving it to be inferred.

That structure matters for a couple deciding whether to write to him, because the substance of what a ceremony with him actually involves, how many meetings, who writes the vows, which rituals he will or won't include, is not published on kilianraetzo.ch at all. None of it appears on the Zeremonie page, the About page, or anywhere else on the domain. It only shows up on the traumich.ch profile his own site links to, where he describes himself in the first person as "der Fels in der emotionalen Brandung" (the rock in the emotional surf) who "holds and shapes the frame" in which a couple can say their yes, and states he brings "the experience of over 200 weddings" to that role. Traumich's own site brands itself, on that same profile page, as "Freie Hochzeitszeremonien," free wedding ceremonies, the standard term for the personalised kind booked alongside a couple's separate civil act rather than instead of it. Kilian's own site never mentions a registrar or a civil ceremony either way, so that branding is the clearest signal available, not a claim his own site makes about him directly.

His formal training sits on the About page, under a "Weiterbildungen" (further training) heading, and the one line naming a body specific to ceremony work reads "Trauerredner & Gestalter von Abschiedsfeiern - Zeremonien-Akademie, Bern." That is training in giving funeral eulogies and designing farewell ceremonies, not a wedding-specific qualification, and the distinction is worth holding onto: nothing on the site names a training body for officiating weddings as such. His other listed further training runs to leadership and coaching (Coaching-House, Bern), large-group facilitation (Art of Hosting, at the SPES Zukunftsakademie), and project design, alongside base qualifications in organisational development and coaching (IAS, Bad Ragaz), intercultural project management (IKF, Lucerne) and social pedagogy (BFF, Bern). The same page lists 2 yoga-instructor certifications, Vinyasa Flow and Hatha, both 200-hour RYT, which back the "Yoga" strand of his work rather than anything ceremony-related.

The About page also carries the line behind his stated international reach: describing himself as "founder and supporter of various initiatives for change," he says he is active "in der Schweiz, in Indien und in Südafrika," in Switzerland, India and South Africa. It sits inside a paragraph about his broader path, "over 20 years" across "wisdom traditions of East and West," not inside anything about weddings, and neither his own site nor the traumich profile ever claims he travels abroad to lead a ceremony. Read for what it actually says, that's evidence of a well-travelled personal history, not of a wedding-officiant service with an international footprint. A couple planning a destination wedding in Switzerland should read it as background on the person, not as a claim he'll fly out to conduct the ceremony wherever they are.

German by default, English only on request

Every page checked on kilianraetzo.ch, Zeremonie, About, Contact, Coaching, Music, is German only. There's no English toggle or translated version anywhere on the domain, and a couple relying purely on his own site would be right to plan on German. His traumich.ch profile adds a layer his own site doesn't: it lists his languages as Berndeutsch and Schriftdeutsch (standard German), then English, with French and Spanish, all three marked "auf Anfrage," on request. So English is on offer, by his own listing, but it sits in the same tentative category as French and Spanish rather than being named a routine working language. The practical read for a foreign couple: expect the ceremony and the planning conversation to run in German unless you raise English early and confirm it works for the specific day and the specific ceremony he'll write.

What he prices, and what he doesn't

The Coaching page is the one part of the site with real numbers attached to a service. A short session, 30 to 120 minutes, runs 130.-/h; an intensive package, a minimum of 3 sessions of 2 hours each, runs 110.-/h; a longer "Auszeit" format is offered with no fixed rate given. That he prices coaching openly makes the silence elsewhere more pointed: the Musik page offers 3 styles of singalong and closes every one of them with "more info and bookings on request," no figure attached to any. Weddings get the same treatment on both his own site and the traumich profile: no price, no package tiers, no deposit or minimum stated anywhere either site publishes. If cost matters for planning, budget for a conversation before a number.

Over 200 ceremonies, no price list, and German unless you ask

Kilian Raetzo isn't a dedicated wedding celebrant running a business built around ceremonies. He's a coach and former ski, snowboard and climbing instructor whose personal site treats ceremony leadership as one line among several, coaching, yoga, campfire singing, and whose actual wedding offering runs through a shared platform rather than his own booking system. What that platform adds is concrete: a stated tally of over 200 weddings led, a first-person account of what he brings to the day, and a home base in Aarau. What neither site adds is any account of process, how the ceremony gets written or how many conversations that takes, any published price, or any claim about legal status, which his own site is right to stay quiet on rather than guess at. For a couple who wants the ceremony run in English as the default, or a fixed figure before a first call, this isn't the most transparent listing in the category. For a couple happy to open in German (or to ask about English early and get a clear answer before booking) and to build the shape of the day through conversation rather than a published package, the experience behind that 200-ceremony figure, plus a genuinely wide personal background, is a real credential to write to him about.