Romina

Long before Romina called herself a Traurednerin, she was chasing stage time. Her own site traces the passion for singing and dancing back to early childhood, working up from a school band to bigger stages with a stop along the way at the Bern Conservatory. By her early teens she was already performing at weddings with an Italian trio, and an agency later placed her as a studio singer, her first real work in professional dance-music recordings. The ballads pulled harder, though: in 1997 she sang Mariah Carey's "Without You" at the "Berner Bär Live Show," and from there the bookings turned into corporate events and church weddings, where she sang through Trauung after Trauung. In 1999 she won that same show, plus the "Goldener Scheinwerfer" in Spreitenbach, with Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You." After finishing a commercial apprenticeship in 2001, she was one of roughly 1,200 young women who applied for POPSTARS Schweiz, the country's first televised girl-group casting, and made the cut.

That performance history is the part a couple would never guess from "Traurednerin und Hochzeitssängerin" on a directory page, and it's why her singing and her speaking never feel bolted together on top of each other: she had been doing the music half of a wedding for two decades before she picked up the microphone to talk. Her own site puts the pivot at 2018, in one matter-of-fact sentence: after years as a Hochzeitssängerin, she "stürzte sich in ein neues Abenteuer" and started writing and delivering ceremonies herself, in a style she describes as relaxed, humorous and entertaining rather than solemn. By her own count she has since led around 150 ceremonies, enough that she calls herself one of the more experienced speakers of this kind in Switzerland. She married her husband Davide after nearly 10 years together, and the couple now has a daughter and a son. Her site never gives a surname, hers or her family's; the whole business runs on a first name.

What her arrangement actually includes

Before anything is booked, she offers what she calls an "unverbindliches Kennenlern-Gespräch," a no-obligation get-to-know conversation, so a couple can judge the fit before committing to her for the day. Once you go ahead, her arrangement folds in a full consultation by email, video call or an ordinary phone call, and she asks couples to share the date and the location first so she can check her availability and put together a written quote describing exactly what she'll do and how she'll do it. All the technical sound equipment she needs travels with her and gets installed on site, so there's nothing a couple has to rent separately to cover her part of the day. She answers every enquiry within 1 to 2 days and tells couples to check their spam folder before assuming she's gone quiet.

She doesn't publish a price list anywhere on the site. The written offer she sends after that first message is where a figure would actually appear, not the homepage or the booking page.

6 languages of song, a ceremony delivered in one

Her singing repertoire runs in German, Swiss German dialect, English, French, Italian and Spanish, 6 languages in all. She'll learn a couple's favourite songs specifically for their day rather than working from a fixed setlist alone, though she also keeps a long, named list of pre-vetted wedding songs on her site as a starting point for couples who haven't picked anything yet. She sings over instrumental backing tracks and brings her own equipment to the venue. When she's booked as both speaker and singer, she typically plays the final exit song from its original studio recording rather than singing it live, which frees her hands to celebrate and cheer along with the guests instead of performing through the couple's walk back down the aisle.

The spoken half of the job runs in a single language, and it isn't English. There's no English version of any page on the site, no language switcher in the menu, and the site's own underlying build data confirms multilingual support is switched off entirely. Every testimonial, every ceremony description, and by extension the Traureden themselves, are written and delivered in German or Bernese dialect. A couple weighing her for a bilingual day should plan around a German-language ceremony, not assume an English option exists to fall back on.

Where the ceremonies happen

She lists her working ground as 4 named regions, Bern, Fribourg, Solothurn and Luzern, then adds "und wo die Liebe hinfällt," wherever love happens to land, phrasing that reads as an openness to travelling further rather than a hard boundary drawn at those 4 names. The testimonials on her site back that reach with more than a dozen named venues from real, dated ceremonies rather than a generic service-area map: the Sagi in Oberwil, Le Pont-de-Thielle, the Dampfzentrale in Bern, the Schlössli Le Rödli, Schloss Hünigen, a chapel in Kiental, another in Bad Schinznach, and the Seehotel Sonne in Eich among them, spanning ceremonies dated from 2019 through 2023.

Her site is also careful, if quietly, about what kind of ceremony she is actually part of. Both the music page and the gallery page list a church wedding, a civil Eheschliessung at the Standesamt, and a Freie Trauung side by side, as 3 different kinds of event she might sing or speak at. Neither page claims the Freie Trauung she leads stands in for that Standesamt step, and nothing on the site suggests it does: the ceremony she writes and delivers is the couple's own personal one, kept distinct on her own pages from the civil act that makes a Swiss marriage legally binding.

Also booked for funerals

A page on the site called simply "Trauer" offers the same pairing of live singing and a non-religious eulogy for a funeral or memorial service instead of a wedding. It's a small corner of the site, easy to miss if you're only there for the wedding pages, but it says something real about how she frames the job: the same instinct for turning a life story into something spoken and sung, aimed at a different kind of ceremony. Her own account of it traces back to a personal request from her father before his death, that she sing Ave Maria and play a specific Supertramp song at his funeral, which is presented as the reason she started offering the service at all.

What holds this listing together isn't a slogan, it's the record she can point to: two decades of paid singing before she ever wrote a Traurede, a specific TV-casting story most celebrants in this category can't tell, and around 150 ceremonies since 2018 backed by named couples and named venues rather than stock photography. If your wedding runs in German, or you're happy to have the spoken half in German while the music ranges across 6 languages, she's someone whose track record you can actually check against dates and places, not just a warm biography page.