Syrina Wiesler

On her own site, Syrina Wiesler introduces herself in one breath as several things at once: an optimist, someone who values harmony, a freie Traurednerin (an independent, non-civil wedding celebrant), and an Englisch- und Französischlehrerin, an English and French teacher. That order isn't incidental. She still teaches. The About page for her practice, Zeitgeist Zeremonien, states plainly that she completed a celebrant training course at the start of 2022 and has run the 2 professions "parallel zum Lehrberuf," alongside her teaching job, ever since; nothing on the site suggests she gave up the classroom to do this. She found the celebrant role herself, while planning her own wedding, and calls the discovery "Liebe auf den ersten Blick," love at first sight. That reads as an addition to a working life rather than a pivot away from one, and it matters for a couple weighing whether the person writing their ceremony treats it as a full-time trade or a sideline: here it's neither. It's one of 2 jobs she keeps doing at once, and her own words describe them as complementing each other rather than competing for her attention, since both, in her account, call for empathy, planning and an interest in other people's stories.

That dual life shows up again in how she prices a wedding. Zeitgeist Zeremonien runs one flat package, no tiers, and the site itemises exactly what CHF 2,250 buys: a free, roughly 1-hour introductory meeting; a longer planning conversation nearer the date (stated as about 2 to 4 hours); all communication with the couple and anyone else involved, such as witnesses or other vendors, by mail, WhatsApp or phone; her advice on structure, ritual and how to involve family; the writing, preparation and delivery of the ceremony itself, stated at 35 to 45 minutes; the use of her own fully wireless sound system, an amplifier and a wireless microphone; all travel within 50 kilometres of Liestal; and a printed copy of the speech afterward as a keepsake. On the day, she says she arrives about 2 hours ahead of the ceremony to set up and test sound and to confirm final details with any other vendors and the witnesses. Past the 50-kilometre radius she charges CHF 0.80 per kilometre. Overnight costs for a distant ceremony, special access fees such as a gondola, and any material costs for a ritual are all stated as extra, on top of the flat fee, rather than folded into it.

Weddings aren't the only ceremony she sells. The same flat-package structure repeats for a Willkommensfeier, a secular child-welcome ceremony her site names directly as an alternative to a church baptism: CHF 1,200, a shorter ceremony of 25 to 35 minutes, the same wireless PA, the same 50-kilometre free-travel radius from Liestal and the same CHF 0.80-per-kilometre rate beyond it. Book both together for one family occasion and there's a stated CHF 200 surcharge for the combination, not a discount, which at least tells a couple up front what pairing the 2 actually adds rather than leaving it to be quoted separately later. One of the 4 testimonials on her Referenzen page confirms this isn't a theoretical pairing: Jenny & Pascal thank her for "diese wundervolle Zeremonie und Willkommensfeier," this wonderful wedding ceremony and welcome ceremony, together, meaning at least one real couple booked exactly the combination the price list describes.

A Master's degree behind the bilingual surcharge line

Her language offer answers the question that actually matters to a foreign or destination couple more directly than most celebrant pages in this catalog: not whether she "speaks some English," but how routinely a ceremony in English gets built and priced. The site states she leads a freie Trauung in Swiss German, Standard German, English or French, or bilingually, and names the qualification behind 2 of those languages directly: alongside her mother tongue, Swiss German, she holds a university Master's degree in each of English and French, and says she has lived a combined roughly 2 years in the corresponding language regions. A bilingual ceremony carries a stated surcharge of CHF 250, on top of the flat CHF 2,250, and the identical CHF 250 figure appears again, unchanged, on the Willkommensfeier price list. That repetition is itself informative: it isn't a one-off number attached to a single product, it's how she prices working in 2 languages generally. Set against that, the site itself runs entirely in German. There is no English toggle, no separate English page, and no English version of either price list; a couple reading this listing in English is reading a translation of what her own site says in German, not a page she published for them. The service reaches English speakers on stated, priced terms; the marketing, so far, has not caught up to it.

Free twice over, and nothing said beyond it

Both of her products carry the word "frei" in their own name: a freie Trauung, a freie Zeremonie generally. Nowhere across either package page, or anywhere else on the site, does she use the words rechtsgültig, bindend or Zivilstandsamt. That silence isn't a claim in either direction. A Swiss marriage becomes legally binding only when a civil registrar performs it, in a location the canton has approved for civil ceremonies, a fact that has nothing to do with what any individual celebrant's own site does or doesn't say. Wiesler's pages simply don't raise it: a couple booking her should plan for that civil step as a separate matter, arranged through their commune or a cantonal civil registry office, rather than reading either a freie Trauung or a Willkommensfeier with her as covering it. She never claims otherwise anywhere on the site, and nothing here should be read as her marrying anyone: what CHF 2,250 buys is a ceremony she writes and delivers, not the legal act itself.

4 testimonials, 5 photographers, one thin gallery

Her Referenzen page carries 4 testimonials, all from named couples, and they corroborate details from the price list rather than just praising her in general terms. Patricia & Thierry describe the ceremony itself as running about 45 minutes and unusually quick to sit through, which lines up with the 35-to-45-minute duration stated on the offer page. Julia & David single out a specific structural choice, that she built their speech "als Theaterstück," as a piece of theatre. Jenny & Pascal, as noted above, confirm the wedding-plus-welcome combination as something a real couple actually booked, not just a line item on a price list. The Impressum credits 5 photographers by name, André Schmid, Jennifer Widmann of storiesbyjane.ch, Laurence Müller of fotoman.ch, Björn Uiker and Lydia Hersberger, which points to documented ceremonies with professional photography behind them. The cached page text this listing was built from doesn't carry the images themselves, though, so it can't describe what a couple would actually see in a gallery before booking; that's a gap in what was readable, not a claim about what the site does or doesn't show. On the still-trading question, the footer copyright line reads "2024," which would look stale on its own, but the domain's own sitemap file was regenerated on 18 May 2026, well inside the past year, and the business carries an active Swiss registration number, CHE-296.697.963, as a sole proprietorship under her own name. Nothing here points to a dormant practice.

What holds this listing together is how flat the structure of it is: one price for a wedding, one for a welcome ceremony, one clearly stated surcharge for working across 2 languages, and a travel radius measured to the kilometre from Liestal rather than left vague. A couple gets fewer surprises from a page like this than from most celebrant sites in this catalog, which tend to price everything on request and say nothing about the practicalities until a first email. What they don't get is a named menu of rituals to choose from, since her own page leaves that to conversation ("Ja-Wort, Ringtausch, Ritual, persönliche Worte? Alles kann, nichts muss," vows, ring exchange, ritual, personal words, all possible, none required), a photo gallery to judge her delivery by, or an English version of the site itself. All of that gets settled directly with her, in a first message she'll read, and answer, in German. For a couple who wants the terms fixed before that first conversation even starts, a teacher who writes ceremonies on the side of a day job, with a priced answer for 2 languages and a kilometre-by-kilometre travel rate, is one of the more specific starting points in this category.