Daniel Not Cake

Daniel Notcake's Switzerland page does something almost nothing else in this category does: it prints an actual price list, in euros, split into 5 coverage-hour tiers, and keeps printing real figures all the way down through second photographers, spare days and rush editing. 6 hours of coverage costs 2200€. A 10-hour Full Day package is 2800€, with a second shooting day added at +2000€ for a couple who wants the wedding split across 2 days. The Multi-Day tier covers 14 hours across 2 days for 4000€, and Diamond covers 16 hours across 2 days for 5000€, adding a sneak peek of 20 to 30 photos within 3 days, a 30 to 60 second backstage video, on-the-day polaroids and a slideshow. At the top sits Lux, a joint photo-and-video package "by Daniel and Alice Notcake" for 9000€, the same 16 hours over 2 days but with both a highlights clip and a longer archive film included.

That's the honest place to start, because most suppliers in this category price on enquiry and this one doesn't. It's also worth being precise about who's publishing it before going any further. Daniel Notcake describes himself, on his own homepage, as "a destination wedding photographer from Israel," and his listed WhatsApp number carries the Israeli country code, +972. His site's main navigation keeps "Weddings in Israel" and "Packages in Israel" as their own section, separate from over 20 "photographer in [city]" landing pages filed under Europe and Other Countries, Zurich and Geneva sitting alongside Paris, Rome, Athens, Berlin, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki. The Switzerland page is built on that same template, not carved out as a special case.

His own description of the work stays consistent site-wide: "unusual locations," photos "with people in unusual places," and by his own count he's "visited 80+ countries" chasing them. For weddings with video attached he doesn't work alone: the Lux package is credited to him and Alice Notcake jointly, and a separate stand-alone "Videographer" booking, priced from 2200€, covers filming without the full joint package attached.

None of that portfolio has a Swiss stamp on it yet, though. The full wedding stories listed on the Switzerland page itself run through Prague, a vineyard and 2 different cities in Israel, ice caves and lava fields in Iceland, the Dead Sea and Petra in Jordan, Santorini, Cappadocia and Georgia. Not a single one is set in Switzerland. The page explains why directly, in a section offering a discount "for any country where I haven't been to": 500$ off the Full Day rate or 1000$ off Diamond, for early, non-last-minute bookings, in a short wanted-destinations list that names "Switzerland (only mountain weddings)" next to Scotland. Read plainly, that's a photographer with a genuinely worked pricing structure for this market and no completed job in it yet, discounting himself into a first booking rather than dressing the page up to look like an established local practice. It's the one thing worth knowing before anything else here, and it doesn't undo the pricing detail above, it just means that detail is unproven rather than demonstrated.

Where the package numbers stop agreeing with themselves

Scroll past the 5 tiers and the same page prices its own add-ons twice, in 2 different spots, and the lists don't match. Directly under the packages, a bullet summary prices a second photographer at +1800€, a spare day at +1000€ and a rush sneak peek at +300€. Further down the same page, a fuller glossary of the same options prices a second photographer "from 1500€," a spare day at 1200€, and the same 20 to 30 photo sneak peek at 200€. Nothing on the page explains the gap and nothing resolves it either way, so a couple pricing an add-on off this page should treat either figure as a starting point to confirm, not a final number. What both lists agree on: editing can be rushed for a 10 to 25 percent surcharge depending on the deadline, and a wedding album starts "from 600€" for a 30 by 60cm large album plus 2 smaller family albums, shipping not included in that price.

What actually happens after the shutter closes

The page is more specific here than the pricing itself. An elopement shoot typically returns "from 300 photos"; a wedding with guests runs 600 to 1000. Behind that final edit sits a much bigger take: Daniel says he shoots 3000 to 6000 frames at a typical wedding, rising to 10,000 to 12,000 with a second photographer working alongside him. Backup is stated plainly rather than implied: 2 memory cards duplicated on the day, then a physical hard drive and cloud storage afterward, with a claim of never having lost a couple's footage. Raw files are available on request, "up to 300GB" of source material, uploaded within a week of asking. The turnaround quoted for a Swiss booking specifically is "60 days, often much faster," which sits inside the general policy stated elsewhere on the site: delivery within 2 months, with a contract footnote allowing a further month's delay during the May to October peak, one the FAQ says has never actually been used.

Booking, deposit and what's still on the couple

Booking runs on a 50 percent deposit against a remotely signed contract, WhatsApp named as the fastest way to reach him. The site is direct about what its price doesn't cover: entrance fees to any paid attraction, travel and food during the shoot itself, and a possible surcharge for shooting outside the big cities or when neighbouring dates fall in another country. There's a second, more specific warning aimed at early planning: the euro prices are quoted for early bookings, and a late one (his own example is "shooting next week") can cost more, in the site's own words, "due to the lack of cheap tickets and other unforeseen circumstances," a plain admission that his own flight is priced into the rate rather than billed as a separate line.

None of that is unusual for a photographer who works across several countries a year rather than one city. His published calendar already runs into 2027, with paid trips lined up to Jordan, Argentina, Chile, Madagascar, Oman and an Easter Island shoot he calls a long-held dream. What's unusual, in a category where "contact for a quote" is the norm, is that a couple planning from abroad can read the real price of a Swiss wedding, tier by tier, before sending a single message. The 2 sets of add-on prices are worth double-checking before booking, and the business hasn't yet photographed the wedding it's now discounting itself to win. Both are worth knowing going in, and neither cancels out the part that's genuinely rare in this catalog: a real, itemised, English-language price list for exactly the market a foreign couple is trying to book.