Elisa Locci

Elisa Locci's own "Qui je suis" page, refreshed as recently as March this year, lists 5 things she does. Real estate photography for several agencies. Interior photography of apartments and holiday chalets. Hotel and hospitality work. Progress photography on building sites. Aerial photography from a drone she is licensed to fly by the DGAC, France's civil aviation authority. She adds event photography in Milan and Geneva for good measure. The word "mariage" does not appear once on that page, in French or in its English mirror. Click one tab over on the same site, though, and a full wedding operation is still sitting there: a dedicated rate card, 18 town and venue pages mirrored into English, and real, dated wedding galleries going back several years. That gap between what she leads with today and what she still maintains is the honest way into this listing.

She is Italian by birth and has lived in the Chamonix valley since 2016, at an address in Servoz, a village a short drive from Chamonix itself. Her wedding career started earlier and elsewhere: before relocating, she covered weddings around Lake Garda, Lake Como, Milan and Sardinia. Her own description of her wedding work calls it reportage-led, favouring moments caught as they happen over posed setups, with the stated aim of telling the day's story rather than staging it. Nothing about that description reads as generic marketing copy; the pages built around it back it up with specifics.

Riffelalp, the Eaux-Vives town hall, and a garden in Les Praz

3 of her town pages describe actual, individually narrated weddings rather than a location pitch dressed up as one. At Hôtel Restaurant Le Castel in Les Praz de Chamonix, she walks through a full day: the bride getting ready in the hotel's "Premier" suite, the groom in the "Glacier" room, a civil ceremony at Chamonix's town hall, then a secular ceremony back in the Castel's own garden. In Geneva, 2 separate weddings get their own pages rather than one generic Geneva pitch. One centres on the Hôtel Four Seasons des Bergues, a lakefront hotel dating to 1834, with the legal ceremony held at the Mairie de l'État Civil des Eaux-Vives; her own text notes it was a small 2020 wedding, held during Covid restrictions, for a couple with 3 children already and a 4th on the way. The second names the Hôtel Beau-Rivage, a ceremony at Chêne-Bougeries town hall, and a reception at a restaurant in Collonge-Bellerive, with portraits taken at the village's small lakeside port. Both are real Genevan civil registry offices, not marketing shorthand, which matters for anyone trying to gauge whether a photographer actually understands where the legally binding part of a Swiss wedding day happens.

2 real Zermatt shoots, not a Zermatt address

The stored listing this write-up replaces claimed she specializes in Zermatt and the Valais Alps. She does not: nothing on her site puts her business there, and her own bio names Chamonix, Milan, Geneva and Italy, never Valais. But the opposite claim, that nothing on the domain mentions Zermatt at all, does not hold up either. 2 separate, real pages do, each with its own 31-image gallery. One documents an actual wedding at the Hotel Riffelalp Resort: photographs taken in the town centre, then a ride up the Gornergrat rack railway, described on the page as the highest in Europe, down to Riffelalp station, an old train to the hotel itself, a chapel ceremony, and portraits in the woods facing the Matterhorn. The other is more of a location guide than a documented booking, built around 3 mountain lakes, Leisee, Stellisee and Riffelsee, the second sitting at 2,537 meters, shot across July, August and September. So the honest version sits between both claims already made about this listing: Zermatt is not her territory and never was, but it is not invented either. It is 2 real out-of-territory jobs, treated exactly like her other town pages for Megève, Annecy or La Clusaz, no more and no less.

4 tiers, one 600 euro floor

Most suppliers in this catalog price on request. Locci publishes a full rate card, and, unusually, the French and English versions agree figure for figure rather than drifting apart the way bilingual supplier sites in this category often do. Prices start at 600 euros. The full-day package runs until 1 am at the latest and includes 600 edited photos delivered on a USB drive, a password-protected web gallery, a slideshow set to music, and a wooden box holding the USB and 20 prints at 10x15 cm; a 30x30 cm album is an optional add-on. Shorter bookings scale down in step: 6 hours for 300 photos, 4 hours for 200, 2 hours for 100, with an optional extra hour adding 50 more high-resolution files at any tier. An engagement session runs 2 to 3 hours for 50 photos, delivered by download link rather than USB. Every tier includes an initial meeting, in person or by video, and photo editing as standard, so nothing here is a bare hourly rate with everything else billed separately.

What 50 km from Chamonix actually buys

The rate card states her travel territory plainly: the whole Rhône-Alpes region and Switzerland, with travel costs applying beyond 50 km of Chamonix. Geneva and Zermatt both sit well past that line, and yet both already carry the deepest documented work on her entire wedding subsite, more so than some towns inside the free radius. For a couple planning a Geneva-area wedding from abroad, that is the useful read: this is not a photographer edging nervously into Switzerland for the first time, but one whose 2 most detailed, most photographed jobs on the whole site happen to be there. What the site does not say is what that travel fee actually costs past the 50 km mark; nothing on the rate card puts a number on it, so it is a question for the initial consultation rather than something this listing can quote.

A little of the wedding subsite shows its age next to a real estate side that gets refreshed every few months. One of the 2 Zermatt pages ends, in its English version, with the French call-to-action sentence still sitting above its own translation, an untidy leftover rather than anything more serious. And the SIRET business number printed in the site's footer, 827 821 919 00020, does not match the one printed in the address block on her contact page, 827 821 919 00012: same 9-digit company number, different registered establishment suffix, worth confirming before a deposit changes hands rather than assumed. Neither is disqualifying. What the evidence actually shows is a working, currently active photographer who has quietly let weddings become her second line of business without archiving the part of the site that does it well: real prices, real venues, and at least 2 documented weddings inside Swiss borders that a Geneva-area couple can go and look at before they email her.