Foto and Video Salva

Foto and Video Salva's own title tag reads "Photo & Video Salva since 1978," and the phrase repeats across nearly every page of the site. Read the About page in full and the founder complicates his own headline rather than smoothing over it. "I am Giuseppe Salva and I founded Foto & Video Salva GmbH in 2015," he writes, before explaining that his parents were the ones who started photographing weddings across Switzerland in 1978 and that he grew up watching them work before he ever picked up a camera himself. Six separate pages repeat this exact distinction in his own words: the About page, the wedding photo book page, the fair-prices page, the Luxury Wedding Switzerland page, and the Baselland and Bern regional pages all say some version of the same thing. This isn't a slip that shows up once and gets corrected elsewhere. It's the consistent, deliberate version of the story. The company as a legal entity is roughly a decade old. The family's photography work in the Basel region goes back to 1978, across two generations, and that's the real fact sitting behind the marketing line rather than an inflated one.

One photographer, one videographer, ten years together

That distinction matters for what you're actually booking. Giuseppe Salva does the photography himself. His site describes one videographer partner who handles the filming, a pair who have, in Giuseppe's own words, "worked together for over 10 years" and who communicate on set "with looks" rather than calling instructions across the room. A second photographer is available on request, useful mainly for a wedding where the bride and groom are getting ready in two different places at once, and the FAQ frames it as an add-on rather than something included by default. For illness cover, the Luxury package's own FAQ names a fixed backup network of seven photographers and videographers who know the house style well enough to step in. That's a small, named operation with a documented contingency plan behind it, not a faceless agency booking out whichever freelancer is free that weekend, and not a single shooter with no backup either.

CHF 6,900 versus buying it in pieces

The pitch behind the Combi package is that a couple normally shops for a photographer, then a videographer, then a photo box, three services, three contracts, three different people showing up on the day. Foto and Video Salva's own published numbers make that comparison concrete rather than just rhetorical. A standalone Wedding Film, no trailer, up to 12 hours of coverage, costs CHF 2,700. A standalone photo box rental, delivered and set up with unlimited prints, is CHF 850. On the photo side alone, the closest match to a full day of coverage is Variant F at CHF 4,000: up to 10 hours, at least 500 images, a 25x35cm album with 100 photos, two unsized parent albums, four 10x13cm mini-albums and a leather case. The Combi package's own photo half, for comparison, covers a full day rather than 10 hours, at least 600 images, the same 25x35cm/100-photo album and two sized 15x20cm parent albums, but no mini-albums at all. Add Variant F's CHF 4,000 to the standalone Wedding Film and the standalone photo box, and buying roughly equivalent coverage across three separate bookings comes to more than the CHF 6,900 the Combi package charges for photo, video and photo box together, even with Variant F's four mini-albums thrown in as a bonus the Combi's photo side never lists. On the site's own figures, "everything from a single source" isn't just a convenience pitch. It's the cheaper way to book.

Two packages named Premium, one price, different albums

The same CHF 6,900 Combi package appears on four different pages, and three of them state its minimum photo count as at least 600 images. The wedding-video pricing page alone states 300 for the identical package at the identical price. This listing publishes 600, the figure the majority of the site agrees on, and records the outlier here rather than picking silently.

A bigger inconsistency sits one price tier up. The fair-prices page lists a "Premium Combi Package" at CHF 7,900 that adds a 30x40cm main album with 200 photos and two 20x30cm parent albums on top of the base Combi's photo, video and photo box. The separate Luxury Wedding Switzerland page lists a "Luxury Combi Package Premium," also CHF 7,900, also a full day of photo and video with an unlimited-print photo box, but the album it actually specifies is a single 25x25cm book with 50 photos, roughly a quarter the print count of the other page's version. The Luxury page's own FAQ repeats the smaller spec a second time, so it isn't a typo: "the standard album is 25x25cm with 50 photos." Two landing pages, one identical price, and materially different albums attached to it. A couple who found the site through the Luxury page and later checks the general price page, or the other way round, would reasonably think they had been quoted two different products. Ask directly which album your CHF 7,900 actually buys before you sign anything.

The most recent work on the site is dated January 2026

Three case-study pages back the "500+ weddings" figure with named, dated bookings rather than leaving it as a round number nobody can check. Lorena and Matteo married at the Basel-Stadt registry office on January 16, 2026, followed by a couple shoot through Basel's old town. Seline and Janis married at the Arlesheim registry office in January 2026 and held their aperitif on the Sissacherfluh, a restaurant 700 metres above the Oberbaselbiet. Both are recent enough to answer the only question that actually matters here, whether the business is still trading: it clearly is.

The third case study reaches further than Basel. Caterina and Antonio married on Lake Geneva in Vevey on June 14, 2025, a free ceremony held right on the lakeshore, after a wedding planner in Basel, Heiratsatelier, referred them directly to Giuseppe Salva. They booked the Premium package, photo, video, photobooth and album together, and the resulting case-study page is a genuine, dated, named booking in French-speaking Switzerland rather than a generic landing page. That matters because the Switzerland-wide page also lists 19 named venues across Zurich, Lucerne, Bern and eastern Switzerland as general regional orientation, careful not to claim the studio has actually shot at each one. The Vevey wedding is the one specific claim of work outside the Basel region that's backed by a real, dated, named booking rather than a list of nearby castles.

English covers the sales pitch, not always the price list

For a foreign or English-reading couple, the practical question is whether the business runs in English day to day, not just whether the homepage has a language switcher. Foto and Video Salva's main sales pages, the wedding-photographer-Basel page, the Switzerland-wide page, Giuseppe Salva's own bio and the fair-prices page, are properly translated rather than machine-rough. Two supporting pages aren't: the pages published at the English-language URLs for the wedding-video prices and the wedding photo book both render in German, with only the site navigation and the page title translated around them. The Italian-language wedding-photographer-Switzerland price page has the same gap. None of this is fatal, since the pricing itself is duplicated correctly on the English fair-prices page, but a couple following an English link to check a video price or the album process specifically will land on German copy. The Luxury Combi Package's own FAQ states plainly that "advice" is available "in German, Italian or English," which is the more reliable signal: the conversation itself, not every static page, is where the English service actually lives.

What to confirm before you book

None of this makes Foto and Video Salva a bad choice. It documents a real, dated, currently active two-person team with awards named on its own site, a 2020 Wedding Award and a Weddison Award among them, over 500 weddings behind it, a 2022 profile in the Basler Zeitung, and pricing that's unusually transparent for this catalog, published as a full table rather than hidden behind "contact us for a quote." The 8.1% VAT is stated up front on every package, RAW files are refused as a matter of stated policy rather than a quiet omission, and the drone work (FOCA-licensed, flown on a DJI Mini 5 Pro), the photo box and the album production all come from the same small team that shoots the wedding itself.

What's worth confirming directly, given how the numbers move between pages, is which image-count minimum applies to your specific Combi package, which album size and page count your CHF 7,900 tier actually includes, and what the flat travel fee is for a wedding outside Basel-Stadt, since the site states clearly that one applies without ever printing a figure. Recommended booking lead time also shifts by page, from 6 to 18 months depending which one you read, so treat "as early as possible" as the operative advice rather than any single window. Ask for the deliverable list in writing before paying the deposit, split three ways at the Luxury tier (CHF 750 for the photo side, CHF 750 for video, CHF 300 for the photo box), rather than assuming that whichever page you found first describes exactly what you'll get.