glückstrunken Fotografie & Videografie

glückstrunken Fotografie & Videografie is the business of Nicole Jost, a photographer and videographer from Bern. She photographs weddings, couples and engagements alongside families, pregnancies, newborns, friends' shoots, mother blessings and business clients, and she describes her specialty as emotional and authentic photography. For a couple marrying in the Bern area, the useful facts are clear: couple and engagement shoots have a published price, wedding photography is quoted on request, and full wedding videography is not currently on offer.

Who Nicole is

Her about page is personal. She lives with her husband and their two boys in a house on the Aare, near Bern, and the family spends much of the summer by the water, unless she is out working for Bärner Mamis. For years she has carried a large handbag with her camera always inside, because you never know when a moment will turn up that wants to be kept. The business name comes from the feeling a beautiful sunset gives her, a happiness she says she could not put into words for a long time until she found one: glückstrunken, literally drunk with happiness.

Her interest in video goes back to childhood. She was fascinated by her parents' old Super8 films, which bring her childhood back to life with movement, voices and memories, even of people who are no longer there. She finds that deeply moving and says it shows how powerful video can be. On why she loves the work, she writes that photography and videography are far more than a job for her: they are her passion and her way of seeing the world, from the anticipation of a pregnancy to a newborn's first days to the emotional moments of a wedding.

Weddings

The wedding section is short. Nicole writes that she is glad to accompany couples as a wedding photographer on their day, "Egal ob es sich um ein ziviles Hochzeit, eine kirchliche Trauung mit Apéro und Fest oder eine freie Trauung handelt" (whether it is a civil wedding, a church ceremony with apéro and party, or a free ceremony). Couples get in touch through the contact form, they discuss wishes and needs, and she sends a non-binding quote. The location line reads Bern and surroundings, with places farther away on request.

The page's opening paragraph sets the tone she aims for: romantic couple shoots, emotional engagement photos and the moments of the wedding day, told authentically and lovingly, with every moment, touch and smile recorded as it really was.

There are no wedding packages, hours or prices on the page, so everything about a full wedding day is a matter for the quote.

Couple and engagement shoots

These are the one part of the wedding offer with published terms.

The Couple-Shooting is for partners who want good pictures of the two of them. The Verlobungsshooting is for someone planning a proposal who wants the surprise photographed; it is booked as a couple shoot with the note «Verlobung» (engagement).

Both run on the same terms:

• about 1 hour
• Bern and surroundings, farther away on request
• CHF 390, including travel costs within the Bern area
• 45 carefully edited images in an online gallery
• further images at CHF 10.00 each

For a couple from abroad who are in Bern before the wedding, the couple shoot is a simple way to meet her and see her work on their own faces.

Video

The video offer is limited and worth reading carefully. As a new add-on, any photo shoot can be combined with video, priced by effort, and the couple receive 1 high-quality short video. The page argues that pictures alone often do not tell the whole story and that moving images keep the atmosphere, emotions and details of a day.

Full wedding videography is another matter. Under "Hochzeitsvideografin" the page says she does not offer this service at the moment and invites couples to contact her for recommendations. The site footer still describes her as a wedding videographer, and the contact form lists "Hochzeit" among the video requests, so a couple who want film should ask what is possible for their date before assuming either way.

Beyond weddings

The rest of the business shows what else a couple could book from the same person later. The site's menu has sections for families, friends, couples and business photography. The footer lists family, pregnancy and newborn shoots, friends' shoots, mother blessings and engagement shoots, and mentions accompanying the birth of a child or family moments at home on photo and video. The contact form confirms the range: photos of individuals, couples, engagements, families, weddings, pregnancies, newborns and business clients, and video of engagements, families, weddings, pregnancies, births and business work. For companies she develops tailored concepts to present their brand.

Booking and contact

Contact runs through the form on the contact page, which asks for first and last name, email, company, what the photos or video are for, a message and how you found her. She promises to reply as soon as possible. The email address is hello@glueckstrunken.ch, and her Instagram account is glueckstrunken_fotografie. No phone number is published.

What the site leaves open

Everything about a wedding booking beyond the first contact is unstated: no packages, no hourly or day rate, no number of photos, no delivery time, no deposit or contract terms, and no travel costs beyond the Bern area for couple shoots. The site is entirely in German and does not say whether she works in English, which a couple from abroad should ask at the start. The portfolio section, "Eine Auswahl meiner bisherigen Arbeiten" (a selection of previous work), shows images without naming venues, so it does not show where in the region she has photographed weddings.

Who it suits

glückstrunken suits a couple marrying in or around Bern who want a warm, unposed style and a photographer who also works with families and children, which can help when young relatives are part of the day. The published couple shoot price makes a pre-wedding session easy to plan. The caveats are that wedding pricing only comes through a quote, that full wedding film is currently not offered even though short videos are, and that the German-only site leaves the language question open.