Karolina Weinfurtner

Karolina Weinfurtner photographs couples in and around Zermatt, and she leads with proposals before she gets to weddings. That order tells you how she works: she plans as well as photographs, and the same habit carries over to elopements and weddings, where she builds an itinerary and helps choose the alpine backdrop. She is the photographer we'd hand any couple heading for the Matterhorn who has never seen the village, because the planning layer is built in, and everything on her pages is in English.

A photographer who scouts, plans and then shoots

The proposal service is personalized planning and photography, covering location scouting, transportation, flowers and decor, so that the person proposing can stay in the moment. A client's proposal location was scouted twice before he arrived, and the edited photos came back in under a week. Another client asked her to play along with "a script" for the surprise, and she did.

She helps choose the location and timing based on the light, the season, the weather and the number of visitors, and gives recommendations for the best timing, train connections and alternative locations if the weather changes. During a proposal she stays discreetly in the background. We love that a plan B for rain or crowds is part of the service before anyone has to ask for it.

Weddings and elopements, from a few hours to a few days

She offers half-day, full-day or multi-day coverage, starting at CHF 1,200 (November 2026). The service includes detailed consultation calls about your event and vision and close communication with you or your wedding planner. Wedding and elopement packages range from a few hours to a few days and are highly customizable.

Past sessions include intimate mountaintop ceremonies, village receptions, elopements, and pre-wedding sessions with the whole family. One couple's planner worked directly with her on the finer details, and she photographed friends and family interacting rather than staged portraits, without making her presence felt. Her style combines portrait and landscape techniques, aiming for soft and natural images. A delivery time for wedding galleries is not published; the proposal photos mentioned above arrived in under a week.

Beyond couples, she photographs families and lifestyle sessions in the mountains. A client who had her cover a pregnancy, a wedding and a family session describes feeling at home even without liking to be photographed, which is a good sign for a groom who dreads the camera.

Her background and how she got here

She was born and raised in Lithuania, spent 20 years living in Germany, and now lives in Zermatt. She is a passionate trail runner and keen traveler. Her interest in photography began in 2019 on a van trip across South America with her husband and their dog, and she found her calling in photo sessions with couples. She gets to know people through consultation calls, hearing their relationship stories and learning about their culture, and that shapes the way she works with couples who come from somewhere else.

A pair who wanted photos during a trip to Zermatt as their wedding drew near found she knows all the corners of the area up to the top of Gornergrat, set up a tent as a changing room and helped find a hairdresser. Couples who want portraits in wedding clothes on the mountain will recognize the logistics involved, and the value of someone who has solved them before.

The tourism office knows her

Zermatt Tourism's supplier directory carries her profile, with the planning description above and a Täsch business address. It is a destination-marketing page, so it confirms that she is an active local supplier rather than assessing her work.

One planner-photographer for a Matterhorn day

For a proposal, an elopement or a small mountain wedding in Zermatt, she is the one-person answer we'd give, with the route, the train connections and the weather thought through by the person holding the camera. The wedding figure is a starting price, and the scope of a full wedding package is set in the consultation call.