Katja & Simon Photography

The stored description of this listing called it a business "specializing in Zermatt weddings with Matterhorn backdrop and mountain expertise." That claim does not survive a look at the actual site. Katja and Simon are a real husband-and-wife destination-wedding duo, together 11 years by their own account on their about page, and based in Slovenia. Every page where they describe themselves in their own words names Italy, Slovenia and France as the work, with Austria folded into a region they call "the Alps and lakes." Switzerland isn't one of the locations their own homepage lists under its own section for that, and it isn't one of the 3 country links in the site's footer navigation either.

That doesn't mean there's nothing Swiss on the domain, and the honest version sits between the fabricated claim and a blank page. Read the sitemap in full and 22 Switzerland-branded pages turn up: individual landing pages for 19 towns and resorts, among them Zermatt, Verbier, Montreux, Chillon Castle, Geneva, Zurich, Lucerne, Interlaken, Lausanne, Bern, Basel, St. Moritz, Ticino, Lugano, Thun, Wengen, Grindelwald, Vevey and Vitznau, plus a country-level Switzerland page, a Zermatt-Matterhorn elopement guide, and a "where to get married in Switzerland" venue roundup. None of them sit in the main navigation. They exist for search, and the sitemap itself, 733 URLs long, repeats the same pattern for dozens of towns across France, Italy, Spain and Slovenia. Switzerland isn't a special case here, just one region getting the same programmatic treatment as everywhere else.

19 towns, one real shoot

The pattern is easy to spot once you've read a handful of the town pages. Each opens with a short paragraph naming the town as one of the best places to marry, a line confirming they "definitely photograph weddings" there, then an invitation to browse the portfolio. The exact wording shifts a little from page to page (Verbier and Chillon Castle share close to identical phrasing, Zermatt and the general Switzerland page share another version, Montreux is a near match but not word for word), yet the shape and the invitation never change. Verbier and Chillon Castle haven't been touched since December 2020 and each carries exactly one stock-style photo dated January 2017. The plain Switzerland page's own meta description still promises "documenting international destination weddings in Luzern," a town the visible page never once mentions, which is a small, telling sign of a page copied from one template into another and never fully rewritten. Some of the Swiss pages have had more recent attention: Montreux and the Zermatt-Matterhorn guide were both updated in April 2024, and the plain Zermatt page again in October 2025, so whatever this is, it isn't abandoned.

One page breaks the pattern entirely. "Switzerland Elopement Photographer" documents an actual couple, named on the page as Wincy and Kenji, who took a cable car up an unnamed Swiss ski resort for their wedding photo session. Unlike every other Swiss page, it has no generic opening paragraph and no shared stock photo: 28 distinct, individually numbered images sit in the post, uploaded in October and November 2017, a real dated body of work rather than marketing copy. The site never names the resort itself, not in the text, the URL or the image filenames, so this listing won't guess at one either. What's verifiable is that a real Swiss elopement happened, was shot, and is still published, last edited in December 2022 according to the sitemap.

A guide worth reading, a claim that isn't backed up

The site's own "where to get married in Switzerland" guide states: "During our career we have photographed numerous weddings in Switzerland." That's the studio's own claim, and it isn't something the portfolio backs up. The site runs exactly 6 gallery categories, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, plus a private and a featured folder, and none of them is Switzerland. Whatever those other Swiss weddings were, they didn't make it into the portfolio the way the Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Denmark and Belgium work did. Read the claim as marketing copy sitting on top of what is, underneath, a genuinely useful guide to Swiss venues rather than a record of the studio's own Swiss bookings.

The guide itself holds up on its own terms. It names 21 specific properties as its top picks, Vila Honegg, Cervo in Zermatt, Giardino Ascona, Grandhotel Giessbach, Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, Villa Principe Leopoldo and Bürgenstock among them, and several of those already have their own separate listings elsewhere on this site. It also notes plainly that the best-known venues get booked up to 2 years ahead, which is sound advice regardless of who wrote it. The companion Zermatt-Matterhorn article gets a harder question right too: it explains that an official wedding for foreign nationals in Switzerland is possible but comes with paperwork and sometimes a visa, and that most couples marry legally at home first and treat their Swiss day as a symbolic ceremony, run by a hired celebrant or a friend rather than by a registrar. That's a more careful explanation of the distinction than a lot of destination-wedding content manages.

How they actually work

Away from the Swiss pages, the rest of the site describes a consistent, working studio. Katja and Simon say they travel worldwide, starting with an enquiry, then a video call to work out the details, then the wedding or elopement day itself. Their stated style is documentary and unposed, aimed at couples who want the day told as a story rather than staged for the camera. They also run a second line of business alongside client weddings: an education arm for other photographers, with a Facebook group, an "academy," and at least one paid workshop listed in their own sitemap. That's a normal way for an established destination photographer to diversify, and it's independent evidence this is a working professional operation rather than a thin marketing shell.

No pricing or package page exists anywhere in the sitemap, which is ordinary for a supplier like this and worth noting once rather than treated as a finding. The one hard, checkable testimonial on the homepage, from a couple named Monique and Justin, describes a Slovenia wedding rather than a Swiss one: contacted around a year ahead, photographed across 2 days, and praised for capturing a family reunion alongside the wedding itself. It's a genuine data point about how a booking with them plays out, even though it isn't a Swiss one.

The honest verdict for a Swiss booking

Hire Katja and Simon for a Swiss elopement and you're booking a photographer with a real, consistent style built across a documented run of weddings in Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Denmark and Belgium, one confirmed Swiss shoot from 2017, and an obvious fit for the kind of small, cable-car-and-mountain elopement Switzerland does well. What you are not booking is a studio with a deep, provable back catalogue of Swiss weddings. The 19 town pages are search reach, not a portfolio, and the studio's own line about photographing "numerous" Swiss weddings has nothing behind it in the part of the site built to show the actual work. A couple planning a Zermatt or Verbier elopement should treat the outreach as an invitation to ask for more Swiss examples directly, rather than assume there's a deep local archive sitting behind the contact form. For a couple who already likes the style on display in Slovenia or the Dolomites and wants the same eye pointed at the Alps from the Swiss side, that's a reasonable, fairly low-risk booking to make.