Marcel Gross

Marcel Gross's main navigation runs through dozens of destination galleries, bears, big cats, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Sumatra, a whole Panamericana travel blog, before it reaches a 5-item business menu: Corporate Photography, Weddings & Events, Video, Shop, contact. His own bio page states his identity in the same order: "I am a photographer, polygraph & content creator from Konolfingen, Emmental," and it describes his core work as "natural photography of wild animals, untouched landscapes & nature" before adding that he's "also welcome" to be contacted for commissioned events, weddings, christenings "or other Festivities." The wedding page assigned here sits on a business built primarily around wildlife and travel photography, run by someone trained as a Polygraf (the Swiss print-and-graphics trade) who also holds a bachelor's in media economy and management and still designs logos, flyers and websites on the side. Wedding work is a line item in a wider creative practice, not the whole shop.

That said, it isn't a token add-on. His FAQ states plainly that in the last 10 years he's photographed over 15 weddings and civil ceremonies, and the page describes a coverage style built around restraint rather than direction: "I don't want to force artificial poses, but rather create images that reflect your personality and the atmosphere of your celebration." He says he stays "close to the action and at the same time discreetly in the background," covering a day from Getting Ready (makeup, hairstyling, dressing) through the ceremony, the aperitif, the couple's shoot and on into the evening, naming the ring exchange, hugs with family, cake cutting and the first dance specifically as moments he treats as part of full coverage. His working region is Bern, Emmental, Seeland, Thun and the Bernese Oberland, with travel elsewhere in Switzerland available on request; he'll also help pick a couple's-shoot location within that same territory, by a lake, in the mountains, in an old town or somewhere personal to the couple.

He photographs several distinct types of ceremony, and separates them: civil weddings at the registry office, what the site calls free wedding ceremonies, plus baptisms and family celebrations alongside full weddings. The site doesn't claim any legal role in performing or registering a marriage, and this listing makes none on its behalf; he's photographing whichever ceremony a couple has arranged, civil or otherwise.

3 packages, a stray guillemet, and a plain hourly add-on rate

The pricing table names 3 tiers. The first is labelled "Civilian package" on the English page, likely a rough rendering of a German "Zivil-Paket" (civil-ceremony package), complete with a stray quotation mark the theme leaves dangling after the name. It runs from CHF 750 for 2 hours. The middle tier, "Classic" and marked as the popular choice, runs from CHF 1750 for 5 hours and adds a personal preliminary meeting. The top tier, "Premium," runs from CHF 2900 for 8 hours. All 3 share the same 3 inclusions: a preliminary meeting, careful selection and editing of the images, and delivery through a password-protected online gallery.

Past that base, the site prices individual add-ons rather than folding everything into bigger bundles: an additional hour costs CHF 180, a couple's photoshoot booked on its own (rather than bundled into a wedding package) costs CHF 390 for 2 hours, a wedding photo book starts at CHF 650, and express delivery of the images costs CHF 250. He's explicit that none of this is a rigid menu: "I don't offer a rigid standard package, but rather a customized one," with smaller budgets accommodated by combining a shorter list of the same building blocks rather than being priced out. What the page doesn't do is name a separate travel fee for trips outside the 5 listed regions, or state a gallery turnaround time in days or weeks, both of which some other photographers in this catalog spell out on their own price pages. A couple booking here should ask about both directly rather than assume either from what's published.

What the reviews actually describe

The page carries a Google Reviews widget rather than a static testimonials block, 8 reviews as of this write-up, every one of them 5 stars, each linked out to a real Google Maps profile. They cluster in a single 7-week window, from 24 June to 15 August 2025, which is what the widget happens to be showing now rather than a claim about his total review count over the years. Read past the star rating and they describe specific, checkable things: Melanie R. calls the online gallery "modern, clear, and very user-friendly," which matches the password-protected delivery method the pricing table promises. Mirjam B. mentions a detail the packages don't list anywhere: "He also designed our wedding invitations and thank you cards precisely according to our ideas and wishes," a direct match to the graphic-design side of his practice described on the About page. Reto G.'s review makes the same double life this listing opens on explicit from a client's side: "His passion for nature, and especially for wildlife, is reflected in every single shot... But Marcel doesn't just showcase his talent in nature: He also photographed our wedding, and the pictures turned out simply beautiful. Natural, emotional, and not at all staged." 2 of the wedding gallery images on the page carry real couples' names in their file captions rather than generic stock labelling: Isabel and David, and Nadja and Manuel, evidence the portfolio shown is his own work rather than licensed or borrowed.

Booked alongside wildlife trips, not instead of them

His site is fully built out in English, not just the wedding page: the About page, the imprint and the terms pages all exist in a real English version rather than a machine-translated stub, which matters for a couple planning a wedding in a language they can actually read contracts and correspondence in. What isn't published anywhere on the site is any wedding-specific cancellation or illness policy; the only terms and conditions page that exists covers his print shop, mail-order shipping, a 7-day return window and a CHF 10 late-payment fee, none of it about photographing a wedding day. A couple who wants to know what happens if he's unavailable on their date will need to ask directly, since nothing on the site answers it either way.

His business address is Konolfingen in the Emmental, listed hours run Monday through Friday, 09:00 to 17:00, and the whole site was last copyrighted 2026, current rather than dormant. What makes this listing worth including isn't scale. 15 weddings across a decade is a modest number set against full-time wedding studios elsewhere in this catalog. It's that a couple gets a photographer whose main discipline is elsewhere entirely, patient wildlife and landscape work that rewards restraint and timing over direction, applied to a day where those are exactly the skills that matter. If a documentary, hands-off style matters more to you than someone who does weddings every weekend, that's a real reason to look here rather than a compromise.