Slika Photography

The page's own title tag names 5 places: Lausanne, Geneva, Vevey, Vaud, Valais. Scroll down and the page itself covers 7, adding Montreux and Fribourg to the list, each with its own heading and its own two-sentence pitch. Valais gets "the majestic mountains... offer a spectacular backdrop," Fribourg gets "medieval architecture and lush landscapes," and neither mentions a venue, a drive time or a price. That's worth sitting with before anything else, because it settles the question this listing was built to answer: is a wedding in Valais a genuine part of this photographer's working area, or a keyword bolted onto a Lausanne business.

The honest answer is somewhere in between, and the site itself gives the evidence either way. Lausanne is home turf in the plain sense: the registered contact address on the About page is Chemin de Maillefer 37 in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, and the wedding page's own intro says plainly, "Based in Lausanne, I offer my services in Geneva, Montreux, Vevey, Valais, Fribourg, and the entire Vaud region." Everywhere past Lausanne is offered, not demonstrated. None of the 7 sections names a couple, a chapel or a specific commune in Valais, and none of them prices the trip differently. On the question this listing was assigned to check, whether the site states a separate travel fee for reaching Valais, the answer is no: every package, on both the English and French versions of this page, is said to include "my travel expenses" as a flat inclusion, with no distance scale published anywhere. A wedding in Vevey, close enough to Lausanne to be a short drive, and a wedding somewhere in Valais get the same line in the price list. If a couple wants to know what a Valais date actually costs to reach, this page will not tell them; only a quote will.

Behind the wedding page is Kiré Ivanov, who runs Slika Photography alone from Le Mont-sur-Lausanne. His own bio names a Master's degree in Nanotechnology and says he has worked as a photographer since 2009, doing both the shooting and the retouching himself rather than handing files to an editor. Weddings are one branch of a wider practice. The site's own navigation splits into a "Companies" side (portraits, corporate work, commercial and product photography, CV and LinkedIn headshots, catalogues, architecture, sport and wellness, social media, events) and a "Individuals" side that holds weddings alongside maternity shoots and photobooth rental. His partial client list, published on the About page, names Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Ruinart, Krug, Glenmorangie, LVMH, Institut Le Rosey, Lausanne Palace and EPFL among others, and his stated equipment runs to Phase One medium-format gear and a drone. None of that is wedding-specific, but it does answer a question the wedding page alone doesn't: this is a working commercial studio that also shoots weddings, not a wedding specialist who occasionally does other work.

Every package includes the trip, whatever the 7 towns turn out to mean

Wedding coverage starts "from 500 CHF," the only number on either language version of the page. What that floor buys, per the site's own inclusions list, is the photographer's travel, sorting and retouching with no cap on the number of processed images, delivery in high-resolution JPEG on a USB drive, and a password-protected online gallery. A premium photo album from Seena.ch, sized 30x30cm and made, per the site, by "a specialized artisan with over 30 years of experience," comes only with full-day coverage; other packages get a 15% discount code toward one instead. The site never breaks its offers into named tiers or states what separates a shorter booking from a full day beyond that one album distinction, so a couple comparing packages will be doing it by quote, not by a published grid. One small housekeeping note on the page assigned to this listing: the pricing headline and its first inclusions list still render in French, "A partir de 500 chf" and "Tous les forfaits incluent," with the same information repeated correctly in English further down the same page. It reads like an unfinished translation pass rather than a working problem, since the content is there twice, just not consistently in the language the URL promises.

Booking terms, delivery and what happens to the images after

A deposit of 30% is due when the contract is signed, payable in cash or by bank transfer, with the balance settled when the USB drive is handed over. Turnaround for the edited gallery runs 3-4 weeks after the wedding, with a faster delivery available on request at the quote stage. Copyright stays with the photographer: a couple gets the right to use and reproduce their own images privately, and anything commercial, a magazine feature, a contest entry, a resale, needs a separate agreement. On privacy, the site is direct and it's a genuine point in its favor: no official wedding photos go on social media on the day itself or afterward without the couple's prior sign-off, and Ivanov says he waits for that approval before using any image to promote his own work.

The photobooth add-on, and one number that depends which language you read

Alongside the photography, Slika Photography rents a selfie photobooth with props and instant printing or email delivery, useful for a reception rather than the ceremony itself. It's priced from 400 CHF on the English page and from 300 CHF on the French one, for what reads as the identical rental, and nothing on the site explains the gap. It's a minor inconsistency rather than a red flag, the kind of thing a quote request would settle in one email, but worth knowing before assuming either figure is the final word.

What to ask before booking a Valais date

The practical case for this listing is real. There's a working photographer with 250 weddings behind him by his own count, named testimonials from real couples (Sophie and Marc for a Geneva wedding, Clara and Julien for one in Montreux), a stated privacy policy that most couples would want, and a site whose main pages were last updated 2 days before this listing was written, not a dormant page coasting on old bookings. His own bio lists French, English, German and Italian, which matters directly for a foreign or expat couple deciding whether the planning conversation and the contract itself will run in English, though the leftover French pricing block on the English URL is a reminder to confirm that in the first email rather than assume it from the language switcher. The one thing this page won't settle on its own is cost by distance: since travel is folded into every package at every one of the 7 places named, without a published scale, a couple planning specifically for Valais should ask for that number directly rather than read it into the "from 500 CHF" line, which describes a floor, not a quote for their address.