Trice Gantner

A Zurich Photographer Who Works Like a Guest

Trice Gantner is a wedding photographer from Zurich who works across Switzerland. Her homepage describes her wedding photography as emotional, creative and timeless, and addresses couples who want pictures that tell their love story, "voller echter Emotionen, ungestellt und lebendig" (full of real emotion, unposed and lively), while spending as much of the day as possible with their guests and leaving the photos to a professional.

She describes her role plainly: as their wedding photographer from Zurich, she accompanies couples like a good friend, with an attentive eye for the small and big moments, recording love, laughter, tears of emotion and the details of the day, authentic, true to color and with an artistic touch. The aim, in her words, is pictures that show not only how the day looked but how it felt. The settings she names are broad: the peaks of the Alps, a romantic villa or a fairytale castle.

Why Personal Fit Matters to Her

Her introduction puts one idea first: real emotions count for more than perfect wedding photos. She writes that she needs to understand the schedule, the couple's wishes and expectations, but that what she values most is a connection with couples she gets along with personally as well as professionally. If she can be part of the celebration as a friend and not only as a photographer, she says, she can use her full potential and is at her most creative. A free, no-obligation first meeting is where both sides find out whether they fit and whether she is the right photographer for the day.

For a couple planning from abroad, that meeting is the first practical step. The site does not say whether it can be held by video call.

What Her Couples Say

The homepage carries one long review, from Serena and Michel, dated 01.10.2022, who describe themselves as absolute Trice fans. She photographed both their wedding and the wedding of their best friends. They write that she has a knack for blending into the wedding party: with her warmth, openness and easy manner, she took away the feeling of being photographed by a stranger and having to smile into the camera all the time. It almost felt as if she were a friend attending as a guest, so they did not always notice what or whom she was photographing, and many spontaneous, unexpected pictures came out of it, which became their favorites. She caught moments the couple had not noticed themselves on the day. The staged wedding pictures they had feared never happened. They also credit her editing style for keeping the photos natural.

That review is the clearest description on the site of what a wedding with her is like, and it matches her own account of working as a guest rather than a director.

Galleries and Venues

The wedding gallery on the homepage presents four reportages: Villa Lindengut, a wedding by the lake ("Hochzeit am See"), a mountain wedding in Zermatt ("Berghochzeit Zermatt") and St. Charles Hall. She describes the gallery as ranging from romantic urban city pictures to large celebrations, photographed in Zurich and across Switzerland. The Zermatt wedding is the relevant example for couples planning an alpine wedding.

Her Instagram feed, shown on the site, adds glimpses of recent work: a civil wedding, a golden wedding anniversary, and a wedding in 36-degree heat.

Her Hotel Belalp Guide

The blog includes a guide to weddings at Hotel Belalp in the Valais, which gives a sense of the mountain weddings she writes about. The hotel is a third-party venue, not hers, and the post does not say that she has photographed a wedding there. The page describes the Belalp as high above the Rhone valley at over 2,100 meters, with a direct view of the largest glacier in the Alps, and says it can only be reached by cable car, which opens onto a car-free mountain world. It notes that the hotel has kept its Belle Époque charm, that its rooms, some with balconies and panoramic views, suit a wedding night or a long wedding weekend with family and friends, and that the panorama restaurant and large sun terrace host aperitifs, wedding dinners and small private celebrations. As the sun sets behind the Valais peaks, she writes, the mood becomes one that "sich kaum in Worte fassen lässt" (can hardly be put into words). The post presents the Belalp as right for a small mountain wedding, an elopement or a stylish celebration with close family, in summer with green meadows and warm evening light, or in winter with snow and clear mountain air.

For a couple from abroad, the practical point from that page is access: a cable-car-only venue affects when guests arrive and leave, and a photographer's travel and time on the mountain should be part of the quote.

Services and Prices

The services menu lists weddings, pregnancy and couple photos, photo vouchers, a wedding album and a photo booth (Fotobox). A separate site covers her business and branding photography. The homepage has a section on prices with a link to a separate prices page, where she presents her services and tailored packages, and invites couples to get in touch for a personal offer in a no-obligation consultation. The prices themselves are on that page, not on the homepage.

What the Site Leaves Open

The pages are in German, with some English in her Instagram captions, and they do not say whether she works in English. The homepage and the Belalp guide state no hours, number of images, delivery time or travel terms, and they do not describe the album or photo booth in detail. Those points, along with language, belong in the first inquiry.

Who She Suits

Trice Gantner suits couples who want unposed, emotional coverage from a photographer who blends in like a guest, and who value a personal connection with the person holding the camera. Her galleries from Zermatt, a lakeside wedding, a villa and a hall show range across settings. Couples who want a strictly directed, formal style, or who need English confirmed before booking, should raise that at the first meeting.

Contact

Inquiries go through the contact form on her site ("Erzählt mir von euren Plänen", tell me about your plans).