Vincent Bourrut

A photographer with a site only for weddings

Vincent Bourrut is a wedding photographer who lives near Neuchâtel and, in the words of his contact page, travels throughout French-speaking Switzerland ("me déplace dans toute la Suisse romande"). The description on his home page goes wider still, saying he travels everywhere in Switzerland, and lists his memberships of ISPWP, WPJA and FEARLESS, all associations of wedding photographers.

His wedding site is kept apart from the rest of his work. The home page says the site is devoted only to wedding photography, and sends anyone interested in his landscapes, architecture and portraits to a separate site. That separation is a useful signal: weddings are a line of work with their own portfolio, blog and reviews rather than one item on a general photographer's menu.

He tells his own history briefly. He has been a self-taught photographer since 1998, became semi-professional in 2009 and has worked full-time in photography since 2010. Since then, he writes, he has photographed more than 300 weddings across Switzerland, in the cantons of Neuchâtel, Vaud, Jura, the Bernese Jura, Valais, Geneva, Fribourg and Bern, and several times in France.

How he photographs a wedding

His welcome text opens with the observation that modern times have put a camera in every hand, but that telling something intimate takes more than a machine: the silence of a look or the fragile truth of a tender gesture only reveal themselves to those who feel before they frame. He goes on to argue that wedding photography asks more sensitivity and creativity of a photographer than any other discipline, and that only an experienced one can cover such a day with elegance.

The approach is documentary. Vincent writes that being photographed is not easy for everyone, and that his approach is simple: "vous accompagner avec délicatesse, suggérer sans diriger, capter l'authenticité sans jamais la contraindre" (to accompany you with delicacy, to suggest without directing, to catch authenticity without ever forcing it). He favors natural, spontaneous pictures and says he will be at the couple's side to catch shared looks, gestures of tenderness and emotion. His reportage style is meant to be discreet and above all non-intrusive, and he sums himself up as "un chasseur d'émotions" (a hunter of emotions).

On light, he favors natural light but does not hesitate to use one or more flashes when the available light is too weak or too poor. He tries to keep flash to a minimum so the photos do not take on a studio look.

The home page is unusually clear about editing. Every wedding photo is processed in Adobe Lightroom, with adjustments to contrast and exposure, cropping and color balancing. He is firm that no image is faked: there is never a photomontage or an element added artificially to a scene. For couples who dislike heavily manipulated wedding images, that is a clear promise.

Recent weddings on the blog

The blog shows the kind of places he works. A wedding in Valais took Cécile and José to the church at Trient in October, with a couple session before the ceremony and the celebration afterward at the Auberge du Mont-Blanc, a few steps from the church. Julia and Simon had an engagement session in Grindelwald a few months before their wedding on the île St-Pierre, and the post title notes the rain on their day. Other recent posts cover a wedding that began at the Abbaye de Bevaix and continued at the Ferme Droz-dit-Busset, a wedding at Les Portes des Iris in Vullierens, one at the Von Rütte-Gut on the shore of Lake Biel, where he writes that the weather swung between sunshine and storm clouds, and a wedding at the Moulin de Bayerel.

A post from April 2026 reports that two of his images received awards at the latest ISPWP awards, which he describes as an honor coming from his peers in wedding photography. The archive runs back to 2016, so the blog is a long record rather than a handful of showpieces, and the categories include engagement sessions and "day after" shoots as well as full wedding stories.

What couples say

The testimonials page, headed "En quelques mots" (in a few words), holds a long list of messages from couples. The same things come up again and again: discretion, kindness, and pictures of moments the couple themselves missed. One couple wrote that they forgot he was the photographer rather than a guest. Another thanked him for work that was "spontané, sur le vif, efficace et tout en discrétion" (spontaneous, on the spot, efficient and very discreet). Two couples mention how quickly the photos arrived.

Most messages are in French, but one is in English ("We would like to thank you so much for the great job you did with your camera!") and one in German.

Booking, contact and what the site leaves open

The contact page gives a mobile number, +41 (0) 78 901 50 64, an email address at bourrut.ch, and a form that asks for the date and place of the wedding and a description of the couple's plans. There is no online booking or calendar.

The site is in French and publishes no prices, packages, coverage hours, delivery times or album options. It does not state which languages he works in. The English and German reviews show he has photographed couples who wrote to him in those languages, but that is not a statement about his working languages, so an English-speaking couple should write in English and ask directly. Travel costs for a wedding far from Neuchâtel are not mentioned either, and neither is whether he works with a second photographer.

Who it suits

Vincent Bourrut suits couples marrying in French-speaking Switzerland, including Valais, Vaud, Fribourg, Geneva and the Lake Biel area, who want a photographer who stays in the background and brings back natural pictures rather than a posed album. The combination of long experience, peer awards and a clear rule against faked images will appeal to couples who care about honest pictures. The engagement shoot in Grindelwald shows he will take a couple into the mountains for a session before the wedding, which can be a good way to get to know the photographer on a first trip to Switzerland.

Couples who want a firm price before a first call, or who need confirmation of English on the day, will have to ask, since the site answers neither question.