Elopement Switzerland

Book a "Meet & Greet" through the contact form on elopementswitzerland.com and the person who calls you back is named on the page: Stephanie, the planner behind the business, working from an address in Steffisburg, just outside Thun. That first call is free, and it's also the whole sales pipeline: no separate quote request, no "planning department." If you like what you hear, you sign a contract to lock in a date, and Stephanie starts building the day around your own request rather than a pre-set script.

What makes this listing different from most planners you'll find under this heading is that "planner" undersells the arrangement. Elopement Switzerland is a fixed team of 3: Stephanie handles the planning, André Schmid shoots the photography, and Lucas, of Lucas Martin Wedding Films, shoots the video. All 3 appear on the About page under their own names, each with a link out to their individual professional sites, and each package on the pricing page bundles all 3 services under one number rather than pricing planning alone and leaving a couple to hire a photographer separately. Stephanie has been planning weddings, by her own account, since 2020; André has shot weddings since 2018; Lucas doesn't give a start year, only that he has been doing it, in his own words, "for three years now."

The packages page groups everything into 3 published buckets rather than a vague "full service" claim: Meet & Greet (the free planning call), Planning, and Visuals. The Planning bucket itself is itemised, not a single line: accommodation, hair and makeup, flowers, transportation, the first look and ceremony location, an officiant, tailored activities, food and drinks, the day plan itself, and coordination with whatever other vendors the day needs. Visuals is described as André and Lucas accompanying the couple for however long the chosen package covers; the only decision left to the couple, in the site's own words, is "how long you want us there for." Stephanie's own bio on the About page ties back to that location list: she says she got to know the country's best spots by hiking them in her own free time, which is also the only explanation the site gives for how a 3-person team based in one canton covers weddings nationally.

Eiger, Matterhorn, Top of Europe: what the price buys

The 3 packages are named after Swiss peaks and priced from CHF 7900 for Eiger, CHF 9900 for Matterhorn and CHF 11900 for Top of Europe, and the site is unusually specific about what each buys. That is not typical of Swiss wedding suppliers, most of whom quote on enquiry only. Eiger and Matterhorn are both framed explicitly as elopements for 2 people. Top of Europe is billed differently, as an intimate wedding for up to 20 guests rather than an elopement, which is worth knowing if you assumed every tier here meant just the couple.

Every tier includes planning, a flower bouquet, and photo and video coverage from André and Lucas together: 4 hours for Eiger, 6 for Matterhorn, 8 for Top of Europe, with any extra hour billed at a flat CHF 1000. Deliverables scale with the tier too: 200 to 300 edited photos for Eiger, 300 to 400 for Matterhorn, 400 to 500 for Top of Europe, plus a 60 second highlight teaser on every tier and a longer edited film that runs 3 to 5 minutes on Eiger, 4 to 6 on Matterhorn and 6 to 8 on Top of Europe. Matterhorn and Top of Europe both add a dinner to the day plan; Eiger doesn't.

What the price leaves out, and who arranges it

The packages page is just as specific about what a couple still pays for separately: an officiant, which the site calls a "speaker," transport, food and drinks beyond the included dinner tiers, hair and makeup, any flowers beyond the bouquet, and any "tailored activities" built into the day. None of these carry a figure on the site. The team says only that it will help a couple find the right vendor for each from its own network. That's a reasonable way to run a fixed-price package in a country where florists, drivers and officiants all set their own rates, but it does mean the CHF 7900 to CHF 11900 headline is the planning-and-visuals cost, not the full day's spend.

Where they've actually worked, and what the site doesn't say

The stories page shows 3 real weddings rather than a stock gallery: an elopement in Isenfluh and Lauterbrunnen for Jasmine and Willy, an adventure mountain elopement for Josin and Janik, and a vow renewal for Celine and Jonas near Luzern's Herboland. All 3 sit in the mountains. Nothing on the site places a ceremony beside a lake or in a city. The homepage's own hero copy sets that tone before you reach the gallery: "imagine you wake up in a small hut in the swiss mountains," which matches what the story pages actually show. The team also says it can reach "several breathtaking places" within about an hour of wherever it's based, without naming a fixed travel radius or listing which cantons it won't cover.

The entire site runs in English, with no separate German, French or Italian version, which tells you who it's built for even without a line that says so directly. The site itself never raises the civil paperwork a foreign couple has to handle before a Swiss wedding is legally binding, never names who officiates, and never says whether a ceremony booked through this team is a legal act, a symbolic one, or paired with a separate civil registration elsewhere. That's a real gap for exactly the audience this tenant serves, and it's worth raising directly with Stephanie on the free consultation call rather than assuming an answer.

The verdict

For a couple who wants one point of contact instead of 3 separate vendor contracts, and who can live with a mountain-and-hut setting rather than a lakeside one, Elopement Switzerland is unusually transparent about what it charges and unusually specific about what that charge includes: hours, photo counts and video length are all published rather than hidden behind an enquiry form. The named photographer, the named videographer and the named planner give the operation a face rather than a brand, and the vow renewal alongside the elopement work suggests the team isn't rigid about what a Swiss ceremony has to look like. Ask about the legal side of the day on that first call, since the site itself never settles it.