Hochzytsplaner

Hochzytsplaner's team page names 2 people, Romina and Noelle, and gives each the same line: "Ausbildung zur Certified Wedding Planner bei engaged – Wedding Planning" for Romina, "Ausbildung als Certified Wedding Planner bei engaged – Wedding Planning" for Noelle. That is a specific, checkable claim, a named external training programme rather than a generic "trained wedding planner" line with nothing behind it. The company itself, Vibes hoch 2 GmbH, lists both women on its own Impressum as "Geschäftsführerinnen & Inhaberinnen", managing directors and owners, registered with the Handelsregisteramt in Bern. 2 co-owners running the business day to day, both certified through the same course, is a more concrete setup than a solo operator's self-description or a studio that never says who actually shows up on the wedding day.

What they sell is not carved into named packages. The site's own summary of it: "Vom Coaching bis zur Gesamtplanung - Wir unterstützen euch genau da wo es uns braucht", from coaching through to full planning, help wherever a couple actually needs it. Rather than a rigid ladder of tiers, Hochzytsplaner scopes each booking around a specific couple after a free introductory conversation of around 1 hour, then draws up an individual "Leistungsbeschrieb", a tailored service description with a cost estimate attached.

3 real invoices instead of a rate card

Where the site is genuinely more transparent than most planners in this category is a page of downloadable PDF cost examples, built from actual past bookings rather than a hypothetical price list. 3 are posted, 1 per scope, and each spells out the hours billed against CHF 120 an hour and exactly where that time went.

The full-planning example (Kostenbeispiel Gesamtplanung) is built around a couple with a CHF 45'000 wedding for 65 guests, who handed over the whole project because they had little time and capacity of their own. Hochzytsplaner sourced and vetted the florist, the photographer, the cake designer and the stylists, built the day's design and running order, and staffed the wedding itself with 2 people, 1 for 14 hours and 1 for 9. Across the whole engagement that adds up to 74 billed hours and a fee of CHF 8'880.

The partial-planning example (Kostenbeispiel Teilplanung) shows what gets dropped when the budget doesn't stretch to full planning: a CHF 25'000 wedding for 35 guests where the couple picked their own food and drink, booked their own band, and handled invitations themselves, while Hochzytsplaner still ran the venue search, the ceremony structure, the day's running order and vendor introductions for everything they kept. That scope came to 34.5 hours and CHF 4'140.

The cheapest of the 3, Kostenbeispiel Erste Hilfe, is not planning support so much as a nudge in the right direction: a CHF 32'000 wedding for 100 guests where the groom did the actual planning himself, described on the page as his own passion project, while Hochzytsplaner supplied venue and vendor shortlists, a timeline and pointers on where to start. That came to 15 hours and CHF 1'800.

None of these 3 figures is a promise; every booking is scoped separately and the site says so directly. But naming real hour counts and a real fee against 3 genuinely different scopes of work is more than the "get in touch for a quote" line most of this category runs on, and it settles, concretely, what full planning, partial planning and a light-touch consultation actually buy here.

The 2 general estimate figures printed elsewhere on the site do not quite agree with each other, or with those worked examples. The offer page puts a typical complete-planning fee at "zwischen CHF 5'000.- und 7'000.-", plus the wedding day itself; the planning page gives the same estimate as "zwischen CHF 4'000.- und 6'000.-". Both are well under the CHF 8'880 the real Gesamtplanung example actually totalled, though that example's total already folds in the 24 hours of on-site wedding-day staffing that the general estimate lines describe as billed on top. Read together, the honest summary is: budget CHF 120 an hour, expect a full-planning engagement to run well into the thousands, and treat the published example as the more concrete anchor than either "typical" range.

Mostly Bern, with Zurich named as a second base

The registered company sits in Bern, filed with the Handelsregisteramt there, and the 1 full wedding story the site publishes, a Dampfzentrale foyer wedding in Bern's Marzili district in August 2024, took place in the same city. The contact page adds a wider claim of its own: "Mit unserer Arbeit sind wir vor allem in Bern und Umgebung sowie in und um Zürich zu Hause", at home mainly in and around Bern as well as in and around Zurich, with a further line welcoming enquiries from further afield too. No other canton, region or specific venue is named anywhere on the site, so a couple planning outside that Bern-Zurich axis would be relying on that one open sentence rather than a stated working radius.

No English page, and no answer on the paperwork either

For a tenant built around couples planning a Swiss wedding from outside the country, the biggest gap is a plain one: the entire site runs in German, with no English toggle, translated page or navigation label found anywhere on it. Nothing on the site states whether Romina or Noelle run consultations, contracts or the wedding day itself in English, so a couple who doesn't read German has no way to confirm that without asking directly.

The same silence covers the civil preparatory procedure a non-Swiss couple has to complete before a Swiss registry office can marry them, and whether the ceremonies Hochzytsplaner helps plan are the legally binding civil act itself or a symbolic one arranged separately. The site never says either way.

The PDFs and the one published wedding carry an older name

Both cost-example PDFs and the Erste Hilfe one-pager close on the same line: "Hochzytsplaner - Stefanie Waber, Salvisbergstrasse 5, 3006 Bern", a different name, address and phone number than the current Impressum's Vibes hoch 2 GmbH at Schanzenstrasse 1, 3008 Bern. The site's 1 published wedding story, from 2024, credits 2 different planners again, Selina and Stefanie, running the day start to finish. None of that reads as a business that has closed: the team page, the Impressum and an open jobs page are all current, and the contact details on them work. It reads instead as reference material that predates a change of hands, still linked from a live site that has otherwise moved on to a new name and a new pair of owners. It's worth knowing before that first free hour, since the people actually taking the booking today are the 2 named on the current team and Impressum pages, not the ones credited on the older PDFs.

Worth the first free hour

Hochzytsplaner's case for itself holds up on its own terms: a named, checkable certification behind both current owners, a genuinely flexible scope rather than one-size packages, and, unusually for this category, real hour-by-hour cost examples in place of silence on price. Set against that: everything runs in German with no stated fallback for an English-speaking couple, the site never addresses the legal paperwork a foreign couple actually has to clear, and its 2 general price estimates disagree with each other and undercut its own worked example. A couple who reads German, or is happy to raise the paperwork and language questions directly in that first conversation, gets an unusually transparent look at what a real booking here has already cost real couples before spending a single franc.