Liebe Hoch2 Weddings

Jan Euskirchen's "Full-Service Wedding Planning" page breaks its offer into 5 workstreams, and the fourth one is easy to miss on a first read. "Ceremony (as your celebrant)" sits between the decor concept and the wedding-day coordination, described as a personalized symbolic ceremony run in German, English, French or Italian. It carries no separate price tag and no note that it's optional. Book him to plan the wedding and, by the shape of his own page, you have also booked him to lead it, unless you say otherwise. For a couple working out what "wedding planner" means here, that's the fact to start with: this isn't a planner who can introduce you to a celebrant. He is both, folded into one package.

The other 4 workstreams are named with more specificity than most planner sites bother with. Concept and planning covers a personalized wedding concept, budget planning and cost control, a timeline with milestones, and location scouting through to venue booking. Vendor management covers selecting and coordinating every supplier, negotiating terms, contract management, and coordinating directly with catering, photography, DJ and florist bookings through what the site calls his own trusted network. Design and decoration covers a full decor concept, colour palette and style direction, coordination with florists and decorators, and the smaller paper goods: signage, menus, place cards. It is not sold as its own product; a couple wanting design help alone would have to buy the whole package to get it. On the day itself, the page's own claim is full coordination as master of ceremonies, an emergency kit, and him handling everything so the couple doesn't have to.

Coverage is national rather than local. The site names German-speaking Switzerland (Zurich, Bern, Basel, Lucerne, Aargau), Romandie (Geneva, Montreux, Lausanne), Ticino (Lugano, Ascona and Locarno) and a mountain-region set (Interlaken, Zermatt, St. Moritz, Gstaad), plus destination weddings further afield in Italy, France, Spain, Austria and Greece. None of the pages checked for this listing name a specific venue he's worked with; the coverage claim is entirely about regions and cities, not properties.

The site also leads with a Swiss Wedding Award 2024 in the Wedding Planner and Independent Wedding Ceremony categories, described in its own words as the Gault-Millau distinction of the Swiss wedding industry. That's his characterization of the award, not an outside one; nothing beyond his own site was checked to confirm it exists as he describes it. The figure that is easier to place in context is the one he gives for volume: more than 100 weddings planned across Switzerland and worldwide since he started the business, a lifetime count rather than a rate.

Ask what any of this costs and the assigned page goes quiet. Its own FAQ answers plainly: prices vary depending on the couple's needs, and he creates a custom offer built around budget and vision. No figure appears anywhere on it, for the planning or for the ceremony folded inside it. That would be the whole story, except a second English page on the same domain, cross-linked to its own German original by a live hreflang tag, breaks the identical service list into 4 named, priced tiers. Full-Service Wedding Planning starts from CHF 8,000. Partial Wedding Planning, aimed at couples who've already started and want an experienced hand on specific pieces, starts from CHF 4,500. Day-of Coordination, for couples who've done their own planning and want someone else running the room, starts from CHF 2,500. Destination Wedding Planning outside Switzerland is priced by custom quote instead. Sold on its own rather than bundled into full planning, the ceremony itself starts from CHF 2,000. Every figure is stated as a starting point that moves with guest count, location and scope, and every one matches, digit for digit, between the German original and its English counterpart. What doesn't match is which of his pages a visitor actually sees them on: the URL this listing is built from carries none of them.

What his help with the legal paperwork actually covers

For a couple marrying from abroad, the sharper question isn't the decor concept, it's the paperwork. The pricier planning page answers a version of it directly: asked whether he can help with legal requirements, the FAQ says yes, he guides international couples through Swiss legal requirements and can recommend legal services for the documentation itself. The same page lists "legal requirements and documentation" as one inclusion under Destination Wedding Planning specifically, alongside cultural and language support. Neither page goes further than that. There's no named list of documents, no stated timeframe, and no claim that he files anything on a couple's behalf. What's on offer is guidance and a referral, not a promise that the paperwork disappears.

Where the site is unhedged is on what a ceremony he personally leads does and doesn't accomplish. His dedicated ceremony pages state it without qualification: the freie Trauung carries no legal weight of its own. A Swiss marriage becomes legally binding only when a civil registrar performs it, and his own site names the Zivilstandsamt, the civil registry office, as where his couples take that separate step, which it says can happen before, after or on the same day as the ceremony he runs himself. He never calls what he does a marriage. For a foreign couple weighing whether to marry legally at home first or handle it on Swiss soil, that's a planner being careful not to let his own service stand in for a legal step it can't perform.

On language, the pricier planning page is more precise than the rest of the site's blanket claims. Elsewhere, the multilingual pitch treats German, English, French and Italian as interchangeable; this page's own FAQ narrows it: fluent in German and English, with working knowledge of French and Italian. That's the more useful version for a reader deciding whether the day itself can actually run in English rather than just the sales pitch. His own biography adds a credential the ceremony copy skips: alongside years working as a theologian, he says he trained specifically as a wedding planner too, a separate qualification from the pastoral background.

On how many weddings he actually takes on, the site raises the question itself and declines to answer it with a number. Its own FAQ asks how many weddings he plans per year, and the reply is that he limits his bookings to give each couple personalized attention, no figure attached. That's a different claim from the lifetime total above it, and a couple trying to judge whether their date is realistically available is left with the vaguer answer of the pair.

2 brand names, 2 addresses, one Impressum

The legal notice on the assigned page lists 2 entities under one contact: Liebe Hoch2 Weddings at Striegelstrasse 33D, 5745 Safenwil, and Love Square Weddings at Weinplatz 2, 8001 Zurich, describing the identical role for both: wedding planner, Trauredner, Tätschmeister. The phone number and email are shared between the 2 names, and Love Square Weddings is used consistently as the English-language brand elsewhere on the site. Nothing on the pages checked here explains whether that's 2 registered addresses for one operation trading under 2 names or something else. It's stated here rather than picked silently.

The site also reads as mid-revision. The German-language "Über mich" nav link resolves to an English-only biography sitting at a URL that itself now redirects from where it apparently used to live, and further down the pricier planning page, a stretch of older, differently voiced copy, written in "we" rather than his usual "I," still sits beneath the newer version of the same content. A 3rd page adds to the same picture rather than resolving it: the German services page names 4 different products again, Starter Paket, De Luxe Hochzeitsplanung Paket, Rundum Sorglos Paket and VIP Paket, none of which map onto Full-Service, Partial, Day-of Coordination or Ceremony Services above, and every one of the 3 paid ones there is priced only as "Preise im Beratungsgespräch," the price named in the consultation, with no CHF figure at all. A couple who lands on that page instead gets a 3rd naming scheme and none of the numbers this listing quotes. Neither issue changes what's actually on offer. It reads like a site being actively rebuilt rather than one going quiet, and it's the kind of seam a couple should expect ironed out by the time they book rather than a reason to hold back now.

Hiring the planner without also hiring the celebrant

None of the above is a reason to hesitate, but it should set expectations before the free consultation. Jan Euskirchen sells one undivided full-service package that happens to include him personally leading the ceremony, backed by a genuine tiered price list that simply doesn't live on the page most visitors will land on first, workable lead-time guidance (12 to 18 months for full planning, less for the narrower tiers), and a direct answer on the question that matters most to a foreign couple: his ceremony is not the legal marriage, and he says so without hedging rather than leaving a couple to assume otherwise. A couple who wants a single point of contact for the whole day, including someone standing up to lead it, gets exactly that from the way this business is built. A couple who wants a planner and a separately chosen officiant will need to say so explicitly, since his own page's default assumes they don't.