Melanie Thun

Every page on melaniethun.ch calls this business Melanie Thun. The homepage title, the logo file name, the team page heading, the footer copyright line, all 4 agree, and none of them say Mel's Wedding World. Switzerland's federal commercial register tells a more specific story. The entity behind this site is a registered sole proprietorship, Mel's Wedding World by Melanie Thun, originally entered under Swiss federal gazette publication No. 247 in December 2021 and moved from canton St. Gallen to Speicher, in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, in a mutation published 3 June 2024. Its federal business ID is CHE-257.013.544. The marketing has moved past the name on the register, or perhaps just moved ahead of it, and nothing on the live site explains which: the page that would normally settle it, the on-site imprint, returned nothing but a rate-limit error on every attempt to read it while researching this listing. Whichever it is, the underlying fact holds either way. This is a solo-run sole proprietorship, not an agency or a partnership, and the register confirms it even where the marketing has outpaced it.

What Complete and Partial planning actually promise

The business itself is simple to describe: 3 named services, Complete planning, Partial planning and Destination Wedding, each on its own page and named on the homepage with nothing more than a "Learn more" link. Complete planning is the fullest of the 3. Its own page lists 10 separate lines of what a couple gets: personal support through the entire planning phase, targeted location research with a short-listed pre-selection, a design concept built from scratch, access to what the site calls her hand-picked network of suppliers, budget planning with ongoing cost control, coordination across every supplier and interface, a detailed day-of schedule with briefings, help with guest management and stationery, regular planning meetings, and a direct WhatsApp line for quick coordination. Partial planning is narrower: 5 lines covering supplier placement built around a couple's own brief, communication with vetted suppliers, advice through the rest of the planning period, regular coordination check-ins, and a detailed day plan for the wedding itself. Neither page states a fee, a minimum spend, or how many weddings she takes on in a year. The homepage's service tiles carry no prices either. Every route through the site, whichever tier a couple starts on, ends at the same offer: a free consultation.

A husband and 2 more women, never named

The team page names Melanie, and nobody else, by name. Her husband gets real space on the same page without ever getting a name attached to it: present from the initial consultation, involved "especially with large, complex weddings," and running the operational side on the wedding day itself, guest organization, on-site coordination with suppliers, and the setup work a couple never sees happen. 2 more women join on the wedding day, also unnamed, credited with years of experience "working in the wedding industry" and handling coordination that has to happen "before anything is even visible," in the page's own words. For a couple choosing a planner largely on the strength of who they will actually be dealing with, that is worth stating plainly: the business is built and marketed around one name, but the wedding itself runs on a small team the site never introduces by name.

The site backs its pitch with 3 named testimonials rather than a review-platform badge. Nadine and Danilo say they met her, whom they call "Meli," at a bridal photo shoot while already mid-way through planning their own wedding, and asked her to take over on the spot. Dajana and Luigi credit her with running a wedding of 120 guests while they, in their own words, "were able to relax completely," and say she stayed reachable "even if it was later in the evening." Vanessa and Dave describe her finding a working plan B when their original arrangement fell through, and say she "kept us up to date with everything." None of the 3 reads like stock review copy: each names a couple, a specific moment, and what actually happened, which is a more checkable form of proof than a star rating on its own.

Where "beyond" leads, and where the record runs out

Every geographic claim on the site sits at the same width. The homepage promises a network "in Switzerland and beyond." The team page repeats the same reach as "beautiful Switzerland or...a unique location anywhere in the world." Neither page names a country, a region, or a single venue. The Destination Wedding page is the one place on the site built to say what "beyond" actually covers, and it could not be read for this listing. 3 separate attempts, spread across the research for this piece, were all turned away by the site's own bot-mitigation software with a 429 error, the wait time it asked for climbing from 60 seconds to 3600 seconds across the session. So this write-up makes no claim about what settings that page shows, mountain, coastal or otherwise, because none of it was actually read, and any prior claim about the kinds of places she covers there should be treated the same way: unconfirmed. What can be said, and was read directly, is narrower: the footer language switcher offers exactly 2 options, English and German, on every page that loaded, with no French or Italian version anywhere.

None of the 4 pages read for this listing say anything about the paperwork a foreign couple has to complete before marrying in Switzerland, or about who, if anyone, handles it on a couple's behalf. That is a gap in what the site publishes, not a finding either way. Whether the business is still open is easier to answer: the footer copyright still reads 2024, but the site's own sitemap shows its pages were updated as recently as August 2026 and its blog the month before that, the profile of a business still being maintained rather than one left to run on an old copyright line.

Nothing here is a reason to skip her. What emerges is a planner who has quietly become the brand while an older, still-legal name sits untouched on a federal register, who backs 2 of her 3 services with real line-by-line breakdowns rather than marketing copy, and who keeps her actual wedding-day team present on the page but anonymous on it. A couple comparing her against another planner will not find a price to weigh or a named venue to check against their own guest list; what they will find, on every page, is the same door, a free consultation, and from there the fee, the destination and the rest of it become a conversation the website has deliberately left for that call rather than settling in advance.