Somewhere Crazy

Somewhere Crazy sells Switzerland as one product, not a menu: a single "Switzerland Classic" elopement package, priced "From €7,000" in the site's own words, printed twice on the page. That is a real, working business, not a placeholder page. The company's own "Happy Couples in Switzerland" gallery lists 10 Swiss weddings by name or by story, from a helicopter ride to the Alps to a couple who wanted alpaca photos afterward, and one of those, Archie and Vivian's elopement at Grindelwald and Brienz Lake, gets a full written page with a genuine, specific testimonial rather than stock marketing copy.

What the company does not have, on the Swiss side of its business at least, is real price transparency across the board. The general "Classic Elopement Packages" page that sits above every destination lists its extra services with no prices at all: makeup and hair artist, videography, vintage car rental, boat rental, helicopter rides, each just named, with a footnote that "the extras depend on the destination." Switzerland's own page breaks that pattern for some of it: videography at €2,700, hair and makeup at €750, private venue search and management at €500, while private transport and a pre or post wedding photoshoot both stay marked "€ variable." A partial price list is still more than most planners in this category publish.

Switzerland also gets no Luxury option. The company runs 2 published tiers site-wide, Classic and Luxury, and the Luxury Elopement Packages page names 10 specific, pre-built packages tied to named hotels and venues: 8 sit in Italy (2 on the Amalfi Coast, 2 around Lake Como, 1 on Sicily, 3 in Tuscany), 1 in Spain (a Mallorca hotel) and 1 in Greece (Santorini). None is in Switzerland, and there's no Swiss version anywhere on the sitemap either. Book Switzerland through this company and Classic is the only tier on offer; the pre-selected ceremony venue, the built-in activities and the private fine-dining dinner that define Luxury elsewhere on the site simply aren't sold here.

Ceremony, photographer, flowers: a symbolic day, not a legal one

The Switzerland-specific FAQ answers its own "what's included" question directly: "The Classic Package covers the key elements for an intimate and well-organised elopement: a symbolic ceremony, 4 hours of photography, a bouquet and buttonhole, and full support with itinerary planning, timeline creation, and vendor coordination." That is a slightly tighter list than the page's separate "Services included" bullets a few sections up, which give the photography as "4–5 hours" rather than a flat 4 and add a "dedicated wedding planner" as its own line; the 2 lists were never reconciled into one, but both describe the same shape of day: 1 ceremony, 1 photographer, 1 flower order, 1 person managing the itinerary and the vendor list.

"Symbolic" is the company's own word, not an inference. The FAQ answer to "Do you offer legal ceremonies in Switzerland?" reads: "Most couples choose symbolic ceremonies in Switzerland because they allow more flexibility with locations. Legal weddings require specific documents and municipal procedures. We can guide you through available options during our first call." The general, site-wide FAQ backs that up without naming Switzerland specifically: "The ceremonies we tend to organize are classified as symbolic ceremonies or blessings, which are not legally binding. However, we have been able to also organize legal ceremonies for our couples in certain cases." A marriage only becomes legally binding in Switzerland when a civil registrar performs it somewhere the canton has approved, and nothing on this site claims that role for itself in Switzerland; "guide you through available options" reads as a referral outward rather than a service performed in-house. The same general FAQ adds one useful line for a foreign couple weighing the paperwork: "for a symbolic ceremony there are no legal requirements to fulfill" beyond the planning contract itself, which is a fair description of what the €7,000 buys, a photographed, officiated but not legally binding ceremony, with the actual civil registration left entirely to the couple.

The page names "Cyntia and Florencia, your wedding planners" for Switzerland. Cyntia's own bio on the About page ties her to different ground, though: she "mainly takes care of couples wanting to marry in Greece, Spain, and Portugal," with no mention of Switzerland at all, and Florencia's bio names no country. The one fully written-up Swiss wedding on the site, Archie and Vivian's, credits neither of them; Vivian's review names founder Valentina throughout, down to Valentina bringing heat pads for a dress worn outside in a February freeze. Whoever actually runs a given Swiss booking, it's worth asking on the first call rather than assuming it's the 2 names on the page.

The deposit, the calendar, and the one real travel guarantee

Neither the Switzerland page nor its FAQ states a deposit figure. The company's general FAQ does: booking requires a signed contract "as well as a booking deposit which starts from €1,500 but could be higher based on several factors," followed by 2 payment instalments if the booking is under 6 months out, or 3 if it's further away. That figure isn't repeated anywhere on the Switzerland page itself, so it's worth confirming applies rather than assumed as a Swiss-specific number. The same general FAQ gives a lead-time recommendation that the Switzerland page separately backs with its own figure: "Most couples book 6–12 months in advance." Gallery delivery, per the Switzerland FAQ, runs "up to 6 months, though most couples receive everything earlier," with photos "typically" landing in 2–3 months and video in 4–6. Bringing guests beyond the couple triggers "an additional coordination fee," on both the general and Switzerland pages, with no figure given on either.

The clearest published policy sits on a separate page, "Book with confidence." If travel becomes impossible for a reason genuinely outside a couple's control, an active armed conflict or government travel advisory, a formal government travel prohibition, or a sustained grounding of commercial airline routes, Somewhere Crazy will work to rebook within 1 year of the original date and won't charge its usual date-change fee for that reschedule. The same page draws the line clearly: "personal, financial, relationship, or health reasons remain subject to our standard date change terms, including the administration fee," an amount that isn't stated anywhere on the site. Cancellation is blunter still: once a deposit and any instalments are paid, none of it is refundable.

An Estonian company selling Swiss elopements

Nothing on the Switzerland page or anywhere else on the site states where Somewhere Crazy is actually based. The privacy policy answers the question that the marketing pages don't: "SomewhereCrazy OÜ... registered in Estonia," with a legal address in Tallinn. Founder Valentina's own account on the About page puts the company's start in 2017. The team bios read the same way: Nina was born in Denmark, Cyntia is currently based in Spain after years in Brazil, the UK, the USA and India, Lara works Italy and Morocco. Nobody on the team page claims a Swiss base, and the site states company-wide totals, 600 happy couples, 8 years of experience, 100 5-star reviews, without breaking any of them out by destination.

This isn't a Swiss company running an English page for foreign tourists; it's a small, Estonia-registered elopement operator that treats Switzerland as one of 15 listed destinations, alongside Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia and Spain, sold through the same enquiry form, the same shared planning tool and the same day-before WhatsApp group it uses everywhere else. The Swiss work itself looks genuine: real named locations, a real testimonial with specific, checkable detail, and a company that has clearly planned this exact kind of trip before. What a couple should not expect is a Swiss office, a Swiss-based planner, or the legal half of a Swiss wedding handled in-house; all 3 would need to come from somewhere else.