Questions & answers
Questions & answers
These are the questions couples ask me most – and what I honestly answer. If you want to get married just the two of you, in an intimate setting or in the mountains: that is my everyday work. More about me, why I photograph this way and how I got married myself is on About.
An elopement is a wedding that feels like you: often just the two of you, sometimes with your closest people, usually outdoors. Less schedule, more space for what happens between you.
A destination wedding is a wedding in a place you choose – the Alps, the Dolomites, Madeira, Lofoten, Gran Canaria or anywhere in the world. Many of my couples do both: they get married in an intimate setting and travel somewhere that feels like them.
Yes. That is the heart of my work. I got married in the Tyrolean mountains myself – not big, not by a rigid plan, but in a way that felt like us. Today I photograph couples who want to get married just the two of them: in the mountains, by a lake, in the Alps or far from home.
You do not need a long guest list. You need quiet, space, and someone who holds the day with you instead of staging it. More about why I work this way is on my About page.
It means fewer guests – or none – less timeline, more closeness. Some call it a micro wedding, an intimate wedding, or simply: we do it our way.
That can be a mountain ceremony with two witnesses, an elopement just the two of you, or a small celebration after the civil wedding. I photograph the day as it is – not as a traditional wedding is supposed to look.
A mountain wedding often begins before the vows: the hike, the light, the weather, the silence. I plan location, timing and a plan B with you so you feel safe. As a mountain person with training in high-altitude tours and meteorology, that matters to me.
Summit, alpine pasture, lake or Dolomites: a mountain wedding does not need a stage. It needs you, the landscape, and time. Packages are on the pricing page.
I am based in Upper Austria and photograph mainly in the Alps: Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland, South Tyrol. For destination weddings I travel – to Madeira, Lofoten, Venice, Gran Canaria and further when the place fits you.
Stories live in the elopement journal – from hiking weddings to mountain ceremonies.
Probably not. I am an elopement and destination wedding photographer. My couples want to get married just the two of them, in an intimate setting, or in the mountains. If you want a large celebration with many guests and a fixed schedule, I am not the right photographer – and that is completely fine.
If a quieter day feels like you, write to me via the contact page.
Yes. For many of my couples the ceremony in the mountains is where everything comes together: the words, the vastness, the vows without church walls. I photograph the ceremony and the day around it – and can help you plan the location.
More here: Mountain wedding ceremony.
Yes. Destination wedding means we go where your story belongs. Some couples marry in the Alps and celebrate later elsewhere. Others travel on purpose – island, fjord, old town, summit.
If you are already married and want to relive the day, I also photograph after-wedding shoots: in the mountains or, for example, in Venice.
You are not alone. I do not put you through a posing programme. I walk with you while you hike, laugh, wait, take each other’s hand. The pictures happen in between – unstaged, even in the rain. Our own after-wedding photos in Tyrol were made in the rain. That is what made them feel real.
