Elopements Switzerland
Elopements Switzerland
What is an elopement?
– How to choose – Elopement VS wedding
– 5 reasons why people elope
So, what is an elopement?
What is an elopement?
HOW TO DEFINE ELOPEMENT
Elopement weddings have come a long way from their secret and sudden origins. Nowadays, elopements are intentional, intimate celebrations of love. Unlike traditional weddings that have long guest lists.
Elopements focus on the couple’s connection and shared experiences. Picture this: exchanging vows on a mountaintop, in a serene forest clearing, or on a secluded beach. It’s all about choosing a location that speaks to your unique love story.
How to choose elopement photographer?
WHAT ARE THE –
Top 5 reasons to elope
- Intimacy: Elopements offer an incredibly intimate experience for couples, allowing them to focus solely on each other without the distractions and pressures that often come with traditional weddings. It’s a chance to celebrate your love in a deeply personal way.
- Cost-Effectiveness: Traditional weddings can be quite expensive, with costs quickly adding up for venues, catering, decorations, and more. Elopements typically involve fewer guests and less elaborate arrangements, resulting in significant savings. This can free up funds for other priorities, like travel, explorations and having the adventure of life.
- Flexibility and Spontaneity: Elopements allow couples to be spontaneous and flexible in their wedding plans. Whether it’s choosing an exotic destination, exchanging vows on a whim, or simply avoiding the stress of elaborate planning, elopements offer the freedom to create a wedding experience that truly reflects the couple’s desires and personalities.
- Reduced Stress: Planning a traditional wedding can be overwhelming and stressful, from managing guest lists to coordinating vendors and dealing with family expectations and being in the center of attention. Elopements simplify the process, eliminating many of these stressors and allowing couples to focus on what truly matters: their love for each other.
- Adventure and Romance: Elopements often involve unique and adventurous locations, from picturesque mountaintops to secluded beaches and everything in between. This sense of adventure adds an extra layer of romance and excitement to the wedding experience, creating memories that will last a lifetime.
TOP 5 REASONS TO HAVE A
Traditional wedding
These are 5 main reasons why you’d want a traditional wedding:
- Cultural Significance: Many people choose a traditional wedding to honor and celebrate their cultural heritage. These ceremonies often include customs, rituals, and symbols that have been passed down through generations, reinforcing a sense of identity and belonging (this can of course also happen during an elopement).
- Family Expectations: Family expectations and traditions play a significant role in wedding planning for some couples. They may feel pressured to adhere to certain customs or rituals to please their families or to maintain harmony within their social circles.
- Symbolism and Meaning: Traditional weddings are often rich in symbolism, representing aspects such as love, commitment, unity, and the joining of two families. Couples may choose to incorporate these rituals and symbols into their ceremony to imbue their union with deeper significance.
- Shared Experience: Traditional weddings provide a familiar and shared experience for the couple, their families, and their guests. By following established customs and rituals, couples can create a sense of unity and connection among all involved, fostering a feeling of belonging and togetherness. They simply want to share it with everyone.
- Sentimentality and Nostalgia: For many people, a traditional wedding represents a romantic ideal imbued with sentimentality and nostalgia. They may envision a classic ceremony with timeless elements such as a white dress, exchanging vows, and exchanging rings, which evoke feelings of romance and tradition.
Top 5 reasons NOT to elope
Share the Joy with Loved Ones: Traditional weddings let you celebrate with ALL your nearest and dearest. It’s like having a big family reunion mixed with a party! If that’s your thing a big wedding is for you.
Enjoy Special Traditions: Traditional weddings come with cool customs and rituals. Think of it like following a recipe for a super special day.
Make Memories with friends & family: You get to create awesome memories surrounded by the people you love. It’s like making a scrapbook of your happiest moments.
Lean on Your Squad: Planning a traditional wedding means often you’ve got your friends and family by your side. They’re like your personal cheerleaders and helpers.
Go Big or Go Home: Traditional weddings are a chance to go all out and celebrate your love in a big, fancy way. It’s like throwing the ultimate party to celebrate your love story!
6 qUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF
Is a big wedding right for you?
- Would you get excited about being the center of attention on your wedding day, saying your vows in front of a large group of people?
- Does The Idea Of An Intimate, Private Wedding Experience seem strange to you?
- Does spending a significant amount of money (between $20,000 and $40,000) on a one-day event seem like a wise investment for you?
- Do you enjoy the thought of the wedding planning process?
- Do you have no “family-drama” in your life? And does writing the guest-list feel like a joy?
- Does the traditions around big weddings feel like “you”?
If you anser YES to all of these questions it’s likely that a big wedding suits you.
How to choose elopement photographer
eLOPE OR BIG WEDDING?
6 questions to ask yourself to know if an elopement is for you?
adventure INSTEAD!
Ditch the crazy wedding stress and say “I do” on your own terms! Imagine saying your vows at sunset on a mountaintop with a killer view or a secluded beach. That’s the magic of elopement weddings: an intimate, adventurous way to celebrate your love story exactly how you want.
Forget about seating charts and a million table decorations. Elopements these days are all about planning an amazing experience for the two of you (or a few close loved ones). It’s about focusing on your love and starting your forever together in a memorable way that feels real and stress-free and that you will remember as the best day of your life!
Are you planning an elopement? Let’s create magic together! Contact us for an unforgettable photography experience that captures your love amidst nature’s beauty. Whether it’s the Swiss Alps, the sun-kissed beaches of California, or any other dream location, we’re here to make your elopement extraordinary.
Remember, your elopement is a celebration of love, authenticity, and adventure. Let’s tell your tailored to you elopement story through the lens! ✨
Why do people elope?
These are real reasons from my clients eloping with their own words:
“Neither of us imagined having a traditional wedding. We both do not like to be the center of attention in front of many people. We instead wanted to have somewhat of a private and special moment for ourselves and soak it all in at a destination far from home. We plan on having an intimate dinner with family and close friends in September near home to celebrate our marriage.””
“Both of us have previously been married so the idea of a traditional wedding with a bunch of guests wasn’t anything we ever wanted but we did want to do something that’s memorable and maybe a little romantic. We wanted a wedding that’s unlike anything anyone we know has done. Both of us enjoy adventure and traveling to beautiful places, what better location to elope than Switzerland.”
“We want to avoid the stress of planning a big wedding and have a truly intimate experience where the focus is on the two of us.”
“It’s just about us. We don’t want to be bothered trying to make everyone happy. We want an adventure to celebrate our love. I just want him all to myself. I want to be close to the earth, the air, the beauty of alps. I’ve always wanted to back pack Switzerland. I found the man who wants to do it with me! We’ve both been married before. My girls are 29 and 22. They are happy mom is happy and don’t mind. So… I want it to be our adventure. Our time to live our love and our moments together in the alps, close to God and the beauty around us. I also know that my fiancées late daughter will be in our minds… she brought us together. We will be close to her and she’ll be looking down and thankful that her dad is happy.”
“We want the main focus of the day to be each other, rather than the stress of putting on a “show” for the guests. “
“Keep it simple, focused on us and we get to celebrate in a way that will be the most memorable for us. “
“We chose to Elope because we believed our wedding day should be about us and not about making everyone around us happy. We can’t imagine a better way to start this new marriage chapter with an intimate elopement and trip just the two of us in a few of the most beautiful places in the world.”
“We wanted an intimate and laid back day. We were looking to have an experience with good food, amazing views and activities and keep the focus on just the two of us.”
“More intimate, more special with just the two of us.
“I really want to have an experience with my partner that I can share with just her and no one else in the world. When we got engaged, we actually spent the entire week engaged without telling anyone and without anyone knowing and it was so special and magical that she and I were the only ones that knew before telling our friends and family. Doing an elopement like this is the best way to do something similar where she and I can share this experience and have it in our memories as something that is super special because it’s just between the two of us. We’re planning to return to the States and have a celebratory event with our friends & family, but I would really like the actual wedding to be something special that is shared just between Dee and myself.”
“I have never dreamed of a huge white wedding in front of hundreds of people. I actually didn’t think I would get married until much later in life. And I always felt like the person and the commitment were more important than who/the audience was there to see it happen. I also feel like the stress of trying to please and accommodate everyone with a traditional wedding would make the entire process less enjoyable.”
And I always felt like the person and the commitment were more important than who/the audience was there to see it happen. I also feel like the stress of trying to please and accommodate everyone with a traditional wedding would make the entire process less enjoyable.
“I don’t want to spend my wedding day being concerned with everyone else’s comfort and entertainment. I don’t want to spend all this money on everyone else. I want to focus on the person I am uniting with and beginning the journey of the rest of my life with. This also prevents anyone from feeling less important than anyone else. I just want X and I to have fun and do something we love, while focusing totally on each other.”
“I have never desired the traditional wedding experience- I don’t like too much attention, I don’t like planning extensively, it stresses me out to be the “hostess”, I have no desire to spend that kind of money on a day that would give me more anxiety than anything else. I also have a HUGE extended family, of which no one could be cut from the guest list. We are all very close and everyone lives in the area, so it makes it really hard to not invite everyone (plus there is no one I would want to cut if I was going to have a traditional wedding), and it makes it hard to cut costs when you have a guest list of 100 just family members.
Aside from all of this, I have always dreamed of getting married on top of a mountain. I am a big snowboarder and have always loved the idea of getting married in the mountains. I was always worried that my parents would be disappointed if I didn’t have the big traditional wedding, but when X proposed right before our trip to Switzerland, they were on board with the idea of an elopement and we decided to go for it!”
I AM ALWAYS TRYING TO
PLAN FOR
the light, the adventure and intimacy
KIND WORDS
We recently had the pleasure of having Malin join us for our 2-day ski elopement in Switzerland, and words can’t capture the incredible experience and stunning images we received. After spontaneously booking Zermatt for our ski elopement, we searched and found Malin’s website. We loved the way she captured the adventure aspect for other couples, and we contacted her hoping she had availability on short notice. Malin was quick to respond and accommodated our time difference (Canada to Switzerland). We had a short timeline to plan but Malin was up for the challenge and worked with us to pull together an epic elopement.
We had an initial call to share our ideas and then a follow up where Malin presented a detailed customized itinerary plan for our day which is when we felt confident,
we had made the right choice. Throughout our elopement, Malin was organized, had memorized our schedule, kept us running on time for all our planned activities and was a constant source of positivity and creativity. We were so thankful for her suggestions throughout and are glad we trusted her expertise. She blended seamlessly into our adventure, capturing candid moments with such authenticity that every time we look at the photos it brings us back to those moments. We also appreciated the quick turnaround time for the sneak peek photos, it was exciting to receive them so quickly and couldn’t wait to share them with our family and friends. Malin also captured video throughout our day and was able to create an amazing video that summarized our elopement and included our ring exchange ceremony.
What truly sets Malin apart is Her ability to tell a story through Her photography. Each photo reflects the joy, love, and excitement we felt over those two magical days. We are in love with the results and would recommend Malin’s services to anyone looking for an adventure elopement photographer. The photos from our elopement are not just pictures; they are vivid memories that we will treasure for a lifetime. Malin’s work is nothing short of extraordinary and we feel she went above and beyond to make our elopement unique and unforgettable!
l & J
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