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Valais Wedding Photographers

Our Valais photographers also provide documentary-style coverage in: Canton of Valais, Swiss Confederation, Sion, Southern Alpine Canton, Ticino, Grisons, Lower Valais, Central Valais, Upper Valais

Valais Wedding Photography, Engagement Photo Sessions + Elopements

Intimate Wedding Photography in Valais - Capturing the Joy of Small Celebrations - Discover the best Valais photographers specializing in intimate marriages. Couples are embracing the trend of smaller, more meaningful celebrations. Let our talented photographers capture the joy and intimacy of your wedding day.

By planning a simple Valais elopement, couples are able to stay present in the moment and fully absorb the impact of their wedding day. Given the fact that many couples feel more natural and at ease in intimate settings, it's no surprise that some of the most breathtaking wedding images come from elopements.

The WPJA has an abundance of top-ranked, Valais documentary wedding photographers available right now who understand that some weddings and elopements can’t wait. Find yours today!
Recent WPJA WedElope Story Awards
The bride and groom had a small, civil wedding ceremony at City Hall, filled with laughter and light moments that created a fun and memorable experience
Tobias Schnurr
Before the intimate wedding ceremony at City Hall, the bride and groom joyfully laughed together, excited to start the rest of their lives as one
Wenjie Han
The newlywed couple in a breathtaking mountain wedding ceremony photo, with the groom taking his blushing bride into his arms and giving her a passionate kiss to mark their first moment as husband and wife
Stacy Gillespie

Valais Photographers for Large or Small Weddings

Shooting an elopement or small Valais wedding event is a wedding photojournalist’s dream: a fairly open schedule with lots of breathing space for creativity – it’s just the photographer, the couple, the officiant, and perhaps a few select companions.

Switzerland WPJA members are ready to document any civil ceremony, pop-up, secret, or elopement wedding, even if it is a Monday-Thursday ceremony. Search for the “Can Shoot Weddings on Short Notice!” message on the listings below.

View Award-Winning Pictures from Valais Wedding Venues

2 Valais Wedding Photographers...

Engagement Portraits by top Wedding and Elopement Photographer Sylvain Bouzat

Sylvain Bouzat is an experienced destination wedding photographer who has been capturing real moments at weddings since 2010. With his artistic approach, he creates documentary-style photos and reportages, specializing in elopements and engagement portraits. Sylvain's...

Sylvain Bouzat

Lyon, FR *Now booking Valais weddings.
146
2
73
4200 (EUR)
BW wedding photography, elopement coverage and engagement portraits by Castille Alma

With a documentary approach, Castille Alma utilizes her expertise in storytelling and visual aesthetics to create stunning wedding, elopement, and family photographs, drawing on her background in communication.

Castille Alma

Lyon, FR *Now booking Valais weddings.
48
94
2300 (EUR)

Map of Wedding Photojournalists Serving Valais Couples

Valais Wedding, Elopement and Engagement Images by WPJA Photographers

Below are some Valais wedding photography samples from the world’s best wedding photographers of the WPJA. Some of these Valais marriage pictures might be artistic portraits, details, or documentary-style images that have come from getting ready sessions, wedding ceremonies, reception venues, or Valais engagement portrait sessions with couples.

A serene winter wedding portrait captured in Chandolin, Valais, Switzerland, showcasing a couple in a tranquil snowy setting at their outdoor venue.
In the elegant Guarda Golf Hotel in Switzerland, the bride's getting ready chaos is beautifully captured as everything falls into place in her room.
A couple's engagement portrait in Martigny showcases their affectionate embrace near the minimalist sculpture, cleverly emphasizing the vibrant red color through artistic perspective.
In the engagement portrait, the future newlyweds are sitting on a rock at Belalp
At Guarda Golf Hotel in Crans Montana, the groom was the centerpiece of the BW wedding portrait
Champéry - Swiss wedding Photo showing the bride and groom getting sprayed by guests

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Who are the best Valais wedding photographers for small elopements?
A: The WPJA is proud to have some of the top Valais documentary wedding photographers for elopements. Our members are able to submit WedElope Stories that take you step-by-step, via a 9 image picture story, through the unique and moving elopements that take place around the world.
Q: How can couples find reviews of Valais wedding photographers?
A: We call them Client Letters. At the WPJA, we decided more than 20 years ago to avoid incorporating those third-person testimonials and endorsements that are found all too often in advertisements. Instead, we elevated our listings with the use of Client Letters, which represent the actual words and feelings of the clients who booked those Valais wedding photographers for their own wedding.
Q: How can couples find top-ranked Valais wedding photographers?
A: The WPJA created the original wedding photographer ranking systems. Our innovative system is based on contest winning points, meaning that the Valais photographers you see at the top of your search results page have recently won the most — and the most recent — contest awards. Our contests judge photographers based on their creativity, style, composure, and ability to capture the heart of any couple's story on their wedding day.
WPJA Communiqué: Featured Wedding Photography Articles
An Unforgettable Romance: The Intimacy of an Elopement
While some people live for the hustle and bustle of a big wedding with extravagant décor and an impossibly long guest list, others find these kinds of weddings to be too much hoopla, preferring instead something simpler and quieter, allowing for more intimacy between them...Read more
What is a Modern Elopement?
WHAT EXACTLY DOES IT MEAN TO ELOPE? If you look up the definition of “elope” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary , you’ll find a plethora of meanings making it quite clear how polarizing the word has become, and how it has transformed and evolved with the passage of time and...Read more
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Top 4 Types of Small Weddings to Make Your Day Truly Yours
Everyone always says that your wedding day is all about you. But let’s face it; that’s not always actually the case. Many couples stress over guest lists, planning, expenses, and all the frills and traditions of your standard large wedding that they may or may not even be...Read more

WPJA Communiqué: Viewpoints
Elopements: Traditional and Modern
The oldsters among the WPJA ranks no doubt remember when 'to elope' meant, in Merriam-Webster’s definition, “to run away secretly with the intention of getting married, usually without parental consent.” Many wedding photographers have gone on the lam with couples who did just that. However, even Merriam-Webster now acknowledges that “elope appears to have become shorthand for ‘ small destination weddings ,’ a ‘ wedding that is not financially insane ,’ or a ‘ wedding that allows us to not invite all the people we would rather not invite .’” Smaller Weddings are... Read more
What is Reportage?
On Instagram and elsewhere, one can see images labeled as #photojournalism or #reportage when they are, in fact, merely photos. I say "merely," even though photography has been my career's great passion. But it's because of that passion and my respect for the work of actual photojournalists that I am particularly bothered to see wedding photographers call their work "reportage." That word properly used actually means something important beyond just a stylistic conceit. By contrast, however, I'm the lead cheerleader for those practitioners of #weddingphotojournalism ... Read more

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