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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
Bride and groom posing at the beach for a wedding portrait by a coastal, rocky path | Seaside wedding photography
Didier Ropers
The bride and groom eloped to a picturesque lake, where they tied the knot in a romantic ceremony
Lynne Kennedy
Sealed with a sunset kiss, surrounded by love and cherished by their closest ones
Lucy Schultz

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 pop-up, civil ceremony, 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, traveling destination wedding photographer. Since 2010, he has been creating documentary visions and reportages at weddings. He has visited numerous countries with his medium format film camera. His passionate and humanistic approach is...

Sylvain Bouzat

Lyon, FR *Now booking Valais weddings.
146
2
72
4200 (EUR)
BW wedding photography, elopement coverage and engagement portraits by Castille Alma

Castille Alma is a French wedding photographer based in Lyon. With a background in communication, she discovered her passion for photography through a collaboration with a photographer she had hired for a campaign. For two years, she learned the technical aspects of...

Castille Alma

Lyon, FR *Now booking Valais weddings.
48
88
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: How can couples find Valais photographers for pre-wedding engagement portraits?
A: The WPJA issues Diamond Awards for Valais wedding photographers to showcase their best engagement photography work. These awards are given to photographers who prove that they have an ability to be creative, artistic, and intuitive while working on-location with couples who are newly engaged.
Q: Can a wedding photojournalist create artistic portraits on my Valais wedding day?
A: While wedding photojournalists strive to capture candid moments on the wedding day, our photographers also are skilled artists who can compose powerful portraits. If you have a specific vision of what types of images you want from your wedding day, look at the top-ranked Valais wedding photographers who have earned Artistic Guild awards for portrait and detail images.
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.
WPJA Communiqué: Featured Wedding Photography Articles
Vows, Crowds, and Nerves: Avoid Stress with a Small Wedding
While some of us were fortunate enough to be born as extroverts, not everyone feels the same way. For a good chunk of the population, any number of the typical wedding day traditions can inspire anxiety and existential dread. This day is all about you, yes, but does that...Read more
Jola Mulder, of Overijssel, is a wedding photographer for
Bringing it Home: The Joys of a Backyard Wedding
Oftentimes when people are considering a venue for their weddings, they search for a location away from home, whether that be ten minutes or ten hours, all just to find what they already have: a place that holds meaning for them, that feels comfortable, or that they find...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

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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