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Destination wedding in Germany

A wedding in Germany, planned from abroad — twelve hours, with the two days around it accounted for.

From
€2,400
Duration
12 hours
Edited photos
600
Destination wedding
  • Example photograph: Destination wedding
  • Example photograph: Destination wedding
  • Example photograph: Destination wedding
  • Example photograph: Destination wedding
  • Example photograph: Destination wedding

What’s included

  • 600 edited photographs
  • Twelve hours on the day itself
  • Location scouting and running order planned over video
  • A rehearsal-dinner or welcome-drinks hour the evening before
  • Gallery within three weeks

Destination wedding

From€2,400

A wedding in Germany, planned from abroad — twelve hours, with the two days around it accounted for.

Duration
12 hours
Photographer
One vetted local photographer
Edited photos
600
Gallery
Private online gallery, full resolution
Delivery
Gallery within three weeks
Locations
Suggestions and planning by your photographer
Extra costs
None. Admission or permits, if a location needs them, are named before you confirm.

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You don’t have to scroll through profiles. We know the photographers in our network and suggest the one who fits.

  1. 01You tell us the place, the occasion, the date and your language.
  2. 02We choose the photographer who works there and suits your session.
  3. 03Within 4 hours you get our suggestion with a fixed price. Nothing is booked until you confirm.
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Where to book destination wedding

Each of these places has its own page, with the spots and the hours that work for this session.

How it works

Your photo session in 3 simple steps

  1. 01

    Tell us what you need

    Choose your destination, session type and preferred date. It takes about a minute.

  2. 02

    Meet your local photographer

    Within 4 hours we suggest a vetted photographer who fits your request, with the fixed price.

  3. 03

    Enjoy your session

    Your photographer handles the shoot. For most sessions, your edited gallery arrives within 48–72 hours.

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Questions about destination wedding

What do we need to know about marrying in Germany?

Only a civil ceremony at a Standesamt is legally binding in Germany, and a church or humanist ceremony has no legal effect on its own. For non-residents the registry office requires documents that can take months to assemble, and some couples marry legally at home and hold the ceremony here. That is a question for the Standesamt rather than for a photographer — but it changes the shape of the day, so it belongs in the first conversation.

Destination wedding

Only the Standesamt is legally binding

A wedding in Germany planned from abroad has one legal peculiarity that rebuilds the whole day around it: only a civil ceremony at a Standesamt is legally binding. A church or humanist ceremony has no legal effect of its own, which means most couples have two events rather than one — a short appointment at a registry office, and the ceremony their guests actually attend. For non-residents the registry office also requires documents that can take months to assemble, and a fair number of couples conclude that marrying legally at home and holding the ceremony here is simpler.

That is a question for the Standesamt and not for a photographer, but it changes the shape of the day entirely, so it belongs in the first conversation rather than the last. The rest is logistics that work better over video than over email: a location walk-through, a running order, and the hour the ceremony should start given the month and which way the venue faces. Twelve hours on the day, an hour of welcome drinks the evening before, six hundred edited photographs and a gallery within three weeks.

Where in Germany you marry shapes the logistics more than the photographs. We work in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Leipzig, and in Heidelberg, Dresden, the Black Forest and around Lake Constance. Palace gardens and other state-run sites can charge their own fees for photography, and those are itemised in the quote so that nothing turns up unannounced on the day. If most of your guests are flying in, the welcome-drinks hour the evening before is where the frames of people seeing each other again tend to happen, because a wedding day on a timetable rarely leaves room for them.

To start, send the date, the region and a rough guest count through the form. The reply comes by phone or email, and a first call is arranged at an hour that works across your time zone. The fixed price is confirmed in writing before anything is booked, no deposit is asked for a quote, and anything that would change it — extra hours, a second photographer, faster delivery — is stated first. The photographs are yours for private use, including sending a gallery link to guests back home. Anyone attending who would rather not appear should have an easy way to say so, and the invitation is the simplest place for it.

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From €200 · Fixed prices · No hidden fees

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