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A white wooden pavilion on stilts at the end of a pier on Lake Constance at Bregenz, with gulls flying low over the calm blue water and a wooded hill rising from the shore on the right

Wedding photographers in Vorarlberg & on Lake Constance

Lake Constance and the festival stage on the water at Bregenz, the wooden villages of the Bregenzerwald and the snow of Lech — lakeside summers, Alpine winters.

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Vorarlberg, Austria’s westernmost province, climbs from Lake Constance into the Alps between Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Bregenz, the capital, lies on the lake below the Pfänder; Dornbirn and Feldkirch, with its medieval old town, follow the Rhine valley south. Behind them rise the wooden villages of the Bregenzerwald, the Kleinwalsertal and the Großes Walsertal, a UNESCO biosphere reserve, the Montafon below the Silvretta and, at the Arlberg, Lech and Zürs.

Weddings move between the lake and the mountains: the civil ceremony at the Standesamt — in Lech and Zürs alone, some forty couples a year — then a chapel in the meadows, a hut reached by lift or a boat on the lake. In the Bregenzerwald women still wear the Juppe, the valley’s pleated black dress, to weddings.

An autumn morning in the Bregenzerwald, seen from Sulzberg: mist lying in the valleys between wooded hills, green meadows with farmhouses and a winding road below, a village catching the sun on a far slope and snowy peaks in the distance
Schattenburg castle, its white keep and walls on a wooded hillside above the old town of Feldkirch, with a round stone tower and steep tiled roofs in front and bare trees on the slope behind
The rocky peak of the Omeshorn rising above a band of cloud, with the village of Lech am Arlberg and its stone church tower in the valley below and a green alpine meadow sloping across the foreground

Photographers

1 photographer shoots here

They shoot here and know the light. Their whole weddings are on their pages.

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Through the year

When to marry in Vorarlberg & on Lake Constance

June to September is the season: long evenings by the lake, and the lifts, huts and high pastures open in the mountains. It is also the wettest time — at Bregenz 190 to 200 mm a month from June to August, on 13 to 15 days, with storms on some afternoons — so plan cover for every moment outside. September is calmer. At the Arlberg winter is a second season, from December to mid-April; between the seasons its lifts stand still.

  1. January: Good with planning
  2. February: Good with planning
  3. March: Good with planning
  4. April: Quieter
  5. May: Good with planning
  6. June: Best
  7. July: Best
  8. August: Best
  9. September: Best
  10. October: Good with planning
  11. November: Quieter
  12. December: Good with planning
  • Spring and early summerFruit trees in blossom in the Rhine valley, fresh green meadows below snowy peaks, and in early summer the herds moving up to the high pastures.
  • SummerWarm days by the lake, about 20 °C in the water in July, and the Bregenz Festival on its lake stage from late July to late August; up on the pastures, the dairies make the summer’s cheese.
  • Autumn and winterFrom late August the cattle come down from the pastures decked with flowers, and in October the larches turn gold; then fog settles over the lake while the peaks stay in sun, and from December the Arlberg lies under snow.

In numbers

Hottest month, average high
July · 24.7°C
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Average high in the best months
Jun 22.9°C · Jul 24.7°C · Aug 24.2°C · Sep 19.4°C
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Days with 1 mm of rain or more, best months
Jun 14.5 · Jul 13.3 · Aug 12.8 · Sep 11.2
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Sunset on 21 June
21:22 (Bregenz)
NOAA

Weather station: Bregenz, normals 1991–2020 · Checked 30 October 2026

Places

Where couples marry here

The kinds of places — ask your photographer which ones they know well.

  1. The lakeshore at Bregenz

    The promenade, the harbour mole with its west-facing Sunset Steps and the festival’s lake stage, the largest in the world; a boat for the dinner, the Pfänder’s cable car for the view.

  2. Bregenzerwald villages

    Farmhouses clad in wooden shingles beside new timber buildings in 23 villages — Schwarzenberg’s centre among the finest — with Alpine pastures above, where cheese is made all summer.

  3. Chapels and mountain huts

    Small chapels in the meadows and huts reached by lift or on foot; above Lech, couples marry on a summit reached by cable car, in summer or in the snow.

  4. Old towns and viewpoints

    Feldkirch’s arcades and towers below its castle, and the Karren above Dornbirn, whose cable car runs until late to a glass walkway looking over the Rhine valley to the lake.

Light

How the light falls

Vorarlberg is Austria’s westernmost province, so its summer evenings are the country’s longest: at midsummer the sun sets at about twenty past nine in Bregenz, more than twenty minutes after Vienna, over the open water seen from the harbour; in December, at half past four, behind the Swiss hills. In the deep valleys it leaves much earlier, behind the ridges. From October to February fog often lies over the lake while the mountains are in sun: in November and December Bregenz gets a quarter of the sunshine possible, Warth, at 1,478 metres, nearly half.

Travel

Getting there

Fly into Zurich: Bregenz is an hour and a half away by car, or an hour and a quarter by the direct train every two hours, and Lech about two and a half hours. St. Gallen-Altenrhein, across the Rhine, and Friedrichshafen, across the lake, are half an hour from Bregenz but have few flights; Innsbruck is an hour and a half from Lech. Lech and Zürs are reached over the Flexen Pass, open all year — in winter with winter tyres, sometimes chains — and the Kleinwalsertal only by road from Oberstdorf, in Germany.

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