# 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.

- URL: https://lensandvows.com/austria/vorarlberg
- Austria: https://lensandvows.com/austria (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/austria.md)
- Português: https://lensandvows.com/pt/austria/vorarlberg.md
- Español: https://lensandvows.com/es/austria/vorarlberg.md
- Italiano: https://lensandvows.com/it/austria/vorarlberg.md
- Deutsch: https://lensandvows.com/de/austria/vorarlberg.md
- Français: https://lensandvows.com/fr/austria/vorarlberg.md
- Lens & Vows: https://lensandvows.com/

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.

## When to marry in Vorarlberg & on Lake Constance

- **Best:** June, July, August, September
- **Good with planning:** January, February, March, May, October, December

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.

- **Spring and early summer:** Fruit 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.
- **Summer:** Warm 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 winter:** From 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 — GeoSphere Austria: https://data.hub.geosphere.at/dataset/klima-v2-1m
- **Average high in the best months:** Jun 22.9°C · Jul 24.7°C · Aug 24.2°C · Sep 19.4°C — GeoSphere Austria: https://data.hub.geosphere.at/dataset/klima-v2-1m
- **Days with 1 mm of rain or more, best months:** Jun 14.5 · Jul 13.3 · Aug 12.8 · Sep 11.2 — GeoSphere Austria: https://data.hub.geosphere.at/dataset/klima-v2-1m
- **Sunset on 21 June:** 21:22 (Bregenz) — NOAA: https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/

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

## Where couples marry here

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

- **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.
- **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.
- **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.
- **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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Photographers in Vorarlberg & on Lake Constance

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

- [Daniel B.](https://lensandvows.com/photographers/daniel-beiler) — Based in: Feldkirch · Shoots in: Vorarlberg & Lake Constance, Tyrol & Innsbruck · from €600 · Speaks: German, English · Style: Documentary, Editorial (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/photographers/daniel-beiler.md)

https://lensandvows.com/photographers?region=vorarlberg
https://lensandvows.com/photographers?region=vorarlberg&sort=rating (Highest rated)

## Read before you plan

- [Getting married in Austria as foreigners: the Standesamt, the church or a free ceremony](https://lensandvows.com/journal/getting-married-in-austria): Austria is one of the few countries in Europe where a couple from abroad can marry legally without living there. How the civil wedding works, the documents and fees, the palaces and castles a registry office will marry you in, church weddings, free ceremonies and where the photographer fits in. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/getting-married-in-austria.md)
- [What a wedding photographer costs in Austria, and what changes the price](https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-photographer-cost-austria): Austrian photographers’ own price lists put a full wedding day at €1,600–€3,725 as of October 2026, with a median of €2,200. Sixteen lists region by region, with what they include and their dates, beside Bridebook’s estimates and a survey; what moves the price — two ceremonies, the Agape, the mountains, VAT and the small-business rule — and how paying works on Lens & Vows. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-photographer-cost-austria.md)
- [The best time to marry in Austria: the months, the regions, the weather and the light](https://lensandvows.com/journal/best-time-to-marry-in-austria): Month by month and region by region: when Austrians marry, how warm and how wet each place is, the lakes’ summer, the harvest and the larches in autumn, Christmas markets, balls and snow in winter — and what time the sun sets, from Vienna to Innsbruck. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/best-time-to-marry-in-austria.md)
- [How to choose a wedding photographer: the steps, and the questions to ask](https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer): The decision in order — whole weddings, style, availability, the package, the contract and deposit, cancellation, delivery and a conversation — then a checklist of questions, with why each one matters. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer.md)