Stefanie & Raphael — Full wedding day with an old VW bus in the mountains

The place

Tyrol & Innsbruck

Innsbruck below the Nordkette, high pastures with wooden huts and chapels, and Kitzbühel in the snow — summer elopements and winter weddings.

September is one of the easiest months to marry here.

The light

How the light falls there

The limestone of the Nordkette and the Wilder Kaiser glows pink in the first and last sun while the valleys are already in shade. In the deep valleys the sun drops behind the ridges long before it sets, so photographers here time portraits by the mountains, not the clock: at midsummer it sets around a quarter past nine in Innsbruck, in December before half past four. On a föhn day, when the warm south wind blows, the peaks look close enough to touch.