Eline Tasma – Media & Press

Summary

Eline Tasma photographs and designs destination elopements and documents micro-weddings across Switzerland, Italy, and Iceland. She works with ten couples per year to handle the design and documentation of each day without rushing the process. Her photography is responsive to the weather and what is actually happening, rather than being locked to a fixed schedule.

Eline works primarily with internationally minded couples who celebrate deliberately and privately – choosing an honest experience for themselves over a performance for an audience.

Her work is defined by the philosophy of Patgific – a Romansh word from the Swiss Alps describing full-temperature joy without performance. It isn’t about moving slowly or being quiet; it’s about the lack of performance. Popping champagne on a sunlit ridge, hiking fast when excited, or sitting in warm grass – the energy level doesn’t matter as much as the reality of the moment.

Her photography sits between documentary and editorial. True-to-life editing: bright days come out bright, the colors present in the landscape are the colors in the image. When she shoots in black and white, it’s because something in the frame asks for it – the scale of the landscape or the texture of a moment.

Founder

Eline Tasma – Photographer & Experience Designer

Eline grew up between the Netherlands and the Swiss Alps, where her father painted in the ruins and river valleys of the Surselva region. This upbringing gave her a painterly eye for composition, making her images feel crafted rather than just taken. Weekends were spent in galleries and exhibitions, deepening that eye for what makes an image last.

Before her work in elopements, Eline worked as an eBay fraud analyst and English teacher for adults – roles that built the analytical precision and cross-cultural communication she now applies to international elopement logistics. She then worked as an art mediator in the Netherlands – facilitating the connection between audiences and works of art. She moved from mediating between a viewer and a painting to being with people in landscapes that move them.

She has lived in six European countries – the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Malta – and speaks Dutch, English, and Spanish fluently, with working German, French, and Italian. In 2024, her family lived halfway up a mountain in the Swiss Alps with no road access. These landscapes are not places she visits.

“I didn’t build a life around this work. I found work inside the life I was already living.”

Educational background: European Studies BA, TESOL Certificate (Trinity College London), Writing for Performance.

Training: Advanced training with Adventure Instead Academy, Leave No Trace certified, LGBTQ+ Inclusive Wedding Pro certified.

Recognition & Awards

Judge, 10th Elopement Photography Awards – 2026
Junebug Weddings Best of the Best Destination Wedding Photography – 2025
Junebug Weddings Best of the Best Wedding Photography – 2024
6x Elopement Photography Awards Winner
Featured in Rangefinder, BRIDES, Business Insider, Dancing With Her, Wandering Weddings, Junebug Weddings, Photobug

Services

Elopement photography & experience design

Photography, location curation, and day-of guidance. Eline handles the design and documentation as one process, keeping the day responsive to weather and the couple’s rhythm. Couples book vendors directly; Eline helps them choose the right ones. Eline works with couples primarily through video messages rather than lengthy email chains – keeping the process personal and allowing couples to hear the thinking behind every suggestion.

Micro-wedding photography

Documentary coverage of destination micro-weddings across Switzerland, Italy, and wider Europe. Eline moves through the day as it unfolds, working alongside planners and venue teams where present.

For both elopements and micro-weddings: every experience includes a curated high-resolution gallery and a handcrafted album.

Pricing: Most couples spend around €8000.

Hospitality & editorial

A limited number of hospitality projects for boutique hotels and lodges that align with her landscape-driven aesthetic.

Expert Commentary Topics

Navigating overtourism in iconic landscapes

Private land access, local landowner relationships, and what sustainable elopement photography actually requires in Switzerland, the Dolomites, and Iceland.

Adaptive elopements

Designing high-altitude, remote experiences for couples navigating chronic illness, mobility needs, or health conditions – without losing the aliveness of being somewhere genuinely wild.

The post-Instagram elopement

How the Patgific mindset is reshaping what couples want – and why an honest experience is replacing the photoshoot as the new luxury.

Where I Work

Switzerland

Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald, Interlaken, Zermatt, Engadin, Alpstein, Surselva, Aletsch. Venues include Hotel Beausite Zermatt, 3100 Kulmhotel Gornergrat, Bergwelt Grindelwald, Schloss Spiez, Hotel Belvedere Spiez, Crans Ambassador. Helicopter access via Air Zermatt and Air Glacier.

Italy

Alpe di Siusi, Cadini di Misurina, Lago di Braies, Seceda, Tre Cime, Cortina area. Venues include Paradiso Pure Living, Almhotel Col Raimer, Rifugio Col Pradat, Hotel Drumlerhof. Lake Como (Villa del Balbianello, Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni), Lake Garda, Tuscany (Borgo di Castelvecchio, Hotel La Posta Bagno Vignoni). Collaborated with Weddings in Tuscany and La Rosa Canina Firenze. Umbria (Castello di Montegualandro), Amalfi Coast (Basilica di Sant’Eustachio), Puglia (Masseria San Nicola Fasano).

Netherlands & Belgium

Slot Doddendael, Kasteel Roosendaal, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Restaurant Heron Utrecht, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Hotel New York Rotterdam, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Museum Fenix. Belgium: 1898 The Post Ghent, Blanc Fixe Drongen, Faculty Club Leuven. Collaborated with Stories by Mabel and Wildflowers and Wodka.

Elsewhere in Europe

France (Château de Preisch in Moselle, Château Gérard in Noyers Burgundy), Spain (Sitges, Frigiliana, Barcelona, Mallorca), Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark (Samsø), Iceland (Snæfellsnes, South Coast, Golden Circle. Built around chasing the best conditions, stargazing and northern lights, and reaching iconic places before the crowds arrive).