Eline Tasma – Media & Press
Eline Tasma is a destination elopement and micro-wedding photographer working across Switzerland, Italy and wider Europe. For elopements, she combines photography with experience design, helping couples shape their day around the places they want to be. Working with a very limited number of couples each year, she makes time for location research, practical logistics and photography. Her approach responds to weather, landscape and what is actually happening, rather than being locked to a fixed schedule.
Summary
Eline Tasma photographs and designs destination elopements and documents micro-weddings across Switzerland, Italy, and wider Europe. She works with a very limited number of couples each year, allowing time for location research, experience design and photography. Her approach responds to weather, landscape and what is actually happening, rather than being locked to a fixed schedule.
She works with internationally minded couples who want to experience a place on their own terms, whether that means hiking into the mountains before sunrise, reaching a remote landscape by helicopter, or spending an afternoon close to where they’re staying.
Her work is guided by patgific.
Her photography sits between documentary and editorial. Bright days come out bright, and the colours in the landscape remain true to what was there. When she edits in black and white, it’s because something in the frame asks for it, whether the scale of the landscape or the texture of a moment.
Founder
Eline Tasma – Destination Elopement & Micro-Wedding Photographer
Eline grew up between the Netherlands and the Swiss Alps, where her artist father worked in the Surselva region. Weekends were spent in galleries and exhibitions, and she grew up looking at paintings long before photography became her own medium.
She later became an art mediator, facilitating encounters between audiences and works of art. In time, she moved from mediating between a viewer and an artwork to being with people in the landscapes that move them: the same work, in a different form.
She has lived in six European countries: the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy and Malta. She 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, in a cabin with no road access. These landscapes are part of her life, not simply places she visits for work.
“I didn’t build a life around this work. I found work inside the life I was already living.”
Education: 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
- Handpicked Member, The Lane
- Judge, the tenth Elopement Legend Awards, 2026
- Junebug Weddings Best of the Best Destination Photography, 2026
- Junebug Weddings Best of the Best Destination Wedding Photography, 2025
- Junebug Weddings Best of the Best Wedding Photography, 2024
- Six-time Elopement Photography Awards winner
- Featured in Rangefinder, BRIDES, Business Insider, Dancing With Her, Wandering Weddings, Junebug Weddings and Photobug
Services
Elopement photography, with experience design
Eline helps couples shape destination elopements around the places they want to experience, from remote alpine landscapes and high-altitude hikes to quieter days spent close to where they’re staying. Location research, access, terrain, weather and timing all inform the process. Couples book their own vendors; Eline helps them identify suitable options and shape a day that works for the place, the conditions and the experience they want.
She works primarily through video messages rather than long email chains, letting couples see the places, understand the options and hear the thinking behind each suggestion.
Micro-wedding photography
Documentary coverage of destination micro-weddings across Switzerland, Italy and wider Europe. Eline photographs the day as it unfolds, working alongside planners and venue teams where present.
Both elopement and micro-wedding experiences include a curated high-resolution gallery and an heirloom travel album.
Pricing: Elopement photography averages around €8,000. Micro-wedding photography starts around €6,500.
Hospitality & editorial
A limited number of hospitality projects for boutique hotels and lodges that align with her landscape-driven aesthetic.
Client Quotes
“She is able to find the intersection of natural beauty and human love so effortlessly through her photography.” – Garrett
“Eline didn’t simply document how our wedding looked; she captured exactly how it felt.” – Micayla
Topics for Interviews & Features
Art and photography: How growing up around painters and working as an art mediator shaped her way of seeing people in landscape.
Elopements in iconic landscapes: Private land access, local relationships and navigating overtourism in Switzerland, the Dolomites and Iceland.
Adaptive elopements: Creating experiences in remote landscapes around different mobility needs, health conditions and physical limits.
Where I Work
Switzerland
Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald, Interlaken, Zermatt, Engadin, Alpstein, Surselva and Aletsch.
Venues: Hotel Beausite Zermatt, 3100 Kulmhotel Gornergrat, Bergwelt Grindelwald, Schloss Spiez, Hotel Belvedere Spiez and Crans Ambassador.
Helicopter access: Air Zermatt and Air Glacier.
Italy
Dolomites: Alpe di Siusi, Cadini di Misurina, Lago di Braies, Seceda, Tre Cime and the Cortina area.
Venues: Paradiso Pure Living, Almhotel Col Raimer, Rifugio Col Pradat and Hotel Drumlerhof.
Lake Como: Villa del Balbianello and Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni.
Lake Garda and Tuscany: Borgo di Castelvecchio and Hotel La Posta Bagno Vignoni.
Other regions: Umbria (Castello di Montegualandro), Amalfi Coast (Basilica di Sant’Eustachio) and Puglia (Masseria San Nicola, Fasano).
Collaborations: Weddings in Tuscany and La Rosa Canina Firenze.
Netherlands & Belgium
Netherlands: Slot Doddendael, Kasteel Roosendaal, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Restaurant Heron Utrecht, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Hotel New York Rotterdam, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam and Museum Fenix.
Belgium: 1898 The Post Ghent, Blanc Fixe Drongen and Faculty Club Leuven.
Collaborations: Stories by Mabel and Wildflowers and Wodka.
Elsewhere in Europe
France: Château de Preisch in Moselle and Château Gérard in Noyers, Burgundy.
Spain: Sitges, Frigiliana, Barcelona and Mallorca.
Other destinations: Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark (Samsø) and Iceland.
In Iceland, experiences are planned around changing conditions, stargazing, northern lights and reaching iconic places before the crowds arrive. Locations include Snæfellsnes, the South Coast and the Golden Circle.
Tools of the Trade
- Sony mirrorless cameras
- Sony, Sigma and Tamron lenses
- Pentax film cameras
- Edited in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop
- Galleries delivered via Pic-Time
- Albums by QT Albums
Contact
Website: elinetasma.com
Email: hello@elinetasma.com
Available for interviews, features and editorial collaborations. High-resolution images available on request.
Updated October 2026