Daan Bachmann

Wedding — 2025

Wedding at Heidelberg town hall: Svenja & Felix

Svenja and Felix had a civil wedding at Heidelberg town hall, and the walk there, on foot through the old town, was part of it. Afterwards it was through the paper heart into a cloud of bubbles and on to the Helmstätter Herrenhaus in Handschuhsheim. Photographed entirely without flash, often in black and white and mostly from a little distance.

Civil wedding at Heidelberg town hall

Svenja and Felix got married at Heidelberg town hall on a Tuesday morning in June 2025, in a civil ceremony. The town hall on the Marktplatz is a Baroque building dating from 1701 to 1703, and the register office is right inside it. If you get married there, you have the old town right on your doorstep – and we made the most of it.

The walks tell the story too

At the register office the ceremony itself doesn’t take long. So the day is often told by the walks in between: the stroll through the lanes, the stairs up through the town hall, the first moment afterwards outside the door. I simply walked along with them, sometimes ahead, sometimes behind, and photographed whatever happened on the way.

A lot of it is in black and white. The old town is full of signs, cars and colourful shop windows; without colour, what’s left is light, shadow and the two of them. The colour comes back when things get cheerful, at the paper heart and in the bubbles.

Celebrating at the Helmstätter Herrenhaus in Handschuhsheim

Next it was on to Handschuhsheim and the Helmstätter Herrenhaus, right next to the Tiefburg. Georg Adam von Helmstatt built it around 1700, and his family lived there until 1930. That’s where the celebration carried on, well into the afternoon.

Photographed quietly

I didn’t use the flash once that day. For the ceremony I had a fast 85mm lens wide open on the camera, otherwise mostly the telephoto, so I could shoot from a little distance. That way the moments stay as they are, and nobody has to repeat anything for the camera.

The small gestures often say more than a posed couple shot: a hand on a back, two hands holding each other during the ceremony. That’s exactly how I see myself as a wedding photographer: I’m there with you, and the pictures tell the story of the day.

Wedding photographer in Heidelberg: packages, how it works and questions

Location
Heidelberg
Year
2025
Genre
Wedding
The bride and groom stepping through a paper heart, surrounded by bubbles

Photographer in Heidelberg

I photograph weddings, couples, families, babies, medical practices, property and theatre, in Heidelberg and the Rhine-Neckar region. Warm, close and observational rather than posed: with me, people can simply be themselves. Most of the time I work with the light that’s there and with a telephoto lens from a bit of a distance, so people soon forget the camera. And the little things at the edges have their place too.

As a wedding photographer, I follow you through the day reportage-style, from getting ready through the ceremony to the celebration. So far that’s taken me to Heidelberg Town Hall after a stroll through the old town, to the Chapel in Südstadt, to Schloss Neuhaus near Sinsheim and to a barbecue hut in the Taunus, for my best friend’s wedding.

I like photographing families best outdoors in Heidelberg, or at your home if that suits better, while you play rather than sit still. And couples on a walk through the old town, along the Neckar or in the woods. Babies I visit at home, from newborn to first birthday.

For medical practices, I take photos for their website that show what it actually looks like there, as I did for the Born & Winter paediatric cardiology practice in Heidelberg. With property, I’m all about bright rooms and straight lines, for example in a detached house in Pfaffengrund. And for the Wildfang theatre company in Eppelheim, I photographed scenes and group shots two days before opening night, using only the stage lighting.

Then there are my personal series, shot with the small camera in film-like colours, sometimes in black and white too: a trip up the Neckar with the Weiße Flotte and a few August days by the North Sea in Cadzand.

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