Daan Bachmann

Wedding — 2025

Wedding at the Grillhütte Waldems-Esch: Verena & Thomas

Verena is my best friend, and I was the photographer at her wedding to Thomas. The party was at the Grillhütte in Waldems-Esch in the Taunus, in an old quarry among the trees: beer benches, meadow flowers and lots of laughter, photographed without flash and mostly from a distance.

Wedding celebration at the Grillhütte in Waldems-Esch

Verena and Thomas celebrated in the Taunus at the end of May 2025, at the Grillhütte in Esch, which is part of Waldems in the Rheingau-Taunus district. The barbecue site lies a little outside the village in an old quarry where slate used to be mined. Since the 1970s it has grown bit by bit, with a hut, benches and tables on stone plinths and a covered barbecue area, and today the supporters’ association of the Esch volunteer fire brigade looks after it.

So instead of a banqueting hall and chair covers, there were beer benches under the trees, the rock face behind, bunting made from strips of fabric and meadow flowers in bottles. It hardly gets more relaxed than that.

When your best friend gets married

At this wedding I wasn’t just behind the camera, I was one of the guests too. That’s a gift for the pictures, because nobody has to put on an act in front of the camera, and people laugh just the way they always do.

Even so, I held back and shot almost everything with the telephoto, from a distance. That way the moments stay unobserved – which is exactly what I love about wedding reportage.

Summer light filtering through the trees

I didn’t use flash, not even in the evening. Under the trees, sun and shade keep changing, and that’s exactly what gives the pictures their warm, soft light.

With the telephoto wide open I lift people out of the hustle and bustle: the background turns into colour and light, and what’s left is the moment, a laugh, a look. And in between, the details that show how much love went into this celebration.

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

Location
Waldems-Esch
Year
2025
Genre
Wedding
Bubble favours for the guests labelled ‘Verena & Thomas’ on a beer bench

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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