Austrian Weddings

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Twelve places worth marrying in.

Planning guides for the places couples ask about most: what the light does, when the season turns, how long the approach really takes, and when the day-visitors arrive.

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Rows of empty wooden chairs set for an outdoor ceremony facing grey mountain peaks

Location guides

Not venue listings. Each one covers the hour a place is worth photographing, the month it looks best, what the approach actually involves, and when it fills up.

Couple dance with joined hands raised beside an old stone building, in black and white

Salzburg

Baroque stone, a river, and mountains at the end of every street.

Couple in Austrian Tracht sit together in a window nook silhouetted against a lake

Hallstatt

The most photographed village in Austria, and still worth it at sunrise.

Groom in a waistcoat and bride embrace by a lake, her head resting on his shoulder

Wolfgangsee

Deep green water, a lake steamer, and a cog railway up the Schafberg.

Bride looks back over her shoulder beside the groom on a lake dock at dusk

Mondsee

The Sound of Music church, and a warm lake twenty minutes from Salzburg.

Bride walks away across a meadow in black and white, holding a bouquet and the groom's hand

Zell am See

Pinzgau, Salzburg

A lake, a mountain, and a glacier you can reach before lunch.

Couple in Tracht walk hand in hand through a flowering pasture below grey mountain peaks

Kitzbühel

Medieval colour in the valley, alpine pasture ten minutes above it.

Couple in Austrian Tracht stand on a wooden deck before green foliage, she holds a bouquet

Vienna

Imperial scale, and a city that stays open after the ceremony ends.

Bride and groom walk hand in hand along a dirt track with green fields behind

Innsbruck

A city with a two-thousand-metre ridge twenty minutes above it.

Couple kiss on a gravel hillside path lined by a wooden fence at sunset

Bad Gastein

A belle époque spa town built around a waterfall in the middle of it.

Bride and groom kiss under willow branches beside a lake, bride holding a bouquet

Achensee

Turquoise water under limestone walls, and a steam railway to reach it.

Bride in a dirndl and groom in Tracht hold hands facing each other, grey peaks blurred behind

Seefeld

A high plateau where the mountains stand back and the light stays open.

Groom embraces the bride under a wooden heart arch hung with white ribbons

Dolomites

South Tyrol, Italy

Two hours past the border, and the most dramatic rock in the Alps.

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