Asian Wedding Photographer in Newbury
Storytelling Asian wedding photography in Newbury, at home in temples, gurdwaras, mosques, mandaps and banqueting halls, with second photographers available for the largest celebrations.
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Wedding photography from £750
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Serving Newbury
Capturing Asian weddings in Newbury
Three days across three Newbury buildings raises a continuity problem well before any coverage problem. Every room hands over its own colour, and untouched, the Friday resembles one wedding, the Saturday a second and the Sunday a third, made by three unrelated people. The remedy lives in the edit and must be settled beforehand: a single treatment fixed at the outset and kept, instead of grading each day to flatter itself. Ask whichever photographer you are interviewing how they propose to answer it.
The second thing worth knowing is that the strongest frames seldom fall inside the scheduled hours. They come from the twenty minutes in a corridor while everybody waits, the back seat of a car, a grandmother sitting down because her shoes hurt. Those stretches get no running order and no announcement, so we simply stay through them, camera down but present.
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Thank you for capturing our special day so well and creating beautiful photos that we will treasure forever. We love our stunning wedding album! You took the time to get to know us from the pre-shoot right up until the wedding day and made us feel comfortable and relaxed, and we had a lot of fun along the way especially with your silly little jokes to get us to laugh!
We hired Kaushik for our wedding. He was a fantastic photographer, very professional and great to work with. Kaushik was very flexible with timings, he was patient, and produced amazing photos! We received our photos really quickly and the quality of them are really nice!! His communication throughout was really good and understood what I wanted. My family were also very happy with Kaushik and the photos.
Kaushik was exceptional at creating our wedding photo album! He designed it so beautifully and his customer service was the best. The album quality and design is amazing, we loved it! Wow what a great job. Highly recommend for photo albums.
What we offer
Asian wedding coverage in Newbury
Fine-Art Albums
Sikh Weddings
Every tradition
Mandap, fire ceremony or nikah: three plans for a Newbury wedding
There is no single Asian wedding, and the practical difference is who holds the clock. In one family a priest works through the mandap at a pace of his own, and will pause briefly when asked. In another, timing answers to whatever is being sung, and nothing pauses for anyone. A third family treats a contract as the binding portion, and that can be finished within twenty minutes. One word on the invitation, three entirely separate jobs, each needing its own plan.
So the first real question at a planning meeting is not which venue but who runs the ceremony, and how much movement that person will tolerate nearby. The answer settles our positions, what may be taken at close range, and how much daylight survives for portraits afterwards. Lenses and lighting follow from it, never the reverse. Nobody minds being asked. Officiants generally prefer a photographer who has asked to one who improvises around them.
Why choose us
Two rooms at once: a second photographer in Newbury
Over a wedding running several days, two rooms are usually busy simultaneously, and something has to be given up. We would sooner name the room we intend to lose, and give our reasons for choosing it, than leave you to discover the gap once an album arrives. Talk it through at booking, never on the morning.
Kaushik Bathia has photographed weddings since 2001 and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards, with FBIPP and FMPA fellowships.
Planning a wedding around Newbury: useful places
If you are marrying in or near Newbury, these notes cover a few local venues, open spaces and landmarks. They are drawn from published sources; confirm times, capacities and bookings with each place directly. We travel from Northwood; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book.
- Kennet and Avon Canal and racecourse. By 1810 the Kennet and Avon Canal linked Reading and Bristol through Newbury, the railway arrived by 1847, and the racecourse opened in 1905. 1
- Newbury station, opened on 21 December 1847 and 53 miles from London Paddington, is run by Great Western Railway on the Reading to Taunton line, with trains to Paddington, Reading and Bedwyn and two-hourly services to Exeter St Davids. 2
- Donnington & Co near Newbury is licensed for ceremonies in the Cromwell Suite, which holds up to 140 for a wedding breakfast, and The Greens, which holds up to 50 and has a private terrace over the parkland. 3
- West Berkshire Register Office is at Shaw House, a 16th-century Grade I listed building on the north side of Newbury with extensive lawned gardens, and West Berkshire has over 30 other licensed ceremony premises. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your Asian wedding photography in Newbury includes
What's included
- Wedding photography from £750, priced for the events you choose
- Every event you want covered, from the mehndi and sangeet to the ceremony and reception
- A pre-wedding planning meeting to agree the timings and the family groups that matter most
- A second photographer available for the largest celebrations
- An edited private online gallery to share and download
- Hand-finished albums and wall art as an option
How booking works
- Check your date. Call or WhatsApp 07956 505383, or use the enquiry form on this page.
- Free consultation. In the studio, by phone or over video, with sample albums to look through.
- Written quote. The events, the hours and any album, with travel from Northwood set out in writing before you book.
- Confirm the booking. A simple booking agreement holds your date in the diary.
- After the day. Your edited gallery arrives online, followed by any album you have chosen.
Good to know
Asian weddings in Newbury, FAQs
Colour is corrected across everything we hand over, and the set is then pulled to one look. Retouching beyond that stays deliberately restrained: a blemish, a reflection, an exit sign nobody noticed. Bodies are not reshaped, relatives are not removed.
Whichever ones your family keeps. A list would serve you less well than a habit, which is that you talk us through your household's own order of events, given that two families may sequence a shared custom quite differently.
Enough that we have taken a position while others are still turning round, and not so much that we assume. Regional practice differs; a family's own practice differs further. The sequence gets confirmed with whoever officiates, beforehand.
Yes. Newbury keeps a main line station serving Paddington and Reading, which is of more use to your guests than to us. We come by road, arrive before the hairdresser does, and start work on an empty room.
Those your day actually contains, with priority inside them set by you. Name the three moments your parents would grieve to lose; they get taken care of ahead of anything else, and everything remaining grows outward from those.
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Guides
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Portfolio
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Planning an Asian wedding beyond Newbury? See Asian wedding photography across Berkshire. For every other service, see photography across Berkshire.
Popular sessions
Before the day, many couples book a pre-wedding or engagement shoot near Newbury, which also helps everyone relax in front of the camera.
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