Asian Wedding Photographer in Solihull
Fine-art Asian wedding albums, made in Solihull, from the family milni to the confetti of the exit, with respect for your traditions and an eye for natural beauty.
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Wedding photography from £750
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Serving Solihull
Holding one look across a Solihull wedding week
Three days is never one job repeated. Colour, ceiling height and the hour of day change with every building, so an unmanaged set finishes looking like three weddings shot by three different people. The treatment therefore gets settled before anything begins and then held without drift: a single warmth, a single contrast, one habitual distance from faces. Grounds make that easier; venues around Solihull include Nuthurst Grange, Castle Bromwich Hall Hotel and The Limes Country Lodge Hotel.
The frames that bind those days together are hardly ever the ceremonies. The corridors carry them. Somebody asleep in a car, a grandmother eating before anyone else has sat down, a brother being taught at the last minute how to tie something. We ask for time to be left for that, because a schedule that only allows for the scheduled parts produces an album with no connective tissue.
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What we offer
Asian wedding coverage in Solihull
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Every tradition
Your running order, written down
We do not assume your order from your tradition. Two families of the same faith run their days differently, and those differences are precisely what a guessing photographer gets wrong. Questions therefore get asked, and your answers get written down, including the bits you assume everybody already knows. Where authority sits in a room varies too, and knowing that in advance keeps us out of its way. It also decides which of you we watch when two things overlap.
Ask for a running order in writing and we will build one with you, hour by hour, then send it to whoever is coordinating. It is not an instrument of enforcement. It exists so that when the day slides, and it will, everybody can see what is able to move and what is fixed. Fixed parts tend to be short, tend to fall early, and losing one is what gets remembered.
Why choose us
Preparation that keeps us out of sight
The measure we use is how little you hear from us. Preparation carries the load instead: positions worked out beforehand, equipment chosen so nothing needs assembling in a doorway, questions asked weeks earlier. All that remains on the day is arriving at the right spot early and saying nothing at all.
Kaushik Bathia photographs every Solihull commission himself, drawing on a studio established in 2001, five European Kodak Gold Awards and fellowships of the BIPP and the MPA.
Wedding-day places in and around Solihull
Wedding plans usually start with where the ceremony and reception will be. The places below, in and around Solihull, are described from published pages, with a link to each source. We travel from Northwood; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book.
- The Limes Country Lodge Hotel on Forshaw Heath Lane, Earlswood (B94 5JZ), set in six acres of countryside a few minutes from the M42, hosts weddings and events. 1
- Solihull Register Office on Homer Road (B91 3QZ), a short walk from the town centre, has a Ceremony Suite for the couple and up to 58 guests, a smaller Jubilee Room, and a garden at the front used for photographs. 2
- St Alphege Church. St Alphege, the red sandstone parish church at the head of the High Street, is Grade I listed and has a 168-foot spire, and the town's name is thought to come from its position on a 'soily' hill. 3
- Brueton Park Local Nature Reserve. Brueton Park (B91 3HA) is a 30-hectare local nature reserve of grassland, woodland and marsh, designated in 2002. 4
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Asian weddings in Solihull, FAQs
Yes. It is simpler for everybody when the three sit on one booking instead of being added a day at a time. One run also gives you one archive, one edit and one look across the whole set, not three that nearly match.
Yes, both. The walima is generally the larger of the two, so tell us which should carry the greater share of the hours; the shape of the booking follows that rather than splitting evenly.
Yes. A pre-wedding session pays off practically as well as sentimentally. You find out what your own face does under a working lens, and we work out how close either of you will tolerate, before any of it counts.
Yes, and the ceremony is where we are least visible of all. Long lens, no lamp, no crossing anybody's sightline, no requests until it has finished. Should a family want us further back than that, ask.
By deciding in advance which things cannot be repeated, then being in position for those and letting the repeatable ones go. Attempting to see everything on a compressed day produces a thin record of all of it.
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Before the day, many couples book a pre-wedding or engagement shoot near Solihull, which also helps everyone relax in front of the camera.
We hired Kaushik for our wedding. He was a fantastic photographer, very professional and great to work. Flexible with timings, patient, and produced amazing photos.
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