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Some Cambridge colleges hold weddings only for their own fellows, students, alumni and staff. Confirm you qualify before you plan around one.
Wedding Photographer for Cambridge and Cambridgeshire
From a ceremony in the Brooke Room on Ascham Road to portraits along the Backs, Kaushik Bathia photographs Cambridgeshire weddings from his studio in Northwood, about 47 miles from Cambridge.
The short answer
Are you a wedding photographer who covers Cambridge?
Yes. Kaushik Bathia photographs weddings in Cambridge and across Cambridgeshire, including Huntingdon and Peterborough. Cambridge is about 47 miles from his Northwood studio, Huntingdon about 51 and Peterborough about 68, so most weddings are day trips. Prices start from £750, with every package built to order. Travel is set out in your written quote before you book, along with an overnight stay if a very early start calls for one.
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The county's shape
Cambridge in the south, Huntingdon in the middle, Peterborough in the north
Cambridgeshire runs a long way north to south, and the three places with their own wedding pages sit almost in a line. Cambridge, in the south, is about 47 miles from our Northwood studio. Huntingdon, in the middle of the county on the River Great Ouse, is about 51 miles. Peterborough, the cathedral city on the River Nene in the north, is about 68 miles away and has its own unitary council.
For a wedding photographer coming from Northwood, that means Cambridge and Huntingdon are comfortable day trips. Peterborough is further, and for an early start there an overnight stay is usually sensible at this distance and is set out in your written quote. We look at your timings and say plainly what we would suggest, and travel from Northwood is quoted up front and set out in writing before you book.
It also means the county offers very different backdrops depending on where you marry: college courts and river meadows in Cambridge, Georgian riverside streets and country parks around Huntingdon, and a Norman cathedral and big country parks around Peterborough.
Register offices
Ascham Road, Huntingdon Town Hall and Thorpe Road
Cambridgeshire County Council's Register Office is now on Ascham Road in Cambridge, where ceremonies are held in the Brooke Room. If you are marrying in Cambridge with a small guest list, this is where the legal ceremony is likely to happen, and the city's open spaces are close by for portraits afterwards.
In Huntingdon, the registration service uses the Assembly Rooms at Huntingdon Town Hall on Market Hill as its ceremony room, while registration appointments, such as giving notice, take place at Huntingdon Library. Market Hill puts you in the centre of the old town, a few minutes from the medieval bridge over the Great Ouse.
Peterborough runs its own service. Peterborough Register Office at 33 Thorpe Road holds marriages, civil partnerships, vow renewals and naming ceremonies in ground-floor ceremony rooms. Step-free rooms make life easier for older relatives, and the register office is not far from the cathedral precincts for photographs.
Venue types
Colleges, country houses and riverside hotels
Cambridge is unusual because so many potential venues are university buildings. Some colleges hold civil ceremonies in panelled rooms overlooking their lawns, with wedding breakfasts in medieval dining halls. Others offer chapel weddings and garden ceremonies but only to their own fellows, students, alumni and staff, so check your eligibility before falling for a college. Beyond the colleges, the list runs to country houses on the edge of the city and hotels in the centre.
Around Huntingdon, the approved venue list mixes riverside and town-centre hotels, a historic house, a golf club and the Town Hall itself. Near Peterborough you will find manor hotels in parkland, sole-use country halls with room for a marquee, and village inns.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough keep separate approved venue lists, so check that your choice holds a current licence with the right council. Then send us the venue and the timings when you enquire, and we will plan the day around its rooms and grounds.
Portraits in Cambridge
The Backs, Parker's Piece and the Botanic Garden
The Backs is the stretch east of Queen's Road where St John's, Trinity, Trinity Hall, Clare, King's and Queens' back on to the River Cam, with college grounds on both banks. For portraits it is the image most people picture when they think of a Cambridge wedding. College grounds have their own access rules, so we plan portraits from public paths unless your venue gives permission.
Parker's Piece in the centre is one of the city's best-known open spaces. Students published an early set of football rules there in 1848, and its 1893 gas lamp is nicknamed Reality Checkpoint. It is flat and open, good for a big group photograph, and close to the hotels on Regent Street.
The Cambridge University Botanic Garden covers 40 acres between Trumpington Road and Hills Road and holds over 8,000 plant species. It was founded by John Stevens Henslow, Charles Darwin's mentor, in 1831 and opened to the public in 1846. Jesus Green, by the river north of Jesus College, adds a lido from the 1920s, one of the few that survive.
Huntingdon and Peterborough
Portraits along the Great Ouse and the Nene
Huntingdon's Riverside Park runs for 2 km along the River Great Ouse, from the bridge to Hartford Church, with a hay meadow and riverside walks. The stone bridge between Huntingdon and Godmanchester dates from around 1332. Hinchingbrooke Country Park on Brampton Road adds 150 acres of grassland, woodland and lakes, with a Green Flag Award held since 2018.
In Peterborough, the cathedral's Early English Gothic West Front of three enormous arches is a backdrop few cities can match, and the 17th-century Guildhall or Butter Cross stands in Cathedral Square. Central Park, north of the centre, is a Green Flag park first opened at Easter 1877 with formal gardens.
Ferry Meadows, in Nene Park about three miles west of the city centre, has lakes, meadows and woodland and is one of the largest country parks in the region. The heritage Nene Valley Railway has two stations inside the park, which can add a steam train to the background if the timetable fits.
Seasons and guests
Timing a Cambridgeshire wedding
Cambridge is busy with visitors in summer and with students in term time, so central portraits can mean crowds. Early evening is calmer and the light along the river is softer. In the countryside around Huntingdon and Peterborough, summer gives long days in parkland, while autumn colours the woodland at Hinchingbrooke and Ferry Meadows.
Guests from London have good trains. Cambridge has two stations, Cambridge and Cambridge North, which opened in 2017. Huntingdon is on the East Coast Main Line about 59 miles from King's Cross, and Peterborough is a major interchange on the same line, 76 miles from King's Cross.
Planning
Planning around Cambridgeshire
Notice in Huntingdon
Huntingdon's ceremonies are in the Town Hall's Assembly Rooms, but appointments such as giving notice are at Huntingdon Library.
Peterborough is separate
Peterborough has its own register office on Thorpe Road and its own approved venue list, apart from the rest of Cambridgeshire.
Beat the crowds on the Backs
Central Cambridge fills with visitors in summer. Plan riverside portraits for early evening, when the paths are quieter.
Stay for Peterborough?
Peterborough is about 68 miles away. For a dawn start there, a night nearby is usually sensible and is set out in your written quote.
Register offices and wedding venues in Cambridgeshire
The guide below lists Cambridgeshire's register offices, portrait locations and landmarks, each linked so you can read it in full.
- Cambridgeshire Register Office, Ascham Road: Cambridgeshire County Council's Register Office is now on Ascham Road, Cambridge, where ceremonies take place in the Brooke Room. 1
- Peterborough Register Office: Peterborough Register Office at 33 Thorpe Road, Peterborough PE3 6AB, is a ceremony venue for marriages, civil partnerships, vow renewals and naming ceremonies, with its ceremony rooms on the ground floor. 2
- The Backs: The Backs is the stretch east of Queen's Road where colleges including St John's, Trinity, Trinity Hall, Clare, King's and Queens' back on to the River Cam, with grounds on both banks. 3
- Ferry Meadows, Nene Park: Ferry Meadows, run by the Nene Park Trust charity in the heart of Nene Park about three miles west of the city centre, is one of the largest country parks in the region, with lakes, meadows and woodland and access off Oundle Road (A605). 4
- Parker's Piece: Parker's Piece in the city centre is one of Cambridge's best-known open spaces, where students published an early set of football rules in 1848, and its 1893 gas lamp is nicknamed 'Reality Checkpoint'. 5
- Central Park: Central Park, north of Peterborough city centre, is a Green Flag park first opened at Easter 1877, with formal gardens, an aviary, a croquet lawn and bowling greens. 6
- Hinchingbrooke Country Park: Hinchingbrooke Country Park on Brampton Road covers 150 acres of grassland, mature woodland and lakes, has held a Green Flag Award since 2018 and is popular with dog walkers. 7
Sources, facts checked October 2026
Town by town
Wedding photographer pages for Cambridgeshire towns
Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough each have their own wedding page, shown below with their distance from Northwood. Start with Cambridge, Huntingdon or Peterborough.
- Cambridge (47 miles from the studio)
- Huntingdon (51 miles from the studio)
- Peterborough (67 miles from the studio)
Good to know
Weddings in Cambridgeshire: questions answered
Cambridge is about 47 miles from the Northwood studio, Huntingdon about 51 and Peterborough about 68. Most Cambridgeshire weddings are day trips. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book, with any overnight stay listed alongside it.
Cambridgeshire County Council's Register Office is now on Ascham Road in Cambridge, and ceremonies take place in the Brooke Room. For a larger guest list, look at the county's approved venues, which include colleges, hotels and country houses.
Some colleges hold civil ceremonies and wedding breakfasts, and some restrict weddings to their own fellows, students, alumni and staff. Check eligibility with the college first, then send us the details so we can plan portraits within its rules.
Wedding photography starts from £750, and packages are bespoke. You can add a second photographer, a pre-wedding shoot or a hand-finished album. Mileage from Northwood is listed separately in your written quote and set out in writing before you book.
The Backs, where several colleges meet the River Cam, Parker's Piece in the centre, the Botanic Garden off Trumpington Road and Jesus Green by the river. College grounds have their own access rules, so public paths are the starting point.
Yes. Peterborough is about 68 miles from the studio. Its register office is at 33 Thorpe Road, and the cathedral's West Front, Central Park and Ferry Meadows in Nene Park all make strong portrait settings.
In the Assembly Rooms at Huntingdon Town Hall on Market Hill. Registration appointments are at Huntingdon Library. Riverside Park and the medieval bridge over the Great Ouse are a short walk away for photographs.
Cambridgeshire weddings
Is your Cambridgeshire date free?
Tell us the date, the venue or area and an idea of guest numbers. Kaushik will reply with availability and a written quote with travel from Northwood listed.
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