Hindu Wedding Photographer in Hammersmith and Fulham

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Your Hindu wedding photographer in Hammersmith and Fulham, at a glance

Kaushik Bathia brings twenty-five years behind the camera and five European Kodak Gold Awards to Hindu weddings in Hammersmith and Fulham, and photographs each day himself. We photograph what happens rather than staging it: the look between the two families at the milni, the tears at the vidaai and the laughter once the reception gets going. In Hammersmith and Fulham, as anywhere, the day sets its own order and we keep to it: the baraat arrives, the bride's mother gives the ponkhana welcome, garlands are exchanged and the seven vows are taken at the mandap. Awards aside, what counts on the day is that we have gone through your order of rituals beforehand, so we are already in place when the kanyadaan begins. When the mehndi and sangeet fall on the same evening in different homes, a second photographer keeps both covered, and a pre-wedding shoot among the rose and moat gardens of Bishops Park can be added along with an album. Travel from Northwood to a Hammersmith and Fulham venue, or anywhere else in the UK, is set out in your written quote before you book.

The Queen's Club hires out its function rooms and grounds for weddings. Either way the day begins with haldi and pithi at home, then the baraat and the milni, then jaimala and the pheras around the agni. Four Underground lines meet at Hammersmith, so guests arrive steadily rather than all at once. Bishop's Park, with its tree-lined walks beside the river, gives portraits after the sindoor and before the vidaai.