Muslim Wedding Photographer in Barking and Dagenham

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Your Muslim wedding photographer in Barking and Dagenham, at a glance

London based and award winning, Kaushik Bathia has photographed Muslim weddings for over twenty five years, and he is glad to travel out to Barking and Dagenham and the surrounding parts of Greater London for yours. Where families keep the men's and women's gatherings separate, we agree the boundaries with you in advance and photograph only where you have invited us, so the arrangement is respected throughout the day. Traditions vary between Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Arab, Somali and Turkish families, so the running order is agreed beforehand and the nikah, the rukhsati and the walima in Barking and Dagenham are covered the way your family keeps them. The connection between the mehndi, the nikah and the walima is something we photograph as one continuous story, because we have seen how the days belong together. Add a pre-wedding shoot, a second photographer for the baraat and walima, or a fine art album, and know that travel across Greater London and the rest of the country is arranged without fuss.

Becontree, one of the largest council-built estates in the world, gives this borough a density of family homes that shapes how a nikah day begins, with relatives walking in rather than driving. The imam leads the khutbah, ijab and qabool are given, the mahr agreed and the nikah-nama signed before two witnesses, with cameras down during recitation. Oasis Banqueting or the Crown Banqueting Suite then holds the walima. The fifteenth century Curfew Tower beside St Margaret's Church is the borough's oldest backdrop.