Muslim Wedding Photographer in Barking and Dagenham
Your lead camera for Muslim weddings in Barking and Dagenham, from the henna and mangni to the nikah at the mosque, with heirloom albums designed around your nikah and walima.
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Your Muslim wedding photographer in Barking and Dagenham, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA and a winner of five European Kodak Gold Awards, offers Muslim wedding photography from his Northwood studio and will travel the 24 miles to Barking and Dagenham for yours, with packages from £750. If the men's and women's gatherings are kept apart, the boundaries are settled with you beforehand and we photograph only where invited. Whether your family is Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Arab, Somali or Turkish, we agree the running order first, so the nikah, rukhsati and walima are photographed as your family keeps them. Green Lane Banqueting in Dagenham, a family-run hall seating up to 240, hosts Nikkah, Mehndi and Walima events, and whichever venue holds each day we would photograph the three as one connected story. A pre-wedding shoot, a second photographer for the baraat and walima, or a fine art album can be added, and travel from Northwood is shown on your written quote before you commit.
The borough includes Becontree, the largest public housing estate in the world when it was completed in 1935, so a nikah day here may well begin at a family home. 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. A banqueting hall such as Green Lane Banqueting can then hold the walima. For portraits, the Curfew Tower beside St Margaret's Church in Barking, built in 1370 and rebuilt around 1460, gives a historic backdrop.
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 photographed out wedding on september last year. He was so professional and was great with everyone making them laugh before taking all the snaps. We really couldn't have asked for more he worked hard all day to get the best pictures. We are very pleased with all the pictures and love the photo album. We will differently be using you again in the future Thank you!
We were delighted with Kaushik being our wedding photographer. He was organised and professional and kept everything stress free. He took some great photos and produced a memorable wedding album. Highly recommended.
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Planning the nikah, mehndi and walima together
Before anything is said about light, we need the shape of the room. Is it partitioned, and if so, where does the line fall? Which of your guests are willing to appear in a photograph? What is expected of a camera while the ceremony is underway? Those answers change the equipment we bring, so put them to whoever manages your Barking and Dagenham room while you are still deciding between rooms.
If any part of the gathering is not to be photographed, agree it when you book, not at the door. A nikah that starts at home may start in a room holding twice the number of people it was built for. Small rooms are workable, but they want a wide lens, a light bounced off a wall and far fewer bodies standing in the doorway.
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Every Muslim ritual
The ceremony, vow by vow
The contract itself is the quietest thing that will happen all day, and no one gets to repeat it. There is a table, there are pens, heads bend over paper and two witnesses lean in, and the picture worth having sits at that scale rather than a wide view of a hall. A shutter, in a room this quiet, is the noisiest object in it, so ours runs silent and we stop moving entirely. The imam decides what a camera does during a nikah, and we ask him, not you, on the day.
Everything after that runs on opposite settings. A walima fills a banqueting suite with a lit stage, several hundred guests and an entrance that takes minutes, which is a built event and can be treated as one. Mehndi is a colour and hands job in rooms that are usually too dim. Rukhsati is the moment the day turns, and it happens outdoors beside a car, in whatever light the street has.
Why choose us
Restraint and permission at every Muslim wedding
Trust here is mostly about restraint. We ask permission before we shoot a section of the room we were not invited into, we do not push a lens into a face that has turned away, and anything you would rather never appear in a gallery is deleted on request. Say it once and it is done.
Nikah, walima and portrait places in Barking and Dagenham
For a nikah and walima in the borough, the list runs from the register office at the Venue at Woodlands to a Dagenham banqueting hall and the gardens at Eastbury Manor House and Valence House, which would suit portraits between events. Every entry is drawn from the source linked beside it, and figures such as the 240 seats at Green Lane Banqueting can change, so confirm them with the venue before you plan the walima around them. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Beam Valley Country Park is 74 hectares of woodland, grassland and former gravel pits along the River Beam and Wantz Stream in Dagenham, most of it a Local Nature Reserve. 1
- The Chase Nature Reserve in Dagenham is a Local Nature Reserve on former gravel workings beside the River Rom, managed by the council's Parks and Countryside Ranger Service and home to six of Britain's roughly 600 female black poplars. 2
- Barking and Dagenham Council, which meets at Barking Town Hall, runs the borough created in 1965 as the London Borough of Barking. 3
- Barking station is served by the District line, is the eastern terminus of the Hammersmith & City line, and also has London Overground Suffragette line and c2c services, in fare zone 4. 4
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Wedding photography in Barking and Dagenham, frequently asked questions
Yes. Short bookings exist for exactly that. Tell us when the imam expects to begin and when signing is likely to finish, and we build the hours around it with a margin at each end for arrivals and greetings.
Yes, which spares you the job of relaying messages. Pass on contacts for the venue manager, the caterer and anyone lighting the stage, and we sort out timings and positions between ourselves before the week of the wedding.
We do. They are usually shorter, set in a house or over a restaurant table, lit by nothing more than what somebody switched on, so coverage runs closer and quieter than a wedding. It also lets us meet your families ahead of the bigger day.
Yes, and it goes better if we have spoken first. We split positions so that neither camera lands in the other's frame, agree who holds the front, and share any lighting rather than fighting for the same corner.
As many as you book. Decide by naming the first thing you want recorded and the last, then add a margin either side. Guests rarely arrive to schedule and a stage entrance rarely happens when the card says it will.
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