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Sikh Wedding Photographer in Gerrards Cross

Warm, unobtrusive Sikh wedding photography in Gerrards Cross, through the Anand Karaj and every laav before the Guru Granth Sahib, with heirloom albums designed around your Anand Karaj.

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Your Sikh wedding photographer in Gerrards Cross, at a glance

Recognised with five European Gold awards, Kaushik Bathia is an award winning Sikh wedding photographer based in London who welcomes enquiries from couples marrying in Gerrards Cross and elsewhere in Buckinghamshire. Cameras come down during prayer; there are moments in a gurdwara that belong to the sangat alone, and knowing which ones is part of the job. Multi-day Sikh weddings are a speciality in Gerrards Cross, from the pre-wedding maiyan and mehndi to the baraat, the four laavan at the gurdwara, the doli and the reception afterwards. Redundancy comes from having been in this long enough to have seen equipment fail. Dual card recording, spare bodies and duplicated backups are habits formed by experience rather than marketing. Engagement shoots, a second photographer for the busiest events and beautiful fine art albums are all part of what we offer, and we travel throughout Buckinghamshire and the rest of the UK for your wedding.

South Buckinghamshire is quieter ground for an anand karaj than west London, and the drive out from a gurdwara can eat the schedule, so the sehra bandi and milni are worth photographing before anyone leaves. Inside, the ragis lead the kirtan and the couple take the four laavan; the frame is made from a seated position at the side. The Bull Hotel takes the evening well. Gerrards Cross Common's woodland gives the couple ten unhurried minutes, and the doli then leaves without a crowd around the car.

Serving Gerrards Cross

For Sikh couples marrying in Gerrards Cross

Nobody rearranges a congregation hall for a camera's convenience, and nobody should. That building was raised for something more serious, so it hands you one seated vantage, no flash, and whatever light the windows are supplying. Which argues for fast glass and an ISO you have already tested at home, and against any plan depending on moving about while the ceremony runs.

Evening is a different trade altogether. A function room can be lit, and those decisions want making weeks ahead, while there is still room to alter them, rather than at seven when staff are turning the space around. Between the halves sits an hour of changed clothes and scattered relatives, and it is the hour couples forget to allocate. Ask your evening venue when that room becomes available to you. In town the evening list runs Colston Hall, Crowne Plaza Gerrards Cross and The Bull Hotel.

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What we offer

What is included in your Gerrards Cross Sikh wedding coverage

The Four Laavan

Hand-finished Albums

Fast Online Gallery

Every Sikh ritual

Before the Guru Granth Sahib in Gerrards Cross

Follow the palla. A length of cloth joins one hand to another, it sits low, and the frames that mean anything get composed level with the hands rather than the faces. Each laavan closes where it began; what alters is the row of people watching. Change lens between passes and you come away with four pictures instead of one repeated. Every restriction a photographer works under in that hall descends from the respect owed the Guru Granth Sahib.

Langar puts a roomful of people in motion, and the photographs there concern service rather than food: hands, trays, the queue, somebody's grandmother refusing to sit down. Jago the evening before is louder and darker than anything the following day produces, and it wants a wider lens used closer in. Milni is an outdoor event at the mercy of Buckinghamshire weather, and the doli nobody has rehearsed. Both are worked from wherever the crowd has not gathered yet, which in practice means standing there before it does.

Wedding traditions photographed in Gerrards Cross

Why choose us

What sets our Gerrards Cross coverage apart

Two rooms, two entirely separate sets of rules, one day. We plan the handover between them with you instead of improvising it, settle in advance who signals that the ceremony is starting, and carry duplicate bodies so an equipment failure in the darbar hall costs a lens change and nothing more.

Good to know

Wedding photography in Gerrards Cross, frequently asked questions

What is actually included in your Sikh wedding packages?+

The hours you book are covered, an edit follows containing every frame worth keeping, and files arrive large enough to print big. Albums, a second shooter and extra hours sit on top and are priced separately.

Do you stay from the morning right through to the end of the night?+

Usually, and there is sense in buying it that way, since the morning explains the evening. Where a budget forces a choice, keep the morning: dancing photographs well at any hour, and getting ready never happens twice.

How do you photograph the baraat?+

In front of it, walking backwards. Drums set the pace, the crowd tightens, and the faces worth having are those at the front looking forward. We keep low so the procession fills the frame rather than the car park.

Our Gerrards Cross wedding is only a few months away; is it too late to book you?+

Rarely. At short notice the only real question is the date itself. Send it across; if we can take it you hear so within a day, and a compressed timeline alters nothing about the coverage.

How do you make sure our photographs are never lost?+

Two cards record simultaneously while we shoot. That night both empty onto a pair of drives, and a further copy travels off site before any editing begins, so no wedding ever exists in only one location.