Sikh Wedding Photographer in New Malden
Photography for Sikh wedding celebrations in New Malden, through the Anand Karaj and every laav before the Guru Granth Sahib, and the reassurance of twenty-five years behind the camera.
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Your Sikh wedding photographer in New Malden, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia, whose work has earned five European Kodak Gold Awards, photographs Sikh weddings for couples in New Malden, Kingston and beyond from his studio in Northwood. The day is followed, not directed, so what you receive shows the anand karaj and the celebrations as they really unfolded. We cover the doli farewell with the same attention as the four laavan. The jago, mehndi, sehra bandi and baraat get the same treatment, as does the reception, whether that is in the upstairs function room at The Royal Oak on Coombe Road, which seats 100, or a larger hall elsewhere. Twenty-five years behind the camera have taught us how to work in halls, hotels and banqueting suites of every size. Fine art albums, parent copies, engagement shoots and second photographer cover are offered, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Direct trains from London Waterloo make New Malden reachable for a sangat coming from across the capital, which matters when the anand karaj is held at a gurdwara elsewhere in south London. Before the Guru Granth Sahib the four laavan are sung, ardas is offered and heads stay covered with shoes left outside, all photographed from a distance. Choora and kalire happen at home beforehand. The Royal Oak suits a smaller reception, and Beverley Park takes the portraits. The High Street and Burlington Road mark the Koreatown at the centre.
The Owner is very friendly and professional. I have been using Mr Bathia for over 15 years and have seen him through multiple family weddings.
We have used Kaushik Photography a number of times and I would not hesitate in recommending him. He is very patient and offers an exemplary service. Thank you Kaushik.
Would 100% recommend Kaushik Bathia Photography! Kaushik and his team photographed all my wedding functions and I couldn't be happier with the results. He listened to us, got to know our family and close one's and captured all the special moments. We had a great mixture of romantic portraits and natural candid photos of the ceremony. Thank you so much for the most beautiful, treasured wedding photos!
Serving New Malden
Two halves of a New Malden Sikh wedding day
Marrying at a gurdwara places your ceremony inside a building whose customs long predate the booking. There is no complaint in that. It does mean half your day sits outside anybody's control, yours included, while the other half belongs to you completely. Couples grasping early that these are two separate jobs, run by two separate sets of people, plan considerably better and ask sharper questions than couples who do not.
Relatives staying nearby end up scattered across Old Malden, Coombe and Motspur Park, which turns a morning into several front doors instead of one. Choora, the getting ready, the first cars pulling away. Coverage of all that has to be requested at booking. Sixty minutes of the morning either survives into the album or vanishes from it entirely, and that gets decided over email, months before anybody is sitting in a car.
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Every Sikh ritual
What happens in the darbar hall, and after
Almost nothing within a darbar hall falls to us to decide. Whether a camera may be present, how near it comes, what noise it is permitted to make: those belong to the sevadars, and the asking happens well before the sangat gathers. Restriction of that kind yields better pictures than freedom does. One vantage, one long lens, no movement. Even the laavan gets recorded from back there, with no instruction issued to a single person present.
Afterwards the constraints invert. Furniture moves, light gets added, two families can be asked to stand together and they will. Milni belongs to the morning and to whatever weather that morning supplies, shadows included. Langar happens at floor height, so a camera drops to floor height. Last of all comes the doli, generally the least lit thing on the schedule. That seam, between the half we obey and the half we shape, deserves the planning.
Why choose us
Why we stay at the back during the anand karaj
No anand karaj is a photo opportunity, and we decline to treat one as though it were. Back of the room, silence, only the pictures a space genuinely permits. Once it closes we work considerably harder and far more visibly, since that is the stretch in which a photographer becomes any use to you at all.
Kingston-side settings for a New Malden Sikh wedding
Places in and around New Malden and Kingston worth knowing while planning a Sikh wedding day, starting with the Old Court House register office. Every note is drawn from a published source, linked so you can check capacities, such as the 70 seats in the Oak Room, before booking. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Korean community. New Malden is often called Korea Town or Little Korea; around 10,000 ethnic Koreans lived in New Malden proper as of 2014, and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is described as having the largest South Korean expatriate community in Europe. 1
- Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. New Malden (postcode district KT3) lies mostly in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, with part in the London Borough of Merton. 2
- The Royal Oak at 90 Coombe Road, New Malden (KT3 4RD), a few minutes from New Malden station, hosts wedding receptions in an upstairs function room for 100 seated or 170 standing, with a large pub garden. 3
- Kingston Register Office holds ceremonies in The Old Court House on the ground floor of the historic Guildhall in Kingston, with three ceremony rooms to choose from. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your Sikh wedding photography in New Malden includes
What's included
- Wedding photography from £750, priced for the events you choose
- The milni, the Anand Karaj and the four laavan, and the reception, as you plan them
- A pre-wedding planning meeting to agree the timings and the family groups that matter most
- A second photographer available for the largest celebrations
- An edited private online gallery to share and download
- Hand-finished albums and wall art as an option
How booking works
- Check your date. Call or WhatsApp 07956 505383, or use the enquiry form on this page.
- Free consultation. In the studio, by phone or over video, with sample albums to look through.
- Written quote. The events, the hours and any album, with travel from Northwood set out in writing before you book.
- Confirm the booking. A simple booking agreement holds your date in the diary.
- After the day. Your edited gallery arrives online, followed by any album you have chosen.
Good to know
Wedding photography in New Malden, frequently asked questions
Yes, provided it sits in the booking. Jago nights run late, travel between houses, and are lit by whatever burns on the pot plus a streetlamp. Different kit, different approach from daylight hours. Name the night in your first message.
Usually no. A day staying on one site is comfortable enough for one photographer. Two households in New Malden preparing simultaneously, both of which you want recorded, is the situation that changes the answer. Describe your day and you will get told plainly.
A private gallery link carries the images. Full-size downloads, no expiry, shareable however suits your family. Album orders and prints arrive separately once the design has been signed off. Nothing at all gets held back.
Yes, and warn us it is coming. Milni finishes quickly, sits outdoors, and pairs off relatives from two families that have not previously met. Names in advance plus a rough order stop the garlanding ending before anybody has been identified.
Frequently not. Just ask. Diaries open unexpectedly, and late booking mostly costs planning time rather than coverage itself. Send your New Malden date across and an answer follows inside a day, either way.
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