Wedding Photographer in Aldershot
Real, relaxed wedding coverage for couples across Aldershot, from the first cup of tea to the final dance, backed by twenty-five years of experience across the UK.
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Wedding photography from £750
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Your wedding photographer in Aldershot, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia is an award-winning wedding photographer based in London, with over twenty-five years behind the camera, and would travel to Aldershot or anywhere in Hampshire for your wedding. Small details count as much as the set pieces, so between the ceremony and the meal we photograph the handwritten notes, the borrowed jewellery and the quiet glances, wherever in Hampshire the day is held. Around Aldershot that could mean vows in the Lantern Hall, a chapel or the gardens of Farnham Castle in neighbouring Farnham, a country house day at Northbrook Park, or a reception for up to 300 in the Grand Ballroom at Froyle Park, and we would plan the coverage to suit. For portraits we would suggest the Wellington Statue on Round Hill, near the Royal Garrison Church, or the Heroes' Shrine garden in Manor Park, Aldershot's main park near the town centre. An engagement shoot among the spring bluebells at Rowhill Nature Reserve on the Aldershot-Farnham border, a second photographer and fine art albums can all be added, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Ceremonial dress may well appear in Aldershot, a Hampshire garrison town known as the Home of the British Army and home to a large Nepalese community, and uniform demands exposure discipline so that medals and dark cloth both hold their detail. The Wellington Statue on Round Hill gives an elevated and unmistakably local setting for a couple's portrait, best worked late in the day when the equestrian bronze is side lit rather than flat. Manor Park sits close to the town centre with a large pond and the Heroes' Shrine garden, which keeps the portrait run short when a schedule tightens. Northbrook Park and Froyle Park both offer grounds that suit a large outdoor group. Trains run towards London Waterloo, Alton and Ascot, and North Camp, Church Crookham and Farnham are near enough for split preparations.
…Kaushik's work is fantastic and he took so much stress out of our special day. He and his team are highly professional, fun and friendly and work with you to capture the shots that you want. He captured some amazing moments of both us and our guests, some natural, some posed but all truly wonderful. We were blown away by our albums and videos and have no hesitation in recommending him to our family and friends.
I had hired Mr Kaushik as our photographer for my son and daughters wedding fir all the ceremonies conducted and found him to be friendly professional with all the guests The quality of his photographs are excellent and are of high quality I was also very impressed when he had completed the albums He also give extra hours if needed and does not complain I would recommend to anyone
I came in the shop very late to closing time and kaushik welcomed me in and met all of my photography needs.Much recommended ..Professional service will be returning :)
Serving Aldershot
Planning a wedding in Aldershot
A licence, not a view, is what put your ceremony in that particular Aldershot room, and asking will not change that. What can still change is the hour and the seating. Find out which wall holds the glass and what time the registrar is booked for, then work out between you whether the pair of you end up facing that light or standing with your backs to it.
Inside the room the script is fixed, and the two of you spend most of it facing a registrar rather than your guests. The expressions worth having therefore belong to the front row and not to the front table. Registrars also vary between themselves on how far forward a photographer may work, which is worth putting to the individual on duty a few minutes beforehand rather than assuming last week's answer still holds.
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Every kind of wedding
Traditional, modern, or somewhere between
A church hands you the widest range of brightness you will meet all day: small high windows, dark timber, and a working position somewhere near the back. Expose for the glass and faces go black; expose for faces and the glass burns away. A hotel function room is the opposite complaint, lit flat and yellow for meetings, holding nothing that makes a shape. An estate spread over acres eats a schedule in walking, and every minute spent crossing between two rooms comes off the portraits.
Write the group list out, then cut it in half. Every combination on it burns minutes in gathering rather than in photographing, and the quickest way through is one confident relative per side who can call names across a room. A receiving line photographs itself provided we stand at the end of it. Speeches take their light from whatever sits behind the top table, which is often a window, so establish what that is before a seating plan gets printed.
Why choose us
Since 2001, learning what to leave out
Working since 2001 has mostly taught us what to leave out. Fewer instructions, fewer lights, fewer requests to do a thing again for the benefit of a camera. What remains is a way of moving through a wedding that most guests never register, and pictures resembling the day instead of a session.
Aldershot at a glance for your wedding day
Some places in and around Aldershot to know about while planning a wedding day. Each note summarises a published source, linked so you can check the details. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Municipal Gardens, a Victorian-style garden five minutes' walk from the town centre, opened in 1904 and has an Edwardian gate on Grosvenor Road, a wisteria pergola, a fountain and an avenue of mature lime trees. 1
- Froyle Park is an exclusive-use country house wedding venue on the Surrey border, about an hour from London, with 32 hotel-style rooms sleeping 66 and a Grand Ballroom for up to 300 guests. 2
- Rowhill Nature Reserve covers 55 acres of mainly deciduous woodland on the Aldershot-Farnham border, is the source of the River Blackwater and is known for its spring bluebells. 3
- The Wellington Statue by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, Britain's largest equestrian statue when unveiled at Hyde Park Corner in 1846, was re-erected on Round Hill near the Royal Garrison Church in 1885 and restored from 2004. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Aldershot includes
What's included
- Wedding photography from £750, priced for the events you choose
- Coverage of the ceremony, the family groups, your couple portraits and the reception
- 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 Aldershot, frequently asked questions
Twice, and briefly: once on the way in, once for the group photographs. After that you are left alone. Being directed is what makes people self conscious, and the frames couples keep are rarely the ones where somebody was told where to put their arms.
Gladly, and it is best built backwards. Sunset fixes the only hour of an Aldershot day that nobody can move, so portraits get placed against that first and everything else slots around them.
Failure is treated as a certainty rather than a risk, so nothing important exists as a single item: bodies, lenses, batteries, cards. The failure that would hurt happens at home afterwards, which is why files live in three separate places until an album is signed off.
Insist on seeing a whole wedding, start to finish, not a highlights reel. Anybody can assemble thirty strong frames out of ten years. What tells you something is how an ordinary afternoon in a plain Aldershot room looks in their hands.
Yes. A print ordered here rather than off a shop counter carries the colour that was approved in your gallery, and that match is the reason for correcting anything at all. Sizes, framing and paper get settled once the pictures have sat with you a while.
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