Wedding Photographer in Banbury
Storytelling wedding photography for every kind of day in Banbury, whether the day is a quiet register office booking or a large family affair, with honest coverage and albums built to be kept.
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Wedding photography from £750
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in Banbury, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia, an award-winning photographer with more than 25 years behind the camera, travels from Northwood to Banbury, Oxfordshire's largest town, and across the Cherwell district. For the first dance we bounce a small light off a ceiling or wall instead of aiming it at you, since the DJ's lights alone rarely flatter anyone, wherever the evening is held. Around Banbury that could mean a civil ceremony in the council's ceremony room at Banbury Town Hall, a Victorian Grade II listed building holding up to 80 guests, a wedding in the Cotswold stone Great Barn at Aynho, built in 1770, or a day at The Wroxton Hotel, whose Broughton Room and Wroxton Room are both licensed; church, marquee and multicultural days are covered too. No award makes a room easier to work in, so on arrival we still read where the light falls and where the registrar will stand. You can add an engagement shoot, a second photographer and hand finished albums.
Banbury Cross stands at the top of the High Street, where Horsefair, South Bar and West Bar meet, and it is worth photographing early while the streets are quieter rather than fighting Saturday traffic for it. Banbury is a market town on the River Cherwell, known for Banbury cakes, and Spiceball Country Park beside the Cherwell and the Oxford Canal puts water, towpath and greenery close to the centre. The Great Barn at Aynho, a Cotswold stone barn built in 1770, needs careful colour work indoors if skin is to stay natural, Tinkers Barn Estate at Chacombe is a country venue with a courtyard and a stretch marquee, and Whately Hall Hotel at Banbury Cross offers a more conventional set of rooms. Banbury station has Chiltern Railways trains to London Marylebone and Oxford, with step-free access to every platform, which suits guests arriving by rail.
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.
Excellent photography services before and during our wedding. Really enjoyed him being our photographer and he did a great job with the pictures. Working with him on the albums post wedding has been fantastic, he takes time to understand our ideas and portrays them in his work. Brilliant personality and very professional.
Fantastic photographer with great attention to detail. Very professional and easy to work with, and the final photos were outstanding. The whole process was smooth and enjoyable. I wouldn’t hesitate to book again or recommend to others.
Serving Banbury
Ceremony rooms and registrars around Banbury
The licence, not the light, picks your ceremony room for you. That much is settled before you ever walk into it, and whatever the room offers is what we work with: a function suite, a panelled parlour in a country house, or one small window sited at the wrong end. Nothing in our bags alters that, so the plan absorbs it and the flexibility gets spent elsewhere in the day.
Registrars are not identical, and one telephone call settles which sort you have drawn. A few are happy for a camera to keep working throughout. Others want it still and at the back. Some ask for stillness while the legal words are said. Get that answer written down before your timings are agreed, because it governs our position through the one stretch of the day that cannot be staged twice.
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Every kind of wedding
From Banbury Town Hall to a barn at Aynho
A stone church is a tall, cool, low-light room with a narrow aisle, and how much a photographer may move about in it is settled by whoever takes the service. Ask them, then tell us. Country house grounds are sold by the acre and paid for in walking time, so portraits down by the water spend twenty minutes of your reception getting there and back. A hotel trades the other way: everything sits within a corridor of everything else, and the ballroom is lit for conferences.
Group lists are what couples underplan. Eight groups is fifteen minutes when somebody who knows the family is calling the names; sixteen groups eats the drinks reception and the queue starts noticing. Write the list early, keep it short, appoint a caller. A receiving line achieves most of that with fewer instructions. Speeches want a seat chosen for the listeners rather than the speaker, and a first dance wants light we have brought ourselves.
Why choose us
What you can expect from us at a Banbury wedding
Trust comes mostly from saying what we will do and then doing it. You get a plan you can read weeks beforehand, two people who have already settled between them who covers what, and an edit that is not left queueing behind a season of other weddings. We are quiet inside the room and quick outside it.
Around Banbury: venues, open spaces and landmarks
A photographer's plan for a Banbury wedding would take account of the ceremony venue, the reception and any space for portraits between them. These notes, taken from published sources, describe a few local options. We travel from Northwood; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book.
- The 'spiceballs' name. Spiceball Park takes its name from butcher and 1894 mayor Thomas Hankinson, who gave land for recreation and was known for his hand-made meatballs called 'spiceballs'. 1
- Whately Hall was built by Charles Stokes in the mid-17th century as the Three Tuns Inn, whose licence is on record from 1677. 2
- Tooley's Boatyard on the South Oxford Canal in Banbury has worked continuously since 1778 and has an 86-foot covered dry dock and a 200-year-old forge. 3
- The Great Barn at Upper Aynho Grounds (OX17 3AY) is a Cotswold stone barn built in 1770 as part of the Cartwright Estate, set in a 250-acre farming estate and licensed for civil ceremonies on an exclusive-use basis. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Banbury 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 Banbury, frequently asked questions
That feeling is normal, and it usually fades once the day gets going. Early on we stay well back, work with longer glass than most, and give you nobody to perform for. By the time we come closer, the lens has usually stopped registering.
Something always fails eventually, so nothing is allowed to matter. A camera dies, the spare comes off the shoulder, and the only person who notices is us. There is no moment in your day that depends on one battery, one card or one particular lens working.
Yes. A deposit holds the date, then the balance splits into instalments across the months beforehand, on dates you pick when booking. Nobody gets asked for a lump sum in the last fortnight, and every one of those dates is written into your contract.
We do, working from your favourites rather than ours. You mark the frames that have to be in it, we build a first sequence around those, and then you move anything you want moved. It is not finished until you say so.
At around 50 miles, Banbury is a day we travel to from Northwood; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book, and guests coming by rail can take Chiltern Railways trains from London Marylebone to Banbury station on Station Road.
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