Wedding Photographer in Barking
25+ years behind the camera, brought to Barking for the walk down the aisle and everything that unfolds after it, with documentary or classic coverage, whichever suits you.
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Wedding photography from £750
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in Barking, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia, an award-winning wedding photographer working from Northwood since 2001, travels across London to Barking for the whole wedding day. For relaxed groups we would suggest the cobbled courtyard at Eastbury Manor House, if your wedding is there, or the open ground of Barking Park, letting people gather naturally rather than stand in rows. A register office ceremony at the Venue at Woodlands in Dagenham, a Tudor setting at Eastbury Manor House, the partly moated Valence House or a large banqueting reception: whatever form your Barking wedding takes, and whatever your faith or culture, we photograph it as it happens. After more than 25 years of weddings, we plan the day with you beforehand, stay to the end and deliver the gallery when we said we would. An engagement shoot by the abbey ruins on Abbey Green, a second photographer and fine art albums are all available; travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Ruins photograph best when the sun sits low enough to rake across broken stone, and Barking has the remains of Barking Abbey with the surviving Curfew Tower beside St Margaret's Church at its heart. Abbey Green, the open space around those ruins, and nearby Barking Park give two outdoor options within the town, both close enough that a portrait run need not cost the couple their whole drinks reception. If your wedding runs from early preparations through to a late reception, the coverage can be paced to last the whole day. Eastbury Manor House brings Tudor interiors to work with. Barking station is served by the District and Hammersmith & City lines, the London Overground Suffragette line and c2c trains.
I hired Kaushik for our wedding and I’m extremely glad I did!! Kaushik took amazing pictures and the quality of the pictures were amazing. Kaushik was very patient and was very helpful since the start. My family including our guest were constantly asking me who the photographer was as he gave the best service.
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!
Kaushik Bathia does amazing pictures and can transform simple pictures into marvellous memories. I highly recommend him as a professional photographor for your personal and family events.
Serving Barking
How a Barking ceremony room shapes the day
A licence picks your ceremony room in Barking. Light has no say in the matter, and everything else has to bend around that. Often enough it is the least generous space on the floor, with glass down one side or none at all, and swapping it on the morning is an option open to nobody, you included. So we get in there ahead of your guests, find the one position holding both faces and the registrar at once, and take it.
The legally binding part is brief. Twenty minutes, sometimes less, buried inside eight or nine hours of everything else. That imbalance is why most of the planning conversation goes on things nobody counts as photography: where groups happen if it rains, who holds the list, what time the light goes, and how long a room takes to clear once the last guest has sat down to eat.
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Every kind of wedding
Registrars, readings and group shots in Barking
No two registrars run a room the same way. Movement during vows is fine by one and forbidden by the next, while a third will not have the signing acted out again once it is done. Websites never say which you have drawn, so the question gets asked on arrival and the plan assumes the least generous answer available. Where it turns out relaxed, you finish with rather more than was promised to you.
Group shots are the reliable disaster of a long day. Ten groups is comfortable and twenty is not, because each costs minutes of hunting for people, and hunting is the expensive bit rather than photographing. Anything past ten eats the drinks reception, which is time you thought you had. We want one person named per side, somebody who recognises everybody by sight and is not shy about shouting across a lawn. That single appointment buys back more time than any other choice available to you.
Why choose us
Honest opinions on your Barking day
We take positions instead of handing you every option. That covers where speeches get lit from, whether the receiving line earns its frames and when to break for pictures outside. Overrule any of that and we will not sulk, though you will never get a shrug in reply to asking what we honestly think.
A local guide for couples marrying in Barking
Here are some places in and around Barking that a wedding day could involve, from ceremony rooms to open spaces for portraits. Details come from the linked sources and can change, so check them before you book. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Barking Abbey was founded around 666 AD by Saint Erkenwald for his sister Saint Ethelburga and closed in 1539; its ruins lie in Abbey Green, a public open space in Barking. 1
- 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. 2
- Valence House Museum. Valence House on Becontree Avenue, Dagenham (RM8 3HT), the only surviving manor house in Dagenham and still partly moated, is offered by the council for hire for weddings and ceremonies. 3
- Curfew Tower and St Margaret's Church. The Grade II* listed Curfew Tower, built in 1370 and rebuilt around 1460, and the Grade I listed 13th-century St Margaret's Church are the surviving buildings of Barking Abbey. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Barking 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 Barking, frequently asked questions
Yes. We travel to buildings right across Barking, and elsewhere in east London too. Somewhere new to us earns an early arrival, so rooms can be walked and the ceremony position settled before anyone else turns up.
Yes, and a designed album beats a box of files by some distance. It gets built as a running order, then sent over for your changes before anything reaches a printer. You can cut a spread or two, or add one you feel is missing.
A signed agreement plus a deposit holds it. Until both of those land, anybody else who asks can still take the date, which is not awkwardness on our part, only that one Saturday cannot honestly be promised twice.
A short preview set within days, the whole gallery in weeks. Better that you wait for a properly graded set than take everything raw on the Monday. If a thank-you card needs something sooner, say so and one gets pulled early.
Yes, and we would rather they came from us than from a shop counter, since a print pulled off a file nobody graded for paper will disappoint you. Size, framing and finish get decided together, after the images have had a few months to settle.
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