Wedding Photographer in Barking
Twenty-five years of wedding photography brought to Barking, through the walk down the aisle and everything that unfolds after it, offering documentary or classic coverage, whichever suits you.
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Wedding photography from £750
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Your wedding photographer in Barking, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia is an award winning wedding photographer based in London, photographing weddings in Barking and throughout Greater London for over twenty five years and more than a thousand celebrations. Rather than lining people up, we let groups form on their own and photograph them as they laugh and talk, keeping the whole thing loose and relaxed. Church, civil, country house, barn, marquee or hotel, and every faith, culture and fusion celebration, we are equally at home photographing them all in Barking. Our long track record gives couples confidence that we will turn up prepared, work through the whole day, and deliver the pictures we promised on time. Engagement shoots, a second photographer for busier days and beautiful fine art albums are all part of what we offer, and we travel throughout Greater London and the rest of the UK for your wedding.
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. This is an east London town with a large South Asian community, so a wedding here often runs from early preparations through to a late reception, and an award winning photographer of 25 years is used to pacing a day of that length. Eastbury Manor House brings Tudor interiors, while Oasis Banqueting Hall is a large room to be lit. District, Hammersmith and City, Overground and c2c services all reach Barking station from Upney, Beckton and Creekmouth.
Serving Barking
What a wedding day in Barking looks like through our lens
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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What we offer
What is included in your Barking wedding coverage
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Every kind of wedding
Room for every ritual, every reading, every custom
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
What sets our Barking work apart
We take positions instead of handing you every option. Where speeches get lit from, whether the receiving line earns its frames, 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.
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. Most couples cut a spread or two and add one nobody here expected.
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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