Wedding Photographer in Barking and Dagenham

Storytelling wedding photography for every kind of day in Barking and Dagenham, whatever your tradition, faith or venue, and a warm, patient approach from first call to final gallery.

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Your wedding photographer in Barking and Dagenham, at a glance

For couples marrying in Barking and Dagenham, Kaushik Bathia offers award winning wedding photography, with more than twenty five years of experience and over a thousand weddings behind the camera. Our editing is understated and true to life, favouring natural tones over heavy effects so your album still feels right many years from now. From intimate register office ceremonies to grand country house weddings, and from village churches to garden and marquee celebrations, we photograph every kind of wedding in and around Barking and Dagenham. A second photographer is available whenever your day calls for it, giving broader coverage and a second perspective on the moments you cannot be in two places for. 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.

Three large banqueting suites operate across this borough, Oasis Banqueting, Green Lane Banqueting and the Crown Banqueting Suite, and rooms of that size are lit rather than found, so equipment and the option of a second photographer are worth settling early for a big guest list. The borough sits by the river Roding and contains the Becontree estate, one of the largest council-built estates in the world, which means much of the day happens in ordinary streets where a documentary eye counts for more than scenery. Central Park in Dagenham, opened in 1932 on former Eastbrook Farm land, is the dependable green space for group and couple portraits. The 15th century Curfew Tower and the Barking Abbey ruins beside St Margaret's Church supply the one piece of genuine antiquity. The A13 runs through towards central London, with Ilford, Rainham and Chadwell Heath adjoining.

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Barking and Dagenham wedding photography, done properly

A ceremony room is picked because the law recognises it, not because a photographer would have chosen it. That is not a fight worth having, so the licence decides and we adapt. Some of these rooms have no window anywhere. Others run a wall of glass along one side and throw hard light over half the seats. Either way it was settled long before we were involved.

Which makes everything around the ceremony the part you can steer. Fifteenth century stone survives at the Curfew Tower, and the Abbey ruins next to St Margaret's Church stand open to the sky, so they photograph best once the sun is off them and offer no cover at all in rain. Central Park in Dagenham is the borough's green fallback. All of it is public ground, so sixty people need a slot, a route and someone willing to lead them.

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What we offer

What is included in your Barking and Dagenham wedding coverage

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Engagement Shoots

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Second Photographer

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The First Dance

Every kind of wedding

Ceremonies of every shape in Barking and Dagenham

Registrars are not interchangeable. Some will happily stand aside; others tell you at the rehearsal that no camera may work during the declarations themselves, and by then your plan should already allow for it. Ask yours directly what is permitted during the vows and where you may stand for the signing, which is in any case usually staged a second time afterwards. A church puts you in a longer, darker room with a fixed aisle and a very different set of manners.

Legally a wedding is over quickly. Arrivals, drinks, a receiving line, speeches, the meal and the first dance fill everything around it, and most of your pictures come out of those. Groups are the one part capable of wrecking an afternoon, so hold the list to combinations you will genuinely frame, name someone loud who knows the family, and get them done in a single place instead of assembling everyone twice.

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Why choose us

Reputation built one Barking and Dagenham wedding at a time

We photograph what happens rather than staging a version of it, and the only directing we do is for the portraits and the groups. Colour is handled consistently right across the day so the set reads as one thing, skin stays the colour it was, and nothing is dragged through a filter that will look dated to you within five years.

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Wedding photography in Barking and Dagenham, frequently asked questions

It depends on hours booked, whether somebody is working alongside us, and what you want made afterwards. Send the date and a rough outline of the day and you get a written quote for your wedding rather than a guess.

No. Stills are what we do, and filming properly needs a crew, kit and attention of its own. We work alongside video teams constantly and would rather do that than split our attention across both.

Yes, and the day runs better when we have spoken beforehand. Give us the venue coordinator, the florist and whoever controls the music, and timings get agreed between us instead of on the floor in front of you.

Natural. Colour is corrected towards what your eyes actually saw in the room, skin tones stay true, and no heavy preset goes anywhere near the files. The aim is a set that will not announce which decade it came from.

Two bodies are working at any moment and every frame is written twice, onto two cards in the same body, so a failure costs seconds instead of a wedding. Copies go onto separate drives that night and are never stored together.

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