Wedding Photographer in Barnet
Documentary wedding photography with a steady, friendly eye in Barnet, through the walk down the aisle and everything that unfolds after it, backed by twenty-five years of experience across the UK.
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Wedding photography from £750
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in Barnet, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia has more than 25 years of photography behind him and offers wedding photography from £750 for couples marrying in Barnet. From a morning ceremony at Hendon Town Hall to the evening reception, you set the pace and we photograph around it without interrupting. In Barnet that might be a civil ceremony at Barnet Register Office in Hendon Town Hall on The Burroughs, a church service, a country house wedding with marquee space for up to 200 at West Lodge Park Hotel, or a multicultural celebration in Colindale. Five European Kodak Gold Awards, a rating of 4.8 from 580+ Google reviews and a studio open since 2001 give you something concrete to check before you book. A second photographer, an engagement shoot on Monken Hadley Common or in Oak Hill Park, and a hand-finished album are all available, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
High Barnet station on the Northern line makes the borough straightforward for London guests to reach, so it is worth planning for a full turnout and a larger formal group. Chipping Barnet, the borough's old market town, was the site of the decisive Battle of Barnet in 1471, and the Hadley Highstone at Monken Hadley, which marks the battlefield, offers a quiet and characterful spot away from a busy venue. Oak Hill Park in East Barnet is the better choice when the whole party moves together. West Lodge Park, just over the border in Hadley Wood, offers grounds and daylight, Hendon Town Hall civic formality, and Cavendish Banqueting Hall in Colindale a large interior needing controlled lighting. Finchley, Whetstone and Mill Hill all lie within the borough, so morning preparations there need not add much travel to the day.
Thank you for capturing our special day so well and creating beautiful photos that we will treasure forever. We love our stunning wedding album! You took the time to get to know us from the pre-shoot right up until the wedding day and made us feel comfortable and relaxed, and we had a lot of fun along the way especially with your silly little jokes to get us to laugh!
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 have known Kaushik for almost 20 years & in the recent years has been doing various photo projects, where he has been responsive & professional. Highly recommended him.
Serving Barnet
Getting married in Barnet?
Licensing, not photography, decides which room you legally marry in. What you get may be small and panelled, a corner carved out of a hotel, or a civic chamber under strip lighting, and negotiating that is not on offer, which is survivable. The legal core takes a sliver of your day, and everything wrapped around it remains yours to arrange however you like. Spend the effort there instead.
Registrars vary more than couples anticipate. Some permit a camera to move through the vows, while others will want it stationary at the rear, and the morning itself is often when you find out which sort you drew. We prepare for the stricter version and treat the other as a bonus. Ask your venue who books your registrar, and whether a conversation beforehand is possible. The answer changes nothing about your day and a great deal about our position in the room.
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Every kind of wedding
Planning a Barnet wedding with more than one ceremony
Some wedding days carry more than one ceremony, or a ceremony plus a blessing, or two receptions with a night between them. Two ceremonies means two of everything: two arrivals, two rooms to learn, two lots of nerves. Each has a start it will not move, and whatever sits in between decides whether the schedule holds. Our plan gets built backwards from the last fixed point, not forwards from the first. Reverse that and the group photographs begin eating your meal.
Group lists are the other quiet disaster. Set down in advance they read like a list and finish quickly; invented on a lawn they take an hour while somebody's grandmother stands. Keep the list short. Appoint a relative from each family who can identify people, and pick even light over the best view when choosing where to stand everybody. Speeches need nothing from you, and neither does the first dance, beyond our knowing when.
Why choose us
What we would bring to your Barnet wedding
We are a small operation, and nobody you have not met will turn up in our place. Your photographer will have read the schedule, will know which parts of it cannot move, and will stay outside your eyeline for the bulk of it. That, entire, is the pitch.
Before you book in Barnet: places worth knowing
The notes below describe a handful of places in and around Barnet, from venues to parks and landmarks. Each is summarised from a published source linked beside it; details such as capacity and opening times can change. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Barnet Register Office, Hendon Town Hall. Barnet's register office moved to Hendon Town Hall on The Burroughs, Hendon, in February 2017, and civil ceremonies are held there. 1
- Hendon Town Hall, designed by Thomas Henry Watson and opened on 13 November 1901, is a Grade II listed building where full meetings of Barnet Council are still held. 2
- Monken Hadley Common is about 72 hectares of oak, hornbeam and beech woodland between Monken Hadley and Cockfosters, a remnant of the royal forest of Enfield Chase, with Jack's Lake formed by damming Pymme's Brook. 3
- Beale Arboretum, West Lodge Park. The grounds of West Lodge Park include the landscaped Beale Arboretum, which the hotel offers for strolls and guided tours. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Barnet 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 Barnet, frequently asked questions
Style, every time, because style is the thing you cannot change afterwards. Look at complete weddings rather than portfolios; anyone can assemble twelve good frames. What you want to know is what an ordinary hour looks like in their hands.
Natural. Colour is corrected so that a room's lighting stops distorting skin, and there it stops. Fashions in editing date faster than dresses do, and a photograph you will still like in thirty years cannot afford to be fashionable.
On the day itself, no. What they mean is that the work has been judged by people who do this for a living and not only by clients. Treat it as a floor under the quality, not as a reason to book.
A signed contract and a deposit hold it; nothing before those does. Until both land your Barnet date remains available to anyone else asking for it, and a second enquiry on that date brings a warning from us first.
Hundreds rather than dozens, from a full Barnet day, with the exact count following the hours booked. Every delivered frame is one we would defend. Blinks, duplicates and the third go at one moment never reach you.
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Guides
Wedding guides for Barnet couples
Portfolio
From our wedding portfolio
Wedding venues near Barnet
The guides below set out what each venue publishes on capacity, catering, ceremony rules and parking; just over the border in Hadley Wood, West Lodge Park Hotel lists civil ceremonies for up to 80 guests and receptions for up to 130.
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Popular sessions
Before the day, many couples book a pre-wedding or engagement shoot near Barnet, which also helps everyone relax in front of the camera.
Church · Civil · Country House · Marquee · Multicultural
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