Wedding Photographer in Bath
Relaxed, documentary wedding photography in Bath, for grand country houses, village halls and everything between, with fine-art albums you will want to hand round for years.
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Wedding photography from £750
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in Bath, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia is an award-winning wedding photographer with more than 25 years behind the camera, and he travels to Bath and throughout Somerset. We travel from Northwood, with travel and any overnight stay quoted in writing before you book, and on the day you lead while we follow, catching the details you planned and the surprises you did not. In Bath that could be a ceremony in the Alkmaar Room at the Guildhall, vows beside the Great Bath before the Roman Baths open, a ceremony at the Bandstand in Parade Gardens, or a country day at Orchardleigh Estate near Frome. When a plan changes at short notice we keep the mood light and work around it, and at the Guildhall the marble staircase, where couples can be photographed as guests leave, is a ready alternative if it rains. You can add an engagement shoot, a second photographer and hand-finished albums, and we are glad to travel anywhere in Somerset and beyond.
Honey-coloured stone warms every skin tone it reflects onto, which makes this Georgian city unusually forgiving in bright midday sun, and the Royal Crescent, John Wood the Younger's 500-foot sweep of 30 terraced houses, is the frame that says Bath more than any other. Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, famed for its Roman baths, so crowds are a genuine constraint and early morning or late evening is when the streets become workable. Royal Victoria Park, with the Royal Crescent as its backdrop, adds Botanical Gardens, a bandstand and duck ponds. Priston Mill, about 7 miles from Bath, and Orchardleigh Estate near Frome sit outside the city, and each offers grounds where a whole day can stay in one place. Bath Spa station on the Great Western Main Line, with services to London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads, brings guests in by train.
Superb and highly professional wedding photographer. We had the pleasure of working with Kaushik Bathia Photography for a recent wedding at Orchardleigh Estate.
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.
Kaushik was great, photos were returned quickly and we got all the shots we wanted. Excellent and professional.
Serving Bath
Choosing a licensed room in Bath
Licensing decides your ceremony room. Nobody picks it for the windows, and the list is not open to argument. You therefore inherit whatever that room holds: one aspect, one ceiling height, frequently the least daylight anywhere in the building, and a legal core occupying a small fraction of a very long day. Plan outward from that. Ten minutes in there a week ahead beats every conversation about style.
Bath then hands you an unusual second half. A sweeping terrace like the Royal Crescent is curved, so a line of guests strung along it will not sit in one plane of focus; you either bend the group to follow the stone or retreat much further than instinct suggests. Both work. Neither happens by accident, which is why a group list gets walked through the day before instead of debated on gravel with everybody waiting.
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Every kind of wedding
Two guests at the Guildhall to a full barn at Priston Mill
Two people and a registrar is a different craft from three hundred guests, not a reduced edition of one. At a tiny wedding nothing hides you and no crowd absorbs the attention, so it all rests on two faces and on sensing the moment to stop shooting. A room the size of an office still wants planning, only less of it. An elopement needs fewer frames, and what comes back is often stronger for that.
Scale changes the arithmetic rather than the intent. Three hundred guests means a receiving line eats the drinks reception, the group list needs a name written against every grouping, and speeches happen in a room too long to light from one side. Registrars vary in what they will allow during the vows, so ask yours directly and pass the answer on; we would far rather work to a real rule than guess at a polite one.
Why choose us
What gives first when a Bath wedding runs late
Weddings run late. That is normal, not a crisis, so the useful skill is knowing what to cut. Portraits shrink first, group photographs shrink second, and the first dance never moves. We tell you which one is going instead of quietly taking it out of your day.
Bath at a glance for your wedding day
Some places in and around Bath to know about while planning a wedding day. Each note summarises a published source, linked so you can check the details. We travel from Northwood; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book.
- Great Western Main Line. Bath Spa opened in 1840 on the Great Western Main Line, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Great Western Railway runs services from it to London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads. 1
- World Heritage city. Bath became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 and was later listed as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe; its Roman baths and temple date from around 60 AD, when the settlement was known as Aquae Sulis. 2
- The Roman Baths and Pump Room is hired out for weddings outside museum hours, with vows exchanged beside the Great Bath before opening or after closing and receptions in the Pump Room or on the Terrace above. 3
- Bath Register Office, Guildhall. Bath and North East Somerset Council's Bath Register Office is in the Guildhall, a Grade I listed Georgian and Victorian building in the city centre, a short walk from Parade Gardens and the Roman Baths. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Bath 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 Bath, frequently asked questions
Late, in the hour running up to sunset, if your schedule can carry it, because the sun by then is low enough to arrive sideways instead of from above. Otherwise, ten minutes lifted the moment a ceremony ends, while you are both still lit up.
Always, and it does not involve a flash bolted to the camera pointing forwards. We carry lights on stands, and a grey afternoon can be made to look deliberate. Rain is easier than most couples fear; it empties the streets and softens everything.
Yes, before any money moves. It states the hours, the coverage, what happens if either side has to cancel, and how the pictures reach you. Read it properly and ask about anything that reads oddly; we would rather answer in writing than in argument.
Mostly candid. The group photographs and a brief portrait set get posed, because those are what families actually print. Across most of a Bath day we stay back and stay quiet, then take charge for twenty minutes and hand the day back.
Yes, designed rather than dropped into a template. You see a layout, you change what needs changing, and printing happens once you are happy. An album can be ordered months after the wedding, which is fine by us.
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