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Wedding Photographer in Bicester

An unhurried wedding photographer for couples in Bicester, covering the register office, churches, barns and country estates, with honest coverage and albums built to be kept.

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Your wedding photographer in Bicester, at a glance

Kaushik Bathia has photographed weddings for over twenty five years and travels to Oxfordshire, where couples in Bicester can book him for calm, natural coverage backed by more than a thousand weddings and five European Kodak Gold Awards. We work quietly through the day, whether the ceremony is at The Garth or in a barn such as Tythe at Launton, so your photographs feel real rather than staged. Ceremonies around Bicester range from the register office room at The Garth in Garth Park, which seats 48 including the two witnesses, to exclusive-use barns such as Stratton Court Barn at Stratton Audley, and we plan coverage for each. The five European Kodak Gold Awards matter less than our rating of 4.8 from 580+ Google reviews, which is where you can check what working with us is like. Engagement shoots, a second photographer for busier days and beautiful fine art albums are all part of what we offer, and we travel throughout Oxfordshire and the rest of the UK for your wedding.

Barns dominate the venue list around Bicester, with Manor Farm Barn, Stratton Court Barn and The Tythe Barn all offering timber and stone interiors that are beautiful but dark, so the work has to be done at the edge of the available light, shaping it rather than flooding the room. The town is best known for Bicester Village, its designer outlet, and is served by two stations, Bicester Village and Bicester North, while junction 9 of the M40 lies to the south, which makes it one of the easier Oxfordshire towns for guests to reach. The Church of St Edburg, built around 1120 and the only Grade I listed building in Bicester, provides the traditional ceremony setting. Garth Park, the town park on Launton Road, has gardens the county council offers for photographs after a ceremony at The Garth.

Serving Bicester

Licensed rooms and light around Bicester

A ceremony room gets chosen for its licence, never for its light, and no amount of polite asking alters that. The licence attaches to the room itself. If the finest window in the building happens to be next door, that is where your drinks will be poured, not where you will be married. Finding this out late is annoying, which is fair, but it is settled before you arrive.

Around Bicester the ceremony is often held inside a barn or an old parish church, which are the same problem in different materials: glazing bunched along one side, or set high and spaced far apart, with nothing near enough to bounce off. We work with that fall-off instead of fighting it, then, where the day allows, take you outside to find open sky.

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What we offer

What is included in your Bicester wedding coverage

Documentary Style

Fine Art Albums

A Second Photographer

Every kind of wedding

The Garth, St Edburg's or a barn

Registrars vary, and which one you have drawn is not knowable until the meeting immediately before the ceremony. Some are content for us to work throughout. Some want the camera kept at the back. A few will run the signing twice, once properly and once for photographs. A plan that survives all three is a plan that never leans on any single angle.

The legally binding portion is short. Everything wrapped around it is a slow social event, and the family groups are the only part running against a clock. Cut that list harder than feels comfortable, and appoint one carrying voice per side who already recognises everybody. A relative who can shout beats any system we could bring. The rest of the afternoon can drift twenty minutes without cost; the groups cannot, because once people scatter into a garden you are hunting them singly and losing the light while you do it.

Bride in teal and groom in blue in a formal knot garden

Why choose us

Built around your Bicester wedding

Reputation in this trade comes by referral and by very little else, which is why we would sooner decline a date than accept a day we cannot cover properly. Every couple who books us starts as a stranger deciding whether to trust a website. We photograph with that in mind.

Couple beneath a stone arch overlooking the Houses of Parliament

Planning a wedding around Bicester: useful places

If you are marrying in or near Bicester, these notes cover a few local venues, open spaces and landmarks. They are drawn from published sources; confirm times, capacities and bookings with each place directly. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.

Stratton Court Barn Stratton Court Barn at Stratton Audley (OX27 9AJ), just north of Bicester, is an exclusive-use barn venue with licensed indoor and outdoor ceremony spaces, woodland, a Tuscan-style courtyard and a formal rose garden. Source: Barn wedding venue in Oxfordshire (Bicester) | Stratton Court Barn
Bicester garden town The government designated Bicester a garden town in 2014, with planned growth expected to take its population, 37,020 at the 2021 census, to around 50,000. Source: Bicester - Wikipedia
Bicester Village station Bicester Village station is served by Chiltern Railways trains between London Marylebone and Oxford, and took its current name when it reopened on 25 October 2015 after being known as Bicester Town. Source: Bicester Village railway station - Wikipedia
RAF Bicester RAF Bicester began in the First World War as a Royal Flying Corps airfield and the site is now Bicester Airfield, home of the Windrushers Gliding Club. Source: Bicester - Wikipedia

Good to know

Wedding photography in Bicester, frequently asked questions

How does the deposit and booking work?+

A date is held once a signed agreement and the booking payment have both arrived. Until then it stays genuinely open, and if somebody else enquires about your date we will tell you at the time rather than let you discover it later.

How many hours of coverage will we need for a Bicester wedding?+

Count backwards from whatever you want the closing frame to be. If the first dance matters, that fixes your end point. If it does not, you can stop after the speeches and save yourself hours. A finish somewhere between the two suits many days.

What is included in a typical Bicester wedding photography package?+

Coverage across the hours agreed, an edited online gallery, and full-size files to print as you like. An album, or a second photographer, sits outside that and gets quoted separately, since some couples want neither and some want both.

How far in advance should we book a photographer in Bicester?+

Summer Saturdays go first and they go early, frequently more than a year ahead. Everything else is far calmer. If your date lands on a Friday, or outside the season altogether, you have more room than the internet will admit.

Will you visit the venue before the day?+

Where the diary allows, yes, and a late afternoon visit teaches more than a midday one, because afternoon light is the light you will actually marry in. Where a visit is not possible we ask instead for photographs and a floor plan.