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.
★★★★★ Rated 4.8 from 580+ reviews
Wedding photography from £750
Bespoke packages · fast response · free consultation
The short answer
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.
The Owner is very friendly and professional. I have been using Mr Bathia for over 15 years and have seen him through multiple family weddings.
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 is brilliant photographer and provides a great service, would highly recommend"
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.
Check your date
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.
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.
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.
- 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. 1
- 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. 2
- 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. 3
- Bicester's councils. Bicester has three tiers of local government: Bicester Town Council, Cherwell District Council and Oxfordshire County Council. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Bicester 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 Bicester, frequently asked questions
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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