Wedding Photographer in Buckingham

An unhurried wedding photographer who works gently in Buckingham, from candid preparation shots to the roar of the reception, and albums you will hand down for years to come.

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Your wedding photographer in Buckingham, at a glance

An award winning, London based wedding photographer, Kaushik Bathia has spent more than twenty five years photographing weddings in Buckingham and right across Buckinghamshire. A relaxed portrait session is woven gently into the day, timed around the best light, so you get a short breather together and a few frames to keep forever. Church, civil, country house, barn, marquee or hotel, and every faith, culture and fusion celebration, we are equally at home photographing them all in Buckingham. 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. A second photographer, relaxed engagement shoots and hand finished fine art albums are all available, and we travel across Buckinghamshire and the wider UK so distance is never a problem.

No railway station serves Buckingham, so every guest arrives by road on the A421 or A422 from Milton Keynes, Bicester or Banbury, and that single fact should shape the ceremony time, since an afternoon start absorbs late arrivals far better than a morning one. The town is historic, sits on the River Great Ouse and was formerly the county town of Buckinghamshire, with Buckingham Old Gaol standing in the centre as a museum and a distinctive frame. Stowe Landscape Gardens, the National Trust gardens about three miles north west, are the finest setting in the area, and Stowe House itself hosts weddings, which removes the travel problem altogether. Swanbourne House is the smaller alternative. Winslow, Padbury and Maids Moreton are the nearest villages and often where preparations happen before the party moves into town.

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Getting married in Buckingham? Here is how we photograph it

An English wedding does its legal work in a room picked by a licence rather than by anyone's taste, which is why the short passage that actually marries you is often the least photogenic stretch of the day. Knowing that early changes how you allocate the afternoon. The licensed room is a fact to design around, not a disappointment, so we look at it first, work out what it cannot give us, and plan the surrounding hours accordingly.

Registrars keep their own timetable and they run the room while they are in it, so the interview beforehand, the position we may take up and the moment the register gets signed are all settled by somebody who is not you. None of this causes trouble if you ask in advance. It causes plenty if the first conversation about it happens with the room already seated.

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What we offer

What is included in your Buckingham wedding coverage

Full Day Coverage

Evening Party

Print & Wall Art

Every kind of wedding

The way you want to marry in Buckingham

A civil ceremony in a licensed room, a church service, and something very small with two witnesses are three different photographic jobs sharing one name. A church gives you height, stone and one strong window, which means high contrast, and long glass worked from behind the guests. A licensed room inside a house tends to be lower and wider, so faces light evenly and the difficulty moves to keeping the background quiet. Go and look at whatever sits behind the registrar's table; it will be in every frame of the ceremony.

Where a wedding day genuinely loses time is over the group photographs. The remedy is an agreed list settled a week beforehand, roughly a dozen combinations at most, and one relative from each side willing to fetch people by name. A receiving line achieves something comparable in half the time. After that the evening is yours, and we photograph it without asking anybody to repeat themselves.

Wedding traditions photographed in Buckingham

Why choose us

Experience Buckingham couples can lean on

Judgement is what you are actually paying for: knowing which moment is about to arrive and being where it will happen before it does. That comes from planning rather than luck. We turn up early, we walk the building, and a written running order stays in a pocket so that nobody ever has to come looking for us.

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Wedding photography in Buckingham, frequently asked questions

Do you offer engagement or pre-wedding shoots?+

Yes. Treat it as a rehearsal rather than a shoot: you find out that we do not bark instructions, and we learn what you both do with your hands when nobody is watching. The resulting pictures are yours to use however you want.

Do you offer drone photography or aerial shots?+

Not ourselves. Aerial work needs a licensed operator and permission for the site, so where couples want it we suggest bringing one in alongside us, and we coordinate the timing so that nothing clashes on the day.

We feel nervous about the camera. How do you help in Buckingham?+

By giving you less to think about. A plan goes out in advance, so there are no surprise requests in Buckingham, and the ceremony gets covered on long glass from well back. You will spend most of the day not knowing where we are.

We are not used to being photographed. Will you direct us?+

Yes, but lightly. Direction here means a place to put your feet and a reason to move, never a pose held for the lens. We fix hands and chins quietly and let the rest happen by itself. Nobody here gets told to look natural.

Can you help us plan the timeline for our Buckingham wedding?+

Gladly, and the earlier the better. Send us your ceremony time and the sunset time for that date; those two fix everything else in reverse. Expect an honest answer about where your Buckingham plan has left itself too little slack.