Wedding Photographer in Chalfont St Peter
A calm wedding photographer for Chalfont St Peter, for weddings large and small, formal or wonderfully laid-back, with fine-art albums and prints ready when you are.
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Wedding photography from £750
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Your wedding photographer in Chalfont St Peter, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, has more than 25 years behind the camera, works from his Northwood studio about 6 miles from Chalfont St Peter, and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards. St Peter's is a Grade II* listed church, rebuilt in 1726 after the medieval church collapsed in 1708, and inside we would work with the light the windows give, adding soft flash only for a dark reception room later. Nearby choices range from St Peter's parish church on Church Lane to the seven licensed historic buildings at Chiltern Open Air Museum in Chalfont St Giles, and we plan the coverage around whichever you choose. For a smaller civil ceremony, the Beaconsfield rooms, Midsomer Court for up to 60 and the Disraeli Room for up to 25, sit in a conservation area with a green across the road for photographs. An engagement shoot, a second photographer and hand-finished albums can be added, travel from Northwood to Chalfont St Peter is not charged, and wedding photography starts from £750.
This large Buckinghamshire village has the chalk stream Misbourne running through it, and St Peter's parish church stands on Church Lane. An 18th-century church interior can be dim, so the ceremony itself may be a low-light job and the line outside afterwards is where the bright, loose frames come from. Gold Hill Common, up the main street from the village centre, is a natural place to take a large group away from parked cars. The Bull Hotel in Gerrards Cross and Denham Grove both mean a short drive, so the portrait window is better placed before it. Gerrards Cross station, 1.2 miles south of the village on the Chiltern Main Line, suits anyone coming by train.
We were delighted with Kaushik being our wedding photographer. He was organised and professional and kept everything stress free. He took some great photos and produced a memorable wedding album. Highly recommended.
Superb and highly professional wedding photographer. We had the pleasure of working with Kaushik Bathia Photography for a recent wedding at Orchardleigh Estate.
Kaushik Bathia does amazing pictures and can transform simple pictures into marvellous memories. I highly recommend him as a professional photographor for your personal and family events.
Serving Chalfont St Peter
Getting married in Chalfont St Peter? Here is how we would plan the photographs
Paperwork picks the room. A civil ceremony must happen somewhere licensed for it, so the choice comes off a short list rather than a wish list, and you make it long before photographs enter anyone's mind. That is worth accepting instead of fighting. The room is a given, and everything we do gets arranged around what the room hands us on the day.
A wedding here could take one of two shapes. Either the ceremony happens at St Peter's on Church Lane and the party moves elsewhere, or one building takes both. The first buys you a street, a walk and a run of loose frames in between; the second buys you time and costs you variety. The Bull Hotel in Gerrards Cross and Denham Grove are both licensed for ceremonies and close by. Ask whichever room you pick which way the chairs will face at your hour, since a space that is lovely at eleven can be backlit by three.
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Every kind of wedding
Parish church, ceremony room or historic building
Only a short stretch of a civil ceremony carries legal weight, shorter than almost anyone expects. Perhaps ten minutes of it genuinely counts, and a registrar may ask that nothing is photographed during the declaration itself, so raise that question at the rehearsal rather than working it out while standing up. Everything on either side belongs to you: the walk in, the ring, the signing, the noise at the door afterwards. Weight your coverage accordingly and stop worrying about the ten minutes.
Formal groups are admin dressed as art. Eight of them takes about twenty-five minutes with a relative reading names from a list, and about fifty without one. Appoint that relative now. Gold Hill Common gives you open grass a short walk up from the village centre, which is useful when a group session and couple portraits have to run back to back.
Why choose us
A calm plan B for every part of the day
Weddings depart from the plan. That is normal, not alarming. Rain moves your groups indoors, a registrar overruns, a speech lasts twice as long as it was promised to. We carry an alternative for each and announce none of them, which is what separates a day that felt calm from one that merely looked calm in hindsight.
A local guide for couples marrying in Chalfont St Peter
Here are some places and local rules in and around Chalfont St Peter worth knowing about while planning a wedding day. Details come from the linked sources and can change, so check them before you book.
- Chalfont St Peter village. Chalfont St Peter is a large village and civil parish in south-east Buckinghamshire, between High Wycombe and Rickmansworth, with a population of 12,766 and the post town of Gerrards Cross (SL9). 1
- Rebuilding of St Peter's. The medieval church of St Peter collapsed in 1708 and was rebuilt in 1726. 2
- Councils. Chalfont St Peter has its own parish council and is otherwise administered by Buckinghamshire Council, the unitary authority created on 1 April 2020. 3
- Gerrards Cross station, 1.2 miles south of the village, is on the Chiltern Main Line with links to London Marylebone, High Wycombe, Oxford and Birmingham. 4
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What your wedding photography in Chalfont St Peter 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 Chalfont St Peter, frequently asked questions
Say so as soon as you possibly can. A free new date moves across with your deposit and nothing else alters. A taken one we tell you about immediately, then help you find somebody good rather than sitting on money for a day we cannot work.
Yes, before anything is paid. It sets out hours, deliverables, what happens should either party be unable to proceed, and how long your files stay backed up. Nothing here depends on a text message or a handshake.
Yes, and they pay for themselves. An hour of practice teaches us how you stand, which of you fidgets and which needs talking to, so your wedding is not the first occasion a lens has been aimed at the two of you.
Eight hours should suit a Chalfont St Peter wedding held under one roof. Split the day across two buildings and you want ten, since travel swallows the middle. Count backwards from the first dance, not forwards from breakfast.
Almost nobody is. You will be directed where direction helps, which is mostly the twenty minutes of portraits, and left alone otherwise. Being directed here means being told where to put your feet, not how to feel.
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