Wedding Photographer Chesham | From £750, Rated 4.8/5

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Your wedding photographer in Chesham, at a glance

For couples marrying in Chesham, Kaushik Bathia offers award winning wedding photography, with more than twenty five years of experience and over a thousand weddings behind the camera. When we do gather you for couple portraits, we keep it brief and easy, walking and talking rather than posing, so the pictures still feel like you. Whatever your wedding looks like in Chesham, a church service, a register office, a country house, a barn or a hotel, and whatever your traditions, we photograph the whole day as it happens. We travel throughout the country for weddings and have grown used to new venues quickly, arriving prepared and settling into a room without fuss. 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.

Being the terminus of the London Underground Metropolitan line, and the furthest station from central London on the network, has one practical consequence for a wedding: guests travelling by Underground arrive in clumps, and the last train back is a real constraint on how late the dancing runs. Photographically the town works because St Mary's Church stands directly beside Lowndes Park, so the walk from ceremony to open green space and pond takes minutes rather than a convoy of cars. That park is the right place for a full family group. Receptions at De Vere Latimer Estate or Chartridge Lodge move the day out into the Chess valley, which is worth the drive for late light across open ground. Ley Hill, Chartridge and Bovingdon are nearby if somewhere quieter is wanted for couple pictures after the meal.

Serving Chesham

A wedding photographer for Chesham couples

Paperwork chooses the room, not you. Anything civil must take place somewhere licensed for it, which cuts the shortlist to whatever is approved rather than whatever is lovely, and the approved space inside a building is frequently not the space in the photographs that sold you on it. Ask which specific room carries that licence, then go and stand inside it at whatever time of day you plan to marry.

After that it is all geography. Lowndes Park, open and green with its pond, is where a genuinely large group can stand and still fit within one frame, and St Mary's, the parish church, sits close by. Beyond the centre sit two more names: Chartridge Lodge, De Vere Latimer Estate. Your choice comes down to staying put and buying time, or moving and buying variety. Neither answer is wrong, but only one of them suits your guest list.

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What we offer

What is included in your Chesham wedding coverage

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Relaxed Portraits

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Wall Art

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Quick Gallery

Every kind of wedding

No two Chesham weddings are alike, and that suits us

Legally, a wedding is startlingly brief. A pair of declarations, a pair of signatures, and the thing is finished while half your guests are still settling into chairs. Registrars generally will not want a camera up the aisle during it, and they say so on the morning, far too late for anybody to plan around. Put the question to the register office in writing, months out, and keep their reply. We ask well beforehand, accept whichever position gets offered, and work long from wherever that leaves us.

Group photographs are what every couple underestimates. A list of a dozen combinations outlasts the ceremony it followed, and the cure is not hurrying us but shortening the list and handing the job of rounding people up to one loud relative. Half a dozen groups done properly beats twelve done badly, and the time saved goes on the couple, which is where framed pictures come from.

Wedding traditions photographed in Chesham

Why choose us

What you can expect from us in Chesham

We turn up early enough to see rooms while they are still empty. We photograph what occurs instead of arranging it, the family groups excepted, and those get run briskly because nobody enjoys them. You will not be walked anywhere twice, and nothing is re-staged once it is over.

Good to know

Wedding photography in Chesham, frequently asked questions

How are the final images delivered to us?+

By private gallery online, at full size, downloadable by you and by whoever you pass the link to. It remains up well beyond the slower relatives, and afterwards a backup sits with us should yours ever vanish.

How many photographs will we receive?+

Some hundreds for a full day, cut down out of far more. Near duplicates go, blinks go, and no total gets padded, because a gallery nobody reaches the end of is worth less than one opened twice.

Are the albums something you make yourselves?+

The layout is ours and the binding is done by a firm that does nothing else. A full proof comes to you first and anything can move before it goes to print. It is slow, and worth beginning while you still care about it.

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

Enough to get you moving, then we back off. Most people settle within minutes once their hands have a job and nobody appears to be watching them. After that we work at a remove.

Do you travel to Chesham for weddings?+

Yes, to Chesham and to the villages surrounding it. Nowhere in Buckinghamshire sits outside what we cover, nor do the counties bordering it, so the journey changes nothing about how your day is worked.