Wedding Photographer in Chesham
An unhurried wedding photographer who works gently in Chesham, whether your day is a small gathering or a large family occasion, from a Northwood studio established in 2001.
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Wedding photography from £750
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in Chesham, at a glance
For couples marrying in or around Chesham, Kaushik Bathia offers award-winning wedding photography backed by more than 25 years' experience, with prices from £750. For couple portraits we would suggest the grounds at De Vere Latimer Estate, which the venue describes as looking across the Chess Valley, or a walk in Lowndes Park, keeping it brief and relaxed rather than posed. Whether you marry in a church such as the Grade I listed St Mary's in Chesham Old Town, at a licensed country house or in a hotel, we photograph the whole day as it unfolds. Licensed options include De Vere Latimer Estate at Latimer, with five ceremony suites from the Cheyne (60) to the Cavendish Suite (254), and Chenies Manor House, a Grade I listed Tudor house licensed for indoor and outdoor ceremonies, while Buckinghamshire Council's own ceremony rooms are in Aylesbury, Beaconsfield and High Wycombe. You can add a second photographer, a relaxed engagement shoot or a hand-finished album.
Chesham station is the terminus of the Metropolitan line and the furthest point on the Underground from central London, which 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 is a short walk from Lowndes Park, so the move from ceremony to open green space and pond need not involve a convoy of cars. That park is the right place for a full family group. The Chess Valley countryside around the town offers quieter ground if you want couple pictures after the meal.
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.
I needed some photos in a rush and Kaushik was very accommodating and helpful. He has a nice studio too. Happy to recommend!
Would 100% recommend Kaushik Bathia Photography! Kaushik and his team photographed all my wedding functions and I couldn't be happier with the results. He listened to us, got to know our family and close one's and captured all the special moments. We had a great mixture of romantic portraits and natural candid photos of the ceremony. Thank you so much for the most beautiful, treasured wedding photos!
Serving Chesham
Your wedding photographer for Chesham
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, is a short walk away. 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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Every kind of wedding
Church, civil or country house weddings near Chesham
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.
Why choose us
How we work on a Chesham wedding day
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.
Around Chesham: venues, open spaces and landmarks
A photographer's plan for a Chesham wedding would take account of the ceremony venue, the reception and any space for portraits between them. These notes, taken from published sources, describe a few local options. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Captain's Wood on Hivings Hill (HP5 2EW) is an ancient beech woodland on the edge of Chesham cared for by the Chiltern Society, free to visit all year, with bluebells and wood anemones in spring and a permanent beginners' orienteering course. 1
- Chesham town. Chesham is a market town in the Chess Valley in the Chiltern Hills, with a 2021 census population of 23,088, making it the fourth-largest town in ceremonial Buckinghamshire. 2
- Chesham station, on Station Approach (HP5 1DH), is the Zone 9 terminus of the Metropolitan line. 3
- Latimer House grounds. De Vere Latimer Estate describes its manicured grounds with views across the Chess Valley as suited to wedding photographs, and it is about a five-minute drive from the Metropolitan line. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Chesham 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 Chesham, frequently asked questions
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, to Chesham and to the villages surrounding it. Travel from Northwood is costed in your written quote, so the journey changes nothing about how your day is photographed.
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Guides to wedding venues within reach of Chesham, summarising their published capacity, catering, ceremony rules and parking, and what they omit.
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