Wedding Photographer in Chorleywood
A wedding photographer couples can rely on in Chorleywood, whether the day is a quiet register office booking or a large family affair, with fine-art albums and prints ready when you are.
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Your wedding photographer in Chorleywood, at a glance
For couples marrying in or around Chorleywood, Kaushik Bathia offers award-winning wedding photography, backed by more than 25 years behind the camera and five European Kodak Gold Awards, with coverage from £750. Formal groups are kept quick and good-humoured, and at a venue such as Moor Park Golf Club, with 300 acres of parkland, we would choose the spot for them in advance so guests are not kept waiting. Hertfordshire County Council's nearest register office is at 31 Hempstead Road, Watford WD17 3EY, and while its ceremony room is closed for building work, ceremonies for up to 20 guests are held at Cheslyn House, set in 3.5 acres of gardens and woodland; a country house day at De Vere Latimer Estate or a church, marquee or multi-faith wedding is covered just as fully. Much of what experience brings is practical: arriving before the florist, noticing where a noisy fitting will spoil a quiet moment, and keeping out of the caterers' way. A second photographer, an engagement shoot and a hand-finished fine art album can all be added, and travel from Northwood to Chorleywood is not charged.
More than 75 hectares of Local Nature Reserve on the doorstep is unusual, and Chorleywood Common gives the village its strongest photographic setting. Its wooded grassland gives shade for portraits at noon and open ground for the full family group later, while the Chorleywood House Estate grounds add a second setting a short walk away. A reception at Chorleywood War Memorial Hall keeps everything in the village, whereas The Grove and Moor Park Golf Club are grander and need a transfer written into the timeline. Guests coming by train have a choice, because the station is served by both the Metropolitan line and Chiltern Railways trains to London Marylebone, so arrivals may stagger and the timeline should allow for it. Heronsgate, just south of the village, and the Chess Valley offer quieter spots if a short portrait stop is wanted between ceremony and meal.
Kaushik photographed out wedding on september last year. He was so professional and was great with everyone making them laugh before taking all the snaps. We really couldn't have asked for more he worked hard all day to get the best pictures. We are very pleased with all the pictures and love the photo album. We will differently be using you again in the future Thank you!
Kaushik is amazing to work with. He is friendly, patient and professional. He has a great eye for detail and goes the extra mile to make sure everything is perfect. The quality of his work is excellent and you can tell he really cares about what he does. Highly recommend!
Thank you for capturing our special day so well and creating beautiful photos that we will treasure forever. We love our stunning wedding album! You took the time to get to know us from the pre-shoot right up until the wedding day and made us feel comfortable and relaxed, and we had a lot of fun along the way especially with your silly little jokes to get us to laugh!
Serving Chorleywood
Planning a Chorleywood wedding with us
Paperwork picks your room. A licensed room got its licence for reasons unconnected to any camera, and its windows face whatever direction they were built facing. The questions therefore arrive in one order only: which room, then which hour, then whatever the daylight happens to be doing by then. Only the last of the three can be argued with, and only if the registrar has another slot free.
The main decision is whether the day stays inside one building or moves between two. Both work. Moving it spends time on the road and more time gathering everyone back together, and those minutes belong in the plan weeks earlier, not in a panic at half past three. Options near the village include Moor Park Golf Club, Chorleywood War Memorial Hall and The Grove.
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Every kind of wedding
Register office, country house or hotel
The legal part is brief. A handful of sentences, two signatures, one of them re-staged for you afterwards because the genuine one happens with heads down and pens moving. A registrar controls the tempo and nothing gets a second run, which makes preparation a question of position rather than reflex: establish in advance which spots a camera may occupy during a civil ceremony, since that call is the registrar's to make, not that of whoever let you the room.
Groups eat evening light faster than anything else on a wedding day. Write the list, put it in order, and nominate a relative who can recognise every face on it and call people forward. Eight groupings done properly beats twenty done badly, and the difference lies entirely in whether the people are standing nearby when called. Pick two outdoor positions in advance and one indoor position in case of rain.
Why choose us
What a Chorleywood couple can expect
Northwood houses the studio, and from there we cover Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and London. Expect straight talk during the planning, a light touch on the day, and photographs resembling the wedding that happened rather than one corrected afterwards into something else entirely. We would rather hand you an honest set than a fashionable one.
Wedding-day places in and around Chorleywood
Wedding plans usually start with where the ceremony and reception will be. The places below, in and around Chorleywood, are described from published pages, with a link to each source.
- Chorleywood village. Chorleywood is a village in Three Rivers District, Hertfordshire, about 20 miles north-west of central London, with a parish population of 11,286 at the 2011 census and the WD3 postcode. 1
- Chiltern Railways. Chorleywood station is also served by Chiltern Railways trains. 2
- Moor Park Golf Club, near Rickmansworth, holds weddings in its Grade I listed mansion within 300 acres of parkland, with the Main Dining Room seating up to 132 for the wedding breakfast and the Main Hall taking up to 200 in the evening. 3
- Sunken Garden and wisteria circle. Chorleywood House Estate has a Sunken Garden first designed for Lady Ela Russell, who lived at the house from 1892, and a Victorian iron wisteria circle whose plants are over 100 years old and flower between April and June. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Chorleywood 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 Chorleywood, frequently asked questions
Yes, but sparingly. Direction here means position and the angle of the light, not instructions about your hands. Nerves tend to ease quickly once it is clear nobody will be posing for long.
Natural, and corrected rather than restyled. Complexions keep their own colour, white fabric photographs white, and no fashionable tint goes on top to date the whole set within a decade. If you want something bolder, say so early and we can discuss it.
Previews arrive first, then the complete set when every image has been edited singly. The finished gallery takes weeks. Albums run longer still, largely because you will want the sequence changed at least twice.
On a day that behaves, less than people claim. On a day that does not, it is the whole thing. The thing being paid for is the response when a ceremony overruns, the sky opens, or the timing shifts under you.
Where the diary permits, and preferably with you rather than on our own. Otherwise a call and a floor plan get us most of the way. Send the room, the hour, and the direction its windows point.
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Wedding venues near Chorleywood
Before you visit a venue, these guides summarise its published capacity, catering, ceremony rules and parking, from Moor Park Golf Club's Grade I listed mansion to The Grove at Chandler's Cross, and note what is left out.
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Before the day, many couples book a pre-wedding or engagement shoot near Chorleywood, which also helps everyone relax in front of the camera.
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