Wedding Photographer in Ealing
An easygoing wedding photographer working across Ealing, for church, civil and fusion celebrations of every kind, backed by over a thousand weddings and five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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Wedding photography from £750
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in Ealing, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia has photographed weddings for more than 25 years, and couples marrying in Ealing can book him for calm, natural coverage backed by five European Kodak Gold Awards. Natural light comes first, whether in the chandeliered Ballroom at The Drayton Court Hotel or on the Roof Terrace at The Brentham Club, with a soft flash added only if a room is too dark. Ealing Council holds its register office ceremonies in the Small Hall of The Brentham Club, for up to 30 guests, while Pitzhanger Manor offers exclusive-use weddings in a Grade I listed house, so the borough suits both small and grand days. Kaushik holds fellowships of both the BIPP and the MPA, which are awarded on panels of work rather than time served. Coverage starts from £750 and an engagement shoot, a second photographer or a hand-finished album can be added; at about 8 miles from Northwood, travel to Ealing is not charged.
Long nicknamed Queen of the Suburbs, this west London borough offers something unusual: a wedding venue and its park are the same place. Pitzhanger Manor, the country home redesigned by the architect Sir John Soane, stands on the edge of Walpole Park, a Grade II listed park, so the ceremony, the family groups and the couple portraits can all happen within a few minutes' walk and nothing is lost to travel. Soane's Georgian rooms reward deliberate composition rather than quick reportage. The Brentham Club and The Drayton Court Hotel are the other options. Ealing Broadway station is an interchange for the Elizabeth line and the Central and District lines, so guests arrive from across London without cars, and those from West Ealing, Northfields and Perivale are minutes away. From a Northwood base the run across is short.
Kaushik was exceptional at creating our wedding photo album! He designed it so beautifully and his customer service was the best. The album quality and design is amazing, we loved it! Wow what a great job. Highly recommend for photo albums.
We hired Kaushik for our wedding. He was a fantastic photographer, very professional and great to work with. Kaushik was very flexible with timings, he was patient, and produced amazing photos! We received our photos really quickly and the quality of them are really nice!! His communication throughout was really good and understood what I wanted. My family were also very happy with Kaushik and the photos.
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Serving Ealing
Choosing a ceremony room in Ealing
Only a licensed room will do for a civil ceremony, which means the register picks your room before anybody considers how it photographs. Licensed rooms and rooms that photograph well are not the same set at all. You do not get the prettiest space in a building. You get the approved one. Stand in it at the exact hour the ceremony is due, rather than on an afternoon tour, and watch which way the light arrives.
The borough's interchange carries three lines, so many guests may arrive without a car and leave when the trains do, which sets a quiet curfew on your evening. Plan the closing hour of coverage around a timetable rather than around the band. The borough holds a heritage house, a clubhouse and a hotel ballroom. Local venues include The Brentham Club, Pitzhanger Manor and The Drayton Court Hotel. The afternoon belongs to Walpole Park, which holds a Grade II listing.
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Every kind of wedding
Civil, church and garden weddings in Ealing
The words that actually marry you take two or three minutes, and everything either side of them is elective. That inverts the usual shooting plan, because a civil ceremony finishes before a photographer still hunting an angle has found one. Standing positions get agreed with the registrar on arrival, in person, before a single guest sits down, and nothing changes after that. Registrars differ, and the one you meet decides.
Churches hand you the opposite problem: length, height, a dark middle and bright glass at either end. Speeches are the easiest thing in a day to photograph badly, since the speaker is lit and the faces reacting are not, and the reactions are the whole point. The first dance puts two people inside a ring of raised phones, so we take it in the opening minute, before anyone else crowds on. Keep a receiving line and you buy the only stretch where every guest faces you.
Why choose us
Established in 2001, calm on the day
The useful thing twenty-five years behind the camera buys is not artistry. It is that almost nothing on the day is unfamiliar, so no minute gets spent deciding what happens next. Couples read that as calm. What it actually is, is fewer decisions left to be made on the spot.
Ealing at a glance for your wedding day
Some places in and around Ealing to know about while planning a wedding day. Each note summarises a published source, linked so you can check the details.
- The Brentham Club in Ealing is a Grade II listed, licensed wedding venue set in 12 acres, with a Main Hall for up to 120 guests, a Small Hall for up to 30 and a licensed Roof Terrace for ceremonies or drinks receptions. 1
- Walpole Park lake, bridge and cedars. Walpole Park has Regency-planted beds, a fishpond with fountains and a Serpentine Lake, and its picturesque layout comes from John Haverfield, whom Sir John Soane engaged to redesign the grounds. 2
- Walpole Park is a 28-acre park in the centre of Ealing, opened to the public in 1901 from the former grounds of Pitzhanger Manor, and is listed Grade II on the Register of Parks and Gardens. 3
- The Hoover Building on Western Avenue, Perivale, an Art Deco former factory designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners and opened in 1933, is Grade II* listed. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Ealing 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 Ealing, frequently asked questions
Work out which moment you would be sorriest to lose, then buy enough hours to reach it. Many plans are padded at the front and thin at the back, because mornings feel important while you plan and evenings turn out to matter afterwards.
Yes, at no extra charge. We travel to Ealing as standard from Northwood, so nothing is added on that account. Do mention whether you are marrying and celebrating at one address or at two, since a second building alters the plan.
Yes. We would rather make a small dense book than a large padded one, so cutting the edit down belongs in the work and is never an upsell. You pick what goes in; the paper, the sequence and the press work are ours.
With a written list, an upper limit on it, and two relatives who can put names to faces. Groups can be settled months out, yet they get improvised beside a hedge more reliably than anything else you will do. Each extra grouping eats daylight.
Fewer, if you are marrying and eating under a single roof. Two buildings introduce a gap that must be paid for in coverage even though nothing photographable happens inside it. Send your Ealing running order over and the hours get marked against it.
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Wedding venues near Ealing
Each guide sets out what venues near Ealing, such as Royal Nawaab in Perivale, publish on capacity, catering, ceremony rules and parking, and what they leave out.
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