Wedding Photographer in Eastcote
An award-winning wedding photographer for couples in Eastcote, from getting-ready quiet to the noise of the dance floor, with a second photographer available and personalised albums.
★★★★★ Rated 4.8 from 580+ reviews
Wedding photography from £750
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Your wedding photographer in Eastcote, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, has more than twenty five years of photography behind him, holds five European Kodak Gold Awards and works from a studio in Northwood about 1.6 miles from Eastcote, with wedding photography from £750. At a small ceremony, such as one in the register office's Nova Room for up to 20 people, a long lens lets us photograph a grandmother's face from the back of the room without her noticing. Whether you marry at Hillingdon Register Office in Uxbridge, in the licensed stables at Eastcote House Gardens, in the Garden Room at The Cavendish or at The Grange in Northwood, we photograph the whole day as it happens. The evidence is there to check before you book: five European Kodak Gold Awards and a 4.8 rating from 580+ Google reviews. Engagement shoots, a second photographer and fine art albums can all be added, and travel within Eastcote is not charged.
A restored walled garden is close to the ideal wedding location, being enclosed, sheltered from wind, and built of brick that warms up in late sun. Eastcote House Gardens works as both a venue and the garden for family groups, which can keep the whole day on one site. The Cavendish on Field End Road is the other licensed choice in Eastcote, and The Grange in Northwood is close by. The Grade II listed station building by the architect Charles Holden is the local landmark and a genuinely good piece of design to photograph against, in keeping with the interwar shopping parade on Field End Road. The station serves both the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines in Zone 5, so guests come out by Underground from central London. Ruislip Manor and Rayners Lane are the neighbouring stops, and the studio is in Northwood, close to Northwood Hills station.
Kaushik has created the perfect wedding albums for us to share with our loved ones forever, the family love them and we couldn't have asked for more. Beyond our expectations. A true professional, great communication and an understanding individual throughout the whole process. Thank you!!!
Kaushik is a fantastic photographer — professional, easy to work with, and incredibly talented. Highly recommend!
The Owner is very friendly and professional. I have been using Mr Bathia for over 15 years and have seen him through multiple family weddings.
Serving Eastcote
Getting married in Eastcote? Here is how the day would run
Your room is chosen by paperwork and not by taste. A licence attaches to one particular space within a building, and that space need not be the one whose windows you would have picked. Establish which room carries it before anybody falls for a view. The answer settles your ceremony light, how many chairs will fit, and what proportion of the afternoon must happen elsewhere. It also tells you how early to book.
A registrar is the other fixed point. They come on their own schedule, see each of you separately first, and leave once signing is finished, and none of that flexes for a camera. Everything else is planned backwards from that half hour. Guests, meanwhile, trickle in off two Underground lines in Zone 5 rather than arriving as one coachload, which flatters candid pictures and ruins any receiving line that assumes a full room.
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Two-day festivities? We plan for those as well
The legal part goes by fast. Fifteen minutes will cover a civil ceremony, so the photographs that carry your set get made everywhere other than there. Arrivals, the walk back out, speeches, a first dance: those hold the day up. Ask your registrar in good time where a photographer is allowed to stand during the declarations, since they decide it themselves and will not revisit it with a room full of guests.
Two days alters the arithmetic without altering the method. The second is generally looser, later and less formal, so one photographer covers it wide and with almost no schedule at all. Groups stay the exception on both days. Give us a written list, one nominated shouter per family, and a position picked before the sun has moved off it, because an overrunning group session eats the drinks hour and never hands it back. Should there be a receiving line, put it ahead of the meal.
Why choose us
Experience you can rely on in Eastcote
Experience, in this trade, mostly shows up as things not going wrong. The planning covers how long a hundred people take to sit down, when a speech is likely to overrun, and which ten minutes of an afternoon are worth guarding. Nobody turns up on your day without having thought it through first.
Before you book in Eastcote: places worth knowing
The notes below describe a handful of places in and around Eastcote, from venues to parks and landmarks. Each is summarised from a published source linked beside it; details such as capacity and opening times can change.
- Eastcote House Gardens on High Road, Eastcote (HA5 2FE), has been at the heart of Eastcote for more than 500 years and has a walled garden, a 17th-century timber-framed stables, a dovecote and old and new orchards. 1
- Eastcote House Gardens Stables. The restored stables at Eastcote House Gardens are fully licensed for wedding ceremonies and receptions for up to 50 guests, set in the grounds of a 16th-century estate. 2
- Hillingdon Register Office is in the Civic Centre on the High Street in Uxbridge (UB8 1UW), with the Nova Room for ceremonies of up to 20 people and the Astra Suite for up to 80. 3
- Eastcote Village conservation area. Eastcote Village, which reaches towards Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve, surrounds a park-based conservation area on the upper slopes of the River Pinn that takes in the cricket pitch, Eastcote House Gardens and Haydon Hall Park. 4
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What your wedding photography in Eastcote 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 Eastcote, frequently asked questions
Within days you have a preview set, edited far enough to send on to whoever asks. Some weeks after that the full gallery lands, because colour work across several hundred frames is slow when done properly. Albums are built once you have chosen.
Look at complete weddings and never at highlight reels. Twenty good frames prove nothing. Ask for one entire wedding day, arrival through to last dance, then judge whether the flat hour after lunch got the same attention as the vows.
Say so at once. If your replacement date is open, the booking moves across and the deposit travels with it. If it has gone, naming other photographers worth calling is more use to you than enforcing a day nobody wants.
Coverage starts from £750 and no single figure fits every couple, since a short afternoon and a two-day event are different commissions entirely. The levers are how many hours we stay, whether anyone works alongside us, and album size. Outline your day and a written quotation follows.
Yes, and a conversation beats a finished document handed over. Send whatever your venue has issued. We will say which windows go dark first, where queues build, and which thirty minutes of the afternoon are worth defending from everybody else.
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