Wedding Photographer in Epping

An award-winning wedding photographer for couples in Epping, from the ceremony and the confetti to the speeches and the first dance, with a second photographer available when the day calls for it.

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Wedding photography from £750

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Your wedding photographer in Epping, at a glance

Kaushik Bathia has photographed weddings across Essex for over twenty five years, and couples in Epping choose him for calm, natural coverage backed by more than a thousand weddings and five European Gold awards. Children set the tone at a wedding, and if they are photographed early and enjoying themselves, the adults around them relax considerably faster than any amount of coaxing would manage. From intimate register office ceremonies to grand country house weddings, and from village churches to garden and marquee celebrations, we photograph every kind of wedding in and around Epping. Couples have trusted us for over two decades, and much of our work still comes from the friends and family of people we have photographed before. You can add an engagement shoot, a second photographer and hand finished albums, and we are glad to travel across Essex and beyond, so wherever your day is held it is well within reach.

Ancient woodland is the defining asset, and the glades of Epping Forest are what to plan around from the start. Old trees create dappled light that can wreck a group photograph if the position is chosen carelessly, so the trick is to find open glade rather than closed canopy and to place everyone in even shade. For couple portraits the opposite applies, since the deep, textured woodland is the whole point. Gaynes Park, Blake Hall and the Kings Oak Hotel are the established venues, with Copped Hall nearby. Being the eastern terminus of the London Underground Central line means London guests arrive without cars, though the last train home is worth checking before the evening timings are fixed. North Weald, Coopersale and Thornwood are all close, useful when family need somewhere to stay near this market town.

Serving Epping

Where your Epping wedding story begins

Paperwork picks the room. That is worth saying plainly, because couples fall for a building and then discover the ceremony must take place in the one part of it with a low suspended ceiling and a north-facing window. Ask which rooms are licensed before the garden wins you over. Ask, too, where the registrar will end up standing, since that settles which side of the aisle is useful and which is wasted.

Epping offers more choice than a town of its size ought to, with woodland alongside it giving a background that costs nothing and works in nearly any weather. Northwood holds our studio, and Essex days of every size come our way, from a dozen people at a register office to a marquee holding several hundred. Gaynes Park, Kings Oak Hotel and Blake Hall are the local names, and Copped Hall stands nearby.

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What we offer

What is included in your Epping wedding coverage

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The Speeches

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Multi-Day Coverage

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Every Venue Covered

Every kind of wedding

Every kind of wedding, welcomed

A civil ceremony is a brief thing, and its legally required core is briefer still. Most of what a couple remembers gets made in the minutes either side: the waiting, the walk in, the look between two people who have just understood that it is done. During the ceremony itself we work from two fixed positions agreed beforehand with the registrar, and we stay in them. Moving about during something this short is how a photographer becomes the story.

The group shots are where a wedding loses its afternoon, and a list is the only cure. Eight arrangements, people named, plus one relative per family who recognises the whole guest list and is prepared to shout. Done that way it is quick. Done by asking a crowd who comes next, it swallows the drinks reception. First dance and speeches each need a single decision, whether we light them or let the room do it, and that decision wants making well beforehand.

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Why choose us

Experience that shows in Epping

Experience shows in the dull parts. We get there early, locate the fuse box before anybody needs it, carry a plan for rain that does not involve everybody crowding into a doorway, and ask a registrar what is permitted instead of guessing. Unglamorous, every bit of it, and precisely why the pictures arrive.

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Wedding photography in Epping, frequently asked questions

Yes. A written contract is signed before any money moves. The hours, the names, the deliverables, the dates and the cancellation terms are all in it. Nothing about your booking exists only as a conversation.

That is what the insurance is for, alongside a network of photographers at the same level who can take over. The call would come first thing rather than at noon, and you would know within minutes.

Yes. Where the timings allow, we would look round in advance, check the licensed room, the wet-weather option and the ground outside, then come back to you with the sequence of pictures Epping makes possible.

Most people are, and it passes. A long lens covers most of the day from well back, and the portrait session is short, done in one spot, with directions simple enough that nobody needs to act.

Yes, and the sooner the better. Send whatever running order you have; we mark the hours where light will help, where the day is too tight, and which quarter of an hour in Epping to keep for yourselves.

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