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, with more than 25 years of weddings and five European Kodak Gold Awards, offers couples in Epping calm, natural coverage from the preparations to the first dance, with travel from Northwood set out in your written quote before you book. If there are page boys and flower girls, we photograph them early while they are still enjoying themselves, because relaxed children settle the grown-ups around them faster than any coaxing. Weddings around Epping range from a 'You Plus Two' ceremony at the Essex Register Office in Chelmsford, for the couple and two witnesses, to barn and garden celebrations at Gaynes Park, Blake Hall or the Kings Oak Hotel at High Beach, and we would photograph any of them. Kaushik has photographed weddings since 2001 and is a Fellow of both the BIPP and the MPA, so the gallery you receive is made to last. An engagement shoot, perhaps among the 18th-century listed buildings of Epping High Street, a second photographer and hand-finished albums can all be added, and for couples giving notice locally, Essex County Council's Epping registration office is at Epping Library on St John Road.
Ancient woodland is the defining asset, and the glades of Epping Forest are what to plan around from the start, with the City of London Corporation's photography licence arranged well ahead. 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 near Ongar and the Kings Oak Hotel at High Beach all hold weddings, and Copped Hall, a Georgian mansion under restoration, stands nearby. Epping is the north-eastern terminus of the Central line, so London guests can 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.
A superb and highly professional wedding photographer. Throughout the registry and wedding ceremonies Kaushik Bathia took beautiful photographs ensuring he captured all the special moments. His friendly personality put everyone at ease and his unique ideas resulted in some wonderful family pictures which we will treasure forever.
I hired Kaushik for our wedding and I’m extremely glad I did!! Kaushik took amazing pictures and the quality of the pictures were amazing. Kaushik was very patient and was very helpful since the start. My family including our guest were constantly asking me who the photographer was as he gave the best service.
This photographer consistently demonstrates a keen eye for detail, producing work that stands out for its quality and precision. Their commitment to the craft is evident in the thoughtfulness of each captured moment. Thank you!
Serving Epping
Choosing the room for your Epping ceremony
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 might suggest, with the forest alongside it giving a background that works in nearly any weather. Our studio is in Northwood, and we would cover an Essex wedding of any size, from an intimate ceremony for a handful of guests to a marquee holding several hundred.
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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.
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.
Planning a wedding around Epping: useful places
If you are marrying in or near Epping, these notes cover a few local venues, open spaces and landmarks. They are drawn from published sources; confirm times, capacities and bookings with each place directly. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Epping Forest is an ancient woodland stretching 13 miles from east London into Essex, kept as public open space since the Epping Forest Act 1878, with the City of London Corporation as its Conservators. 1
- The Kings Oak Hotel at High Beach, in the southern part of Epping Forest, offers civil ceremonies and wedding receptions. 2
- Epping Registration Office. Essex County Council's Epping registration office is at Epping Library, St John Road, Epping (CM16 5DN). 3
- Blake Hall near Ongar, home to the Capel Cure family since 1789, holds weddings in three restored 17th-century barns (the Essex Barn, the Hay Barn and the Saddlery) set in 60 acres of gardens. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Epping 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 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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