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Wedding Photographer in Epsom

A wedding photographer in Epsom who lets the day breathe, covering church, civil and register office ceremonies alike, with award-winning work and hand-crafted albums to treasure.

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Your wedding photographer in Epsom, at a glance

Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, would photograph your Epsom wedding himself, bringing 25+ years of experience and five European Kodak Gold Awards. Each image is colour corrected by hand rather than by preset, so moving from an indoor ceremony at Bourne Hall in Ewell to portraits outside afterwards does not show as a jump in the album. In and around Epsom that might be a civil ceremony at The Mansion, Leatherhead Register Office, for up to 58 guests, a larger day at Epsom Downs Racecourse or the Royal Automobile Club at Woodcote Park, or exclusive use of Nonsuch Mansion, as well as multicultural and fusion celebrations. Planning keeps a day calm, so if you would like portraits on Epsom and Walton Downs we would set them for the afternoon, since racehorses train on the gallops in the mornings and the public are asked to visit after noon. A second photographer, an engagement shoot and hand finished albums can all be added, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.

Very little shelters the top of the downs. A wedding at Epsom Downs Racecourse, the course that hosts the Derby, sits on open ground where the light is unfiltered and wind will affect veils and hair all afternoon, so put the group photographs somewhere with something solid behind them and save the couple portraits for the softer hour before sunset. The Royal Automobile Club at Woodcote Park, a private members' club, also holds a ceremony licence for up to 160 guests. Nonsuch Park, between Cheam and Ewell, gives a gentler and more enclosed setting, and at the racecourse the group position is best scouted before guests arrive rather than chosen on the day. Epsom station is a junction where the lines to London Waterloo and London Victoria diverge, so guests may arrive in waves rather than together, while others drive in from Ashtead, Banstead and Tadworth.

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Civil ceremonies and licensed rooms in Epsom

Licensing settles a civil wedding before anybody thinks about decoration. Only certain rooms are approved to hold one, which reverses the usual order: the room picks you. It is frequently not the handsomest space in the building either, and often not the biggest. Learn that early, because the approved room and the room you imagined for photographs often sit on separate floors, with a staircase and a hundred guests between them.

A registrar's portion of the day is brief, and it runs on somebody else's clock rather than yours. Ask when they arrive, when they leave, and whether the room must be emptied first. Anything you want photographed inside those walls fits around the answers. Couples who ask ahead of time get a calm ten minutes afterwards, while everybody who did not ask is being politely moved along the corridor.

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What we offer

What is included in your Epsom wedding coverage

Morning Preparations

Engagement Shoots

Multi-Day Coverage

Every kind of wedding

Two-day festivities? Both days can sit in one Epsom booking

Everybody underestimates the group photographs. Twelve combinations on a list will outlast the ceremony itself, and what separates twenty minutes from fifty is whether that list exists on paper and whether a relative who can project has volunteered to call the names out loud. Appoint that person now, before the seating plan swallows your attention entirely. Photography is ours to handle. Shouting at your uncle, firmly and repeatedly, is not.

Where a celebration spreads over two days, book it as two jobs and not one long one. Day one tends to be smaller and more domestic, lit by fittings nobody ever chose with photography in mind; day two is formal and staged. That means different equipment, a different approach and often a different start time, and pretending otherwise is exactly how the quieter day ends up thinly covered. Mention both dates at enquiry so a second photographer goes against the correct one.

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Why choose us

Experience that shows in Epsom

Experience shows up mostly in what never happens. No panic when the rain starts, no scramble when speeches overrun, no group shot missing the relative who wandered off. A quarter century of weddings teaches you the failure modes, and steering quietly around those before anybody notices is the greater part of the job.

Bride and groom showered with confetti outside the venue

Wedding-day places in and around Epsom

Wedding plans usually start with where the ceremony and reception will be. The places below, in and around Epsom, are described from published pages, with a link to each source. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.

Nonsuch Park Nonsuch Park, between Cheam and Ewell, is managed jointly by Sutton and Epsom and Ewell councils and contains the site of Nonsuch Palace, begun by Henry VIII on 22 April 1538, with formal gardens kept by volunteers. Source: Nonsuch Park | Epsom and Ewell Borough Council
Bourne Hall and Ewell Court House Two venues in Ewell hold Surrey ceremony licences: Bourne Hall on Spring Street for up to 250 guests and Ewell Court House on Lakehurst Road for up to 110. Source: Step 2: Choose your perfect ceremony venue - Surrey County Council
Leatherhead Register Office The closest Surrey County Council ceremony room to Epsom is The Mansion, Leatherhead Register Office, at 70 Church Street, Leatherhead (KT22 8DP), licensed for up to 58 guests. Source: Step 2: Choose your perfect ceremony venue - Surrey County Council
The Royal Automobile Club, Woodcote Park The Royal Automobile Club at Woodcote Park, Epsom (KT18 7EW), is licensed by Surrey County Council for ceremonies of up to 160 guests in its Cedar Room and Derby Room. Source: Step 2: Choose your perfect ceremony venue - Surrey County Council

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Wedding photography in Epsom, frequently asked questions

Do you ask for a deposit to secure our date?+

Nothing is reserved until a deposit reaches us, and it counts toward what you pay later. Before that point anybody else enquiring can take the same day from under you. Popular summer dates disappear a very long time ahead.

Will you visit the venue before the day?+

Where the schedule permits, yes. Otherwise we work through it with you remotely: floor plans, the direction the windows point, the ceremony start and what daylight will be doing by then. Useful, but not the only route to arriving prepared.

Do you film video as well as photography?+

We photograph. Video is a separate craft and doing both at once serves nobody well, so we are happy to work alongside a film crew and can suggest videographers whose approach sits comfortably beside ours.

Do you provide high-resolution digital images?+

Yes, full resolution files, no watermark, print rights included. Take them to any lab you fancy. Web sized copies come too, so the version living on your phone is not several gigabytes of nothing.

Will my photos look natural or heavily filtered?+

Natural. Skin looks like skin, whites stay white, and a warmly lit room still reads warm instead of being corrected into something clinical. Heavy grading dates badly, and you will be looking at these for decades.