Wedding Photographer in Gillingham
Your photographer for weddings of every kind in Gillingham, for couples marrying in a church, a manor or a marquee, 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 Gillingham, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia, a Fellow of the BIPP and the MPA with five European Kodak Gold Awards, offers calm, natural coverage for weddings in Gillingham and across Medway. For couple portraits, perhaps on the trails at Riverside Country Park on Lower Rainham Road, we ask you to walk, talk and forget about us, then photograph the third or fourth exchange. A Gillingham wedding might mean a ceremony in the Library Room at Medway Register Office in Rochester, which holds up to 50 guests, a garden ceremony at the King Charles Hotel or an exclusive hire of the Commissioner's House at The Historic Dockyard Chatham, and we would photograph any of them. After 25+ years of weddings we arrive prepared, stay through the whole day and deliver the pictures on time. A second photographer, an engagement shoot in Gillingham Park on Canterbury Street and hand finished fine art albums are all available, and we travel from Northwood; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book.
Dockyard architecture wants scale and a wide lens; a hotel ballroom wants control of light and quick, confident group work. A wedding around Gillingham, the largest of the Medway towns, can ask for both, since The Historic Dockyard Chatham in neighbouring Chatham and the King Charles Hotel in Gillingham both host weddings. Gillingham station sits on the Chatham Main Line, with Southeastern services towards London Victoria, which helps guests arriving by train. Riverside Country Park, with its walking trails along the Medway estuary, gives an open estuary horizon that stays usable when the sky turns interesting, and it is the natural place to take a couple away from the room for twenty minutes. The Royal Engineers Museum on Prince Arthur Road tells the story of military engineering, and guests from suburbs such as Twydall, Wigmore and Hempstead have only a short journey.
Thank you for capturing our special day so well and creating beautiful photos that we will treasure forever. We love our stunning wedding album! You took the time to get to know us from the pre-shoot right up until the wedding day and made us feel comfortable and relaxed, and we had a lot of fun along the way especially with your silly little jokes to get us to laugh!
I have known Kaushik for almost 20 years & in the recent years has been doing various photo projects, where he has been responsive & professional. Highly recommended him.
…Kaushik's work is fantastic and he took so much stress out of our special day. He and his team are highly professional, fun and friendly and work with you to capture the shots that you want. He captured some amazing moments of both us and our guests, some natural, some posed but all truly wonderful. We were blown away by our albums and videos and have no hesitation in recommending him to our family and friends.
Serving Gillingham
Looking at your ceremony room in Gillingham
A licence, not taste, picks your ceremony room. Whatever else appeals about a building, if the marriage must be lawful inside it then the choice is already made for you, and licensed rooms are frequently the smallest and darkest space on the premises. Go and see it at the hour of day you will actually use, under grey sky, with the chairs set out. That half hour answers more than a brochure can.
After that the constraints loosen. A registrar's portion is short and tightly run, and the building becomes yours the moment it closes. Venues within reach include the King Charles Hotel and The Historic Dockyard Chatham. Ask what the light does at four on an afternoon in your month, and whether the room you eat in is also the room you dance in.
Check your date
Every kind of wedding
Civil, church and garden ceremonies around Medway
A civil ceremony gives you two standing points and a rule about not wandering between them. Registrars differ in what they will permit and they hold the authority in that room, so we ask first, then shoot inside the limits given. A church offers more floor and less light, and rules of its own on top of that. Either way the lawful core takes only minutes, and the pictures that survive it come from a spot chosen twenty minutes earlier.
The group photographs are what get underestimated. A list of ten runs quickly. A list of twenty five, each with three named people missing, swallows an hour of the drinks reception and puts everybody in hard light. Write the list, name someone from either family as a gatherer, and do all of it in shade. Speeches, then the first dance, want the reverse: no interference, and dim light held rather than fought.
Why choose us
Straight answers on your Gillingham timings
We are direct about what a day can and cannot contain. If the timings you have been given leave no room for what you want, we say so while the schedule can still absorb a change. That conversation, months out, outweighs whatever sits in the bag on the morning.
Wedding-day places in and around Gillingham
Wedding plans usually start with where the ceremony and reception will be. The places below, in and around Gillingham, are described from published pages, with a link to each source. We travel from Northwood; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book.
- Commissioner's House, The Historic Dockyard Chatham. The restored Georgian Commissioner's House and Gardens at The Historic Dockyard Chatham is licensed for ceremonies and hired exclusively for 15 to 200 guests, with the dockyard's slips, historic ships and 80 acres available for photographs. 1
- Fort Amherst and HMS Gannet. Medway Council's list of ceremony venues also includes Fort Amherst and HMS Gannet at The Historic Dockyard, both in neighbouring Chatham. 2
- The King Charles Hotel in Gillingham is on Medway Council's list of ceremony venues and holds garden ceremonies for up to 70 guests in a licensed landscaped garden, with licensed indoor suites as a wet-weather option. 3
- Largest of the Medway towns. Gillingham forms a conurbation with Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham and is the largest town in the borough of Medway, with a population of 111,033 in 2022. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Gillingham 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 Gillingham, frequently asked questions
Yes. Travel from Northwood to Kent is set out in your written quote, so nothing is added at the end. Tell us where the morning begins and where the night finishes, and the plan covers both.
Print them, frame them, put them online, post the lot to relatives abroad. Personal use of every kind is covered by the licence. The only thing excluded is selling them on commercially.
Once the venue is confirmed, book the photographer. Saturdays between June and September go first, and photography is usually the third or fourth supplier settled. Weekday and winter dates stay open considerably longer than that.
Yes, and we enjoy them. Flights and accommodation are quoted separately with nothing added for being outside the country. A day either side of the wedding tends to repay itself in pictures nobody else comes home with.
Hours drive it, plus albums and whether a colleague joins for the day. Send the date plus an idea of how long you need us, and a figure for your particular day comes back rather than a price list.
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