Wedding Photographer in High Wycombe
Fine-art wedding photography with a documentary heart in High Wycombe, from the ceremony and the confetti to the speeches and the first dance, with fine-art albums and prints ready when you are.
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Wedding photography from £750
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in High Wycombe, at a glance
From his studio at 21 Joel St in Northwood, Kaushik Bathia, established in 2001, travels to High Wycombe and venues such as Danesfield House and Crowne Plaza Marlow. Through the vows and speeches we work from a distance with longer lenses, so nobody feels watched and genuine reactions come through. An intimate ceremony for ten in the Dashwood Room, a large day at The Old Town Hall or a Palladian setting at West Wycombe Park: however you marry in High Wycombe, we photograph the whole day as it happens. A quarter of a century of weddings has taught us that a bigger gallery is rarely a better one. Six hundred carefully chosen frames tell your story better than three thousand unsorted ones. Add an engagement shoot, perhaps on the Rye beside the River Wye or in the parkland at Hughenden, a second photographer or a fine art album; travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Chilterns towns tend to have a hill on at least one side, and the light drops away earlier because of it, which matters when a schedule is planned to the minute. The Rye, a riverside park between the River Wye and the Dyke with open grassland and an outdoor pool, is the local answer for portraits and group work. Hughenden Manor, the National Trust country home of former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli just north of the town, is the landmark. Danesfield House and Crowne Plaza Marlow take the celebrations, and each involves a drive that has to be budgeted honestly. High Wycombe has a large South Asian community, including a sizeable Pakistani population, and hosts an annual Asian Mela on The Rye. The station is on the Chiltern Main Line towards London Marylebone, with the M40 close by.
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.
Would 100% recommend Kaushik Bathia Photography! Kaushik and his team photographed all my wedding functions and I couldn't be happier with the results. He listened to us, got to know our family and close one's and captured all the special moments. We had a great mixture of romantic portraits and natural candid photos of the ceremony. Thank you so much for the most beautiful, treasured wedding photos!
Kaushik is charming and professional, instantly made us feel comfortable and relaxed and made the whole experience fun and enjoyable.
Serving High Wycombe
Choosing your ceremony room in High Wycombe
A licence, not daylight, decides where the ceremony happens, and the two seldom agree. Stand in that room yourself at whatever time yours is set for, on an ordinary weekday when nothing is booked, and watch where the light actually arrives from. A space with one high window behaves quite differently mid-afternoon than it does in a brochure. While a booking is still provisional, that remains the one thing you can change.
Everything after that is scheduling. Ask yourselves early whether the whole day sits in one building or two, because a second address adds a second arrival, and your group list is what shrinks when that arrival slips. We would rather set the timings with you than receive them finished, since a photographer who can see the next hour coming is standing there before it starts.
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Every kind of wedding
Civil, country house or hotel weddings around High Wycombe
Civil ceremonies are brief, and the registrar owns the room while one lasts, so a camera's freedom is settled by whoever conducts yours. That varies, and it is not worth arguing with. We ask on arrival, once, then stay inside the answer without raising it again. Churches present the reverse difficulty: space and time in abundance, plenty of dark oak, and windows set far too high to light a face properly.
Group shots are what couples routinely underestimate. Each name on the list spends a few minutes of your drinks hour, and the sum is entirely predictable, so decide beforehand how much of the afternoon should go on it. Appoint one loud relative who can name people on either side; that person does more for the schedule than any photographer's voice can. Speeches read better from the listening side. Nothing earlier in the day poses the exposure problem a first dance does.
Why choose us
How much experience do we bring? Long enough to relax
Calm is the thing years of this actually buy. Nothing that happens at a wedding is unfamiliar, so nothing at yours turns into a problem you have to watch being solved. We move quietly, we never run, and the things that habitually go wrong already have an answer waiting.
Wedding-day places in and around High Wycombe
Wedding plans usually start with where the ceremony and reception will be. The places below, in and around High Wycombe, are described from published pages, with a link to each source. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Dashwood Room, High Wycombe Library. Buckinghamshire's High Wycombe ceremony room is the Dashwood Room on the mezzanine floor of High Wycombe Library in the Eden Centre, seating 10 guests. 1
- The Rye. East of the town centre, the Rye is an extensive park with the River Wye, the Dyke and the Rye Lido, and the site of a Roman villa built around AD 150-170. 2
- Wycombe Museum on Priory Avenue (HP13 6PX) is a free museum in a Grade II listed building partly from the 1600s, with gardens and a collection of more than 20,000 items centred on chair-making. 3
- Danesfield House on Henley Road, Marlow (SL7 2EY), completed in 1901, has 65 acres of formal gardens overlooking the River Thames and the Chiltern Hills and hosts weddings. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe, frequently asked questions
A wedding covered over one day in High Wycombe generally runs into the many hundreds of finished images. Hours booked and guest numbers move that figure either way; we would rather send a smaller set where every frame is worth looking at.
Yes. Nobody expects a wedding to be paid for in one movement, so a schedule of part-payments goes into writing at the outset and nothing about it shifts afterwards. Tell us during the enquiry and it can be shaped around your other suppliers.
Yes, selectively. Colour that fights the picture, mixed lighting in a gloomy room, or a frame that is entirely about a face all convert well. Both versions of those go into the gallery, so the choice stays yours.
Yes, and they are yours to keep rather than licensed back to you. The gallery downloads as full-size files. Put a copy somewhere other than the phone you carry, since that is how these things usually get lost.
Yes. Every building has a fallback position and we locate it while daylight is still around, so nobody improvises if the sky closes in. Beyond that, one flash bounced properly beats four aimed badly.
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Wedding venues near High Wycombe
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