Wedding Photographer in Hull

An award-winning wedding photographer for couples in Hull, whether the day is a quiet register office booking or a large family affair, so you can enjoy the day rather than manage the camera.

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Your wedding photographer in Hull, at a glance

An award winning, London based wedding photographer, Kaushik Bathia has spent more than twenty five years photographing weddings, and travels to Hull and right across East Yorkshire. Rather than posing you together, we ask you to walk away, talk to each other and ignore us, then photograph the third or fourth exchange once you have forgotten the instruction. We cover every kind of wedding in Hull, from church, civil and register office ceremonies to country houses, barns, marquees, hotels and garden venues, as well as multicultural and fusion celebrations. The awards are nice to have, but the real reassurance is a thousand couples who let us photograph one of the most important days of their lives. A second photographer, relaxed engagement shoots and hand finished fine art albums are all available, and we travel across East Yorkshire and the wider UK so distance is never a problem.

Port cities have big skies, and Kingston upon Hull, on the Humber Estuary in East Yorkshire, has more of it than most. East Park, one of Hull's largest Victorian parks with a boating lake and open lawns, is where that sky is most useful, giving soft, even light for group photographs with no hard shadow to fight. The Deep, the public aquarium on Sammy's Point where the River Hull meets the Humber, marks the point where the water opens out. Carlton Manor, Mercure Hull Grange Park Hotel, Lazaat Hotel and Burton Constable Hall spread the celebrations well beyond the city, so travel between locations is the number that decides the day. Hull Paragon Interchange takes trains from London King's Cross and Leeds, with Anlaby, Willerby and Kingswood on the edges. UK City of Culture in 2017 left the place well used to a camera.

Serving Hull

Why Hull couples ask us to photograph their day

Legally, a wedding is briefer than most people imagine. A few minutes of declarations, two signatures, a register, and the day reverts to you. The consequence in practice is that the ceremony is not where your photographs come from. It is the reason everyone is gathered in one room at one hour, and almost everything worth keeping sits before or after it.

Rooms around Hull vary more than brochures let on, and picking one is mostly picking which problem you prefer. Where the licensed room sits inside a house with grounds, you get somewhere to walk and something to do if the weather turns. A hotel gives you one set of doors and no travelling. A smaller setting gives you fewer chairs and more afternoon. Decide, then book. Couples here look at Carlton Manor, Burton Constable Hall, Mercure Hull Grange Park Hotel and Lazaat Hotel.

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What we offer

What is included in your Hull wedding coverage

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Every kind of wedding

Weddings for every couple in Hull

Registrars are not all alike. Some will have a photographer standing up at the front while vows are exchanged; others want every guest seated once things begin. It costs nothing to ask on arrival, and the answer settles whether the kiss is a wide frame or a long lens. That particular moment does not come round twice. Knowing which version of it you are about to get is worth the thirty seconds the question takes.

Group photographs are where afternoons vanish. Ten combinations run to roughly fifteen minutes if the person calling names actually knows the faces, and to most of an afternoon otherwise. Draw the list up, then surrender it to whichever relative carries across a crowded lawn, and go and have a drink. Speeches, and the dancing that follows, ask one thing of you, which is a decision about lighting. Make it in advance: a dark room photographs well, a half-lit one does not, and nobody enjoys being asked halfway through a toast.

Why choose us

Reputation built one Hull wedding at a time

Reputation of this kind gets built slowly and locally, one recommendation at a time. What couples say to us afterwards is never about equipment. It is that the day felt unmanaged: nobody was herded anywhere, nothing had to be done twice, and the photographs came back looking like the wedding they actually remember rather than one staged for a camera.

Good to know

Wedding photography in Hull, frequently asked questions

Who designs the album layout?+

We do, as a first draft. You get a proof, move whatever you want moved, and we rebuild it. Most couples adjust a few spreads and leave everything else alone. Nobody should need design software to own an album.

Is an engagement shoot part of what you offer?+

It books separately, and we would suggest it if either of you dislikes having a camera pointed your way. An hour of practice removes the strangeness, and invitation pictures fall out of it as a side effect.

How are the final images delivered to us?+

Digitally, through a gallery left open long enough for distant relatives to find their way in, with files sized for printing instead of screens. Prints and albums can be ordered from that gallery too, should you want them.

What is included in a typical Hull wedding photography package?+

A set number of hours in Hull, the edited images, and a gallery to share them from. Albums, extra hours and further locations sit on top instead of being bundled in, so nothing you will not use is being paid for.

Can you photograph our venue in Hull?+

We travel to venues throughout Hull and the country round it, and would sooner see a room ahead of the day than turn up cold. Where a visit is impossible, pictures of the space plus the ceremony time will do.