Wedding Photographer in Kensington and Chelsea
An easygoing wedding photographer working across Kensington and Chelsea, from the morning nerves right through to the sparklers at midnight, backed by more than a thousand weddings behind us.
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Wedding photography from £750
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Your wedding photographer in Kensington and Chelsea, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia has photographed weddings across Greater London for over twenty five years, and couples in Kensington and Chelsea choose him for calm, natural coverage backed by more than a thousand weddings and five European Gold awards. First dances are usually lit by whatever the DJ has, so we bounce a small light off a ceiling or a side wall rather than firing directly at you and flattening the room. Whatever your wedding looks like in Kensington and Chelsea, a church service, a register office, a country house, a barn or a hotel, and whatever your traditions, we photograph the whole day as it happens. After a quarter of a century of weddings, we stay calm when timings change, which they often do, and we adjust without any fuss reaching you or your guests. A second photographer, relaxed engagement shoots and hand finished fine art albums are all available, and we travel across Greater London and the wider UK so distance is never a problem.
Elegant garden squares, Georgian townhouses and the museums of South Kensington make this royal borough one of the most photogenic in London and one of the most tightly scheduled. The Orangery at Kensington Palace, Chelsea Old Town Hall, The Chelsea Harbour Hotel and The Ivy Chelsea Garden each set a different pace. Holland Park, including the Kyoto Garden, is the portrait ground worth the journey, offering enclosed, quiet greenery that looks nothing like the streets outside and gives a couple ten minutes of calm. The Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road provides the borough's landmark facade. South Kensington and Sloane Square stations serve the District and Circle lines, so guests from Notting Hill, Knightsbridge and Earls Court rarely need a car. Twenty-five years and five European Gold awards mostly amount to working calmly in settings where there is no second chance.
Serving Kensington and Chelsea
Wedding photographs made in Kensington and Chelsea
Legally, a wedding takes very little time. Nearly everything around it was decided months earlier, at the point you chose the room. A space licensed for ceremonies spends the remainder of its year doing something else, and that other function explains why the chairs face as they do. Book a viewing for the same hour of day as your ceremony; a weekday morning walk-round explains very little about a Saturday afternoon.
Size is the other early call. A room comfortably filled photographs better than a grander one standing half empty, because empty chairs read as absence in every wide frame. Holland Park handles portraits afterwards if the schedule allows the trip, and the Kyoto Garden inside it is worth the extra minutes. Guests arriving by Underground tend to land in one clump rather than trickling, so plan the arrival window accordingly.
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What we offer
What is included in your Kensington and Chelsea wedding coverage
Relaxed Group Photos
Every Venue Covered
Every kind of wedding
Room for every ritual, every reading, every custom
Whoever conducts your ceremony sets the rules for us, and those rules vary by individual rather than by borough. A few are relaxed about a photographer moving during the vows themselves. Others want everybody rooted at the back and staying put. Raise it at your meeting with them, well before the morning, since the answer decides our positions and therefore what exists to print later. Ask early; it is rarely negotiable afterwards.
Group photographs run quicker if the calling is done by a relative able to identify everyone on sight. Write a shorter list than feels right, take the biggest grouping first, then let people go. Speeches are covered from wherever the reactions are, not from wherever the speaker is. A first dance needs a dark room and someone keeping an eye on the door. The receiving line deserves patience: it is where every guest gets a moment with you, one at a time.

Why choose us
A photographer who has seen it all before, calmly
Calm is the whole offer. Very little at a wedding is new to us, so a car running late or an unexpected downpour shifts the plan and leaves the manner alone. Nobody gets chased for shots, and once a ceremony begins we are not in anybody's eyeline.

Good to know
Wedding photography in Kensington and Chelsea, frequently asked questions
Yes. The finished pictures come to you at their full size, unmarked, and printing them is entirely your business. Delivery is by download, and the link stays open for months so that nothing needs saving in a panic.
No. It needs a licensed operator, permissions specific to the airspace, and weather that rarely cooperates on an English afternoon. If aerial views matter to you, hire a specialist for that alone rather than expecting it bundled in.
Late afternoon, in the hour when the light finally drops, whenever that falls in your month. Failing that, whenever the sun goes behind cloud. Midday is the harshest option available and the one most schedules pick without thinking.
Yes, and the results are frequently better. A shorter guest list means fewer arrangements to marshal and more time spent watching people instead of assembling them. Small Kensington and Chelsea weddings are quoted as carefully as large ones.
Hours, the number of people who need photographing, and whatever you want produced afterwards. Those three things set it. Sketch out your Kensington and Chelsea day for us and an itemised figure comes back in writing.
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