Wedding Photographer in Maple Cross
Twenty-five years of wedding photography brought to Maple Cross, for weddings large and small, formal or wonderfully laid-back, with pre-wedding shoots, flexible timings and heirloom albums.
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Wedding photography from £750
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Your wedding photographer in Maple Cross, at a glance
For couples marrying in Maple Cross, Kaushik Bathia offers award winning wedding photography, with more than twenty five years of experience and over a thousand weddings behind the camera. Every frame is captured to two memory cards at once, so the day exists in duplicate from the moment it is photographed, not from the moment we get home. Whatever your wedding looks like in Maple Cross, 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. We know the shape of a wedding day well enough to keep the formal pictures short and the day on track, so you get back to your guests quickly. A second photographer, relaxed engagement shoots and hand finished fine art albums are all available, and we travel across Hertfordshire and the wider UK so distance is never a problem.
Access to this small Three Rivers village runs through junction 17 of the M25 and the A412 Denham Way, and the village itself is made up largely of post-war housing on the western fringe of Rickmansworth. That position is an advantage, because several substantial venues sit within a short drive, including The Grove, The Waterside Venue, Moor Park Golf Club and Denham Grove, so a couple can marry locally and still reach a large reception quickly. Maple Lodge Nature Reserve in the Colne Valley Regional Park is the quiet outdoor option, offering water and planting rather than manicured lawn. The Cross Inn, a seventeenth-century former coaching inn, gives the village its one piece of old brick and timber. Guests arriving from Rickmansworth, West Hyde and Chorleywood have short journeys, which makes a more ambitious portrait schedule realistic here than in most places.
Serving Maple Cross
Getting married in Maple Cross? Here is how we photograph it
The licensed room you choose when you book is the largest photographic decision of the entire wedding, and most couples make it by counting chairs. Look up instead. Windows behind the registrar's table will silhouette the pair of you; windows off to one side put modelling on faces and cost nothing extra. Visit at the hour you actually intend to marry, in the season you intend to marry in, not on a wet Tuesday in December.
The legal business is short. Depending on how your vows are worded it can be finished in fifteen minutes, which startles anyone who has planned a whole year towards it. Everything else therefore carries the album, and everything else is where our attention goes: the twenty minutes before anyone arrives, when one of you is genuinely nervous, and the stretch afterwards while a formal room is being turned into a party.
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What we offer
What is included in your Maple Cross wedding coverage
Fast Online Gallery
Relaxed Group Photos
Every kind of wedding
Whatever your ceremony looks like in Maple Cross
Registrars vary, and not trivially. You may be allowed to work from the front for the vows themselves; you may be told to stay behind the last row throughout; you may hear at the rehearsal that nothing can be photographed while the declaratory words are spoken. Nothing in that survives renegotiation on the day, so yours gets asked the week before instead of at ten past two on a Saturday. A restrictive answer simply means a longer lens and one fixed position.
Settle the group list well ahead too. Eight combinations will take twenty minutes and hurt nobody; thirty will take an hour, and it is that hour your guests will remember, queueing on grass. Write it out, appoint an aunt from either family who attaches faces to names without hesitating, and hand it over the night before. We get through it quicker than you expect, then leave you be.

Why choose us
Why the hours we have logged matter on your day
Experience mostly presents itself as speed. Knowing without checking which corner of an unfamiliar room will work, noticing that speeches are overrunning and moving you outside while colour is still in the sky, spotting a grandmother sitting on her own. None of that is technique. It is having seen the shape of enough days to read this one.

Good to know
Wedding photography in Maple Cross, frequently asked questions
Not as standard. A licensed operator is required, the landowner has to agree, the weather has to cooperate, and indoors it contributes nothing. Where grounds genuinely repay an aerial view, we arrange it as an extra.
A preview set lands inside roughly a week; the complete edit follows a few weeks later. Albums run longer, because choosing takes you time. Booking comes with a firm date attached, and that date holds.
Yes, and the reason for doing one is rarely stated. It buys an hour of practice with no audience present, so that by the wedding neither of you freezes when a camera turns your way.
Yes. Hertfordshire and the counties around it are ordinary working ground, and a village address attracts no extra charge. Send a venue and a ceremony time and you get confirmation that day.
Summer Saturdays disappear earliest, often a good twelve months ahead of the date. Midweek and winter dates stay available much later on. With a date and venue settled, ask now; if you are still deciding, ask anyway and find out what remains.
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