Wedding Photographer in Marlow
Considered, quiet coverage for your wedding in Marlow, whether you are marrying in a barn, a hotel or a marquee, with a second photographer available and personalised albums.
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Wedding photography from £750
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in Marlow, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, has run his studio since 2001 and offers couples marrying in Marlow calm, natural coverage backed by five European Kodak Gold Awards. In a tall church such as All Saints, where bouncing flash off the ceiling is no help, we would work with fast lenses and the daylight through the windows. Ceremonies around Marlow range from All Saints Church beside the bridge, finished in 1835 with its 52-metre spire, to Buckinghamshire Council's Dashwood Room at High Wycombe Library, the nearest council ceremony room for up to 10 people, and licensed venues such as Crowne Plaza Marlow and Danesfield House. If rain moves the portraits indoors from Higginson Park or the ceremony runs late, we adapt quietly and keep the mood light. An engagement shoot in Bisham Woods, with parking pull-ins on Quarry Wood Road, a second photographer for busier days and fine art albums can all be added, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
The suspension bridge designed by William Tierney Clark and completed in 1832 is the frame everyone expects, and it works best from a distance with All Saints Church behind it rather than head on. Higginson Park, the riverside park in the centre of this Thames market town, suits the couple's walk and the group photographs, with the river supplying the reflected light that flatters late afternoon portraits. Crowne Plaza Marlow and Danesfield House sit at different removes from the water, and that choice decides how much river reaches the finished pictures. Marlow railway station is the terminus of the branch line nicknamed the Marlow Donkey, running via Bourne End to Maidenhead, so rail arrivals take longer than guests expect. Cookham, Bisham and Henley-on-Thames supply the rest by road.
I had hired Mr Kaushik as our photographer for my son and daughters wedding fir all the ceremonies conducted and found him to be friendly professional with all the guests The quality of his photographs are excellent and are of high quality I was also very impressed when he had completed the albums He also give extra hours if needed and does not complain I would recommend to anyone
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!
Kaushik Bathia is a true professional—very calm, patient, and attentive to detail. I recommend him with confidence.
Serving Marlow
Choosing the ceremony room in Marlow
Capacity is what decides which room a ceremony goes in. Nobody checks the windows. That is why so many couples make their vows in the gloomiest corner of an otherwise bright building. Book a viewing timed to the ceremony's own hour, take the seat you will take, and note where daylight enters. Thirty minutes of that outperforms a week spent comparing suppliers. It is the only survey that matters.
The registrar is a variable, not a constant. One will stand well back; another wants silence in the room and the photographer seated throughout. Which of them you get is usually unknown until the final week, so our plan assumes the strictest and gets better if it can. All Saints Church and a licensed hotel room are two different ceremonies in one small town, and what happens afterwards, out on the same few streets, looks much the same either way.
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Every kind of wedding
The moments your Marlow day must include
Every wedding has a private set of things that must be recorded, and almost none of them appear on a standard shot list. A reading by somebody who rarely speaks in public. An elderly relative who will not last the evening. A framed face carried by someone who misses it. Give us those in a sentence each, weeks ahead, and we construct the day from them instead of from a template.
A schedule dies during the family group photographs. Twelve combinations eat about the time a first course takes, and each one needs somebody able to say the names out loud. Nominate two relatives from opposite sides who recognise everyone, cut the list to twelve or fewer, and place it immediately after the ceremony, before anyone wanders. Past that number we would rather catch people informally, and usually do it better. Say too which relatives cannot stand for long, since that reorders the sequence.
Why choose us
What Marlow couples can expect
We get there early, we stay to the last speech, and the closing hour is work, not an add-on. Nothing gets upsold afterwards. No gallery is held back. What you booked arrives by the date we gave you, which covers most of what couples actually want.
Planning a wedding around Marlow: useful places
If you are marrying in or near Marlow, these notes cover a few local venues, open spaces and landmarks. They are drawn from published sources; confirm times, capacities and bookings with each place directly. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Buckinghamshire Council ceremony rooms. Buckinghamshire Council's own ceremony rooms are at the Judges Lodgings (up to 60) and the John Hampden Room (50) in Aylesbury, the Disraeli Room (25) and Midsomer Court (60) in Beaconsfield, and the Dashwood Room at High Wycombe Library (up to 10), the nearest to Marlow; capacities include the couple and registrars. 1
- Marlow Bridge, a Grade I listed suspension bridge designed by William Tierney Clark and built between 1829 and 1832, links Marlow with Bisham in Berkshire and is a smaller version of his Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest. 2
- Higginson Park is the riverside park in the centre of Marlow, with a bronze statue of Sir Steve Redgrave looking across the river towards the regatta finishing line. 3
- Bisham Woods, a Woodland Trust site of about 153 hectares on the hillside between Marlow and Maidenhead with parking pull-ins on Quarry Wood Road, is over 90% ancient woodland. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Marlow 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 Marlow, frequently asked questions
Documentary, mostly, broken by the family groups and by ten minutes with just the two of you somewhere the light behaves. Arrivals are not staged, no one gets sent back up an aisle to repeat it, and the edit stays consistent rather than fashionable.
Yes. We ask for one, in fact. Meeting beforehand means we recognise faces, know which relatives ought not to be seated together, and understand what worries you. Half an hour usually does it.
Nothing is held until an agreement comes back signed and a booking fee has cleared; enquiries reserve nothing. The remainder falls due some weeks before the wedding, never after. We ask because two couples chase the same Saturday more often than anybody expects.
We do the first pass, since sequencing is part of the work and reacting to a draft is easier than facing a blank page. After that you move things, cut things and ask for whatever is missing until the thing reads as your day.
Neither word describes a wedding day accurately. We document what happens and step in twice: once for the groups on your list, once for ten minutes away from the room. Everything else in Marlow goes unnoticed.
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