Wedding Photographer in Reading
Wedding photography in Reading for weddings large and small, formal or wonderfully laid-back, offering flexible packages, half or full-day coverage and pre-wedding shoots.
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in Reading, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia has photographed weddings for more than twenty-five years and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards, and for a Reading wedding he would plan the day around your venue, from The Roseate Reading on Forbury Square to De Vere Wokefield Estate outside the town. Formal groups are kept brisk and good humoured, whether they gather outside Reading Museum and Town Hall on Blagrave Street or at The Mansion House in Prospect Park, so you spend more of the day with your guests. Reading offers everything from the Ceremony Room at Reading Museum and Town Hall to The Mansion House in Prospect Park, Thames Lido on Napier Road and country estates such as Mapledurham, and whatever the setting or tradition, we photograph the whole day as it happens. Every wedding can be finished as a hand-made fine art album designed to be passed on, with room for the Maiwand Lion and the abbey ruins if your portraits are taken in Forbury Gardens. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Two rivers meet in this town, and the resulting mix of water, Victorian planting and modern commercial building gives a photographer more variety than the skyline suggests. Forbury Gardens sits beside the ruins of Reading Abbey, so weathered stone and structured Victorian beds are available in one place, which is efficient when the portrait window is thirty minutes rather than an hour. De Vere Wokefield Estate, Wasing Park and Crowne Plaza Reading East all sit outside the centre, so the journey from a town centre ceremony is written into the timeline rather than assumed away. Reading station is a major interchange for Great Western, the Elizabeth line and cross country services, close to junctions 10 and 11 of the M4, so travelling family arrive from several directions at once. Guests based in Caversham, Earley or Calcot can be called for group photographs at short notice.
Kaushik was exceptional at creating our wedding photo album! He designed it so beautifully and his customer service was the best. The album quality and design is amazing, we loved it! Wow what a great job. Highly recommend for photo albums.
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
Kaushik is charming and professional, instantly made us feel comfortable and relaxed and made the whole experience fun and enjoyable.
Serving Reading
Licensed rooms and public gardens in central Reading
Legally, the binding bit is over very quickly. Everything around it fills the day, and whichever room takes your signature largely determines whether that surrounding hour is worth photographing. Licensed rooms across this county run from small panelled ones with one window to broad, flat-lit ones with none. That gap is not decorative. On one side we work with what exists; on the other we construct the light ourselves.
Outdoor portraits in central Reading are portraits taken in public. Forbury Gardens and the abbey ruins adjoin each other, and on a warm Saturday both will hold people who were not invited. Accept that and it works: tighter framing, stonework as backdrop instead of the broad view, and a brisk pace. What fails is turning up assuming the place will be empty on the one afternoon you need it to be.
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Every kind of wedding
Traditional, modern, or somewhere between
A church and a hotel pose different photographic problems, not different styles. The first gives you stone, height, and exactly one place to stand at the rear. The second gives you access, low ceilings, and lighting we may be allowed to adjust. Neither building is harder to work in than the other; they are simply hard in opposite directions. Registrars differ too on what may happen once the ceremony has begun, so take that from the office holding your booking instead of assuming a friend's arrangement transfers to yours.
A schedule breaks in three predictable places: the speeches, then the receiving line, then whatever opens the dancing. A line for a long list eats much more time than gets budgeted, and it eats exactly the half hour in which the light would have been worth having. If yours will run long, portraits should happen first. Settle that at a planning meeting, not while a hundred guests stand waiting.
Why choose us
Experience that shows in Reading
Experience does not buy you better pictures of the easy parts. It buys a usable set from the difficult hour, when rain, a late registrar, a dark room and a compressed schedule all arrive together. We would sooner be judged on those than on the frames anyone with a decent camera would have managed.
Planning a wedding around Reading: useful places
If you are marrying in or near Reading, 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.
- The Roseate Reading occupies a restored Edwardian listed mansion built in 1911 overlooking Forbury Square, with an Eden Room for up to 60 wedding guests and evening receptions of up to 105 in its Reading Room restaurant. 1
- De Vere Wokefield Estate near Reading is set in 250 acres of parkland around a restored Victorian mansion, with its Terrace Suite licensed for ceremonies of 300 guests and the Lincoln Suite for up to 120. 2
- Reading Town Hall. The Victoria Hall, Waterhouse Chamber and Concert Hall at Reading Town Hall are on Reading Borough Council's list of approved premises for ceremonies. 3
- Thames Lido and Prospect Park Mansion House. Reading Borough Council's approved premises include Thames Lido on Napier Road (RG1 8FR) and The Mansion House in Prospect Park (RG30 2ND). 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Reading 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 Reading, frequently asked questions
Around two minutes per group once everyone is genuinely present, so ten groups comes to roughly twenty five minutes. Photography is never the bottleneck. Locating the cousin who wandered off towards the bar is.
We photograph in it. Rain supplies umbrellas, cover and wet stone bouncing light back up, and the results frequently beat the dry version. An indoor fallback is decided in the planning stage regardless.
A written running order, largest groups first so those people can go and enjoy themselves. Someone from each family does the calling, because relatives get answered when they shout a name and photographers do not.
Identify the last thing on your list that must be photographed, then count backwards from it. If that is your first dance, the day runs longer than instinct suggests. Once the arithmetic is done, a full day often comes to eight to ten hours.
Yes. Everything arrives at full resolution, without watermarks, and printing is yours to arrange. Reduced copies arrive alongside for phones and messaging, since the originals are too heavy to pass round a family.
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