Wedding Photographer in Rugby
Natural wedding photography that stays out of the way in Rugby, covering the service, the family groups and the party that follows, so you can enjoy the day rather than manage the camera.
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Wedding photography from £750
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Your wedding photographer in Rugby, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia is an award winning wedding photographer based in London, with over twenty five years and more than a thousand celebrations behind him, and travels to Rugby and throughout Warwickshire. We let your day unfold and step in only when a group needs order, and for portraits away from the venue we would suggest Caldecott Park, the town-centre park by the Town Hall known for its award-winning floral displays. In Rugby that could mean a register ceremony in the Bloxam Room, the former council chamber in the town centre, a licensed outdoor ceremony at Brownsover Hall, a civil ceremony with Draycote Water as the backdrop at Draycote Hotel, or a church service, and whatever your traditions we photograph the whole day as it happens. Kaushik Bathia's fellowships of the BIPP and the MPA were awarded on submitted panels of work rather than years served, a fair test for a Rugby couple comparing photographers. Albums, a second photographer and an engagement shoot are all available; we travel from Northwood, and travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book.
Rugby School, where legend says the game of rugby football began in 1823, is the landmark every visitor recognises and the reason this Warwickshire market town's name travels further than its size suggests. For a wedding, the practical centre is elsewhere: Caldecott Park is a landscaped Victorian park in the middle of town, close enough that a portrait trip costs ten minutes each way, which is often the difference between doing it and skipping it. Rugby station is on the West Coast Main Line with services towards London Euston and Birmingham, and the M6, M1 and M45 all pass close, so guests from Bilton, Dunchurch and Long Lawford arrive easily.
A superb and highly professional wedding photographer. Throughout the registry and wedding ceremonies Kaushik Bathia took beautiful photographs ensuring he captured all the special moments. His friendly personality put everyone at ease and his unique ideas resulted in some wonderful family pictures which we will treasure forever.
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
This photographer consistently demonstrates a keen eye for detail, producing work that stands out for its quality and precision. Their commitment to the craft is evident in the thoughtfulness of each captured moment. Thank you!
Serving Rugby
Photographing your wedding in Rugby
A wedding is a small legal event wrapped in a large social one. The registrar's part is over quickly, and virtually everything worth photographing sits either before it or long after. Spend your coverage accordingly. Two frames and a look will cover the signing, while the run-up and the long afternoon behind it hold the day proper, and that is where booked hours ought to sit.
Your licensed room comes from whatever the building already has, so its capacity limits the guest list and its windows fix the light at your allotted hour. Nothing in the bag changes either fact. Which room, and at what time: settle that question first. Practice varies between registrars over what freedom of movement a photographer is given once proceedings begin, so ask yours directly, then tell us what was said. We work inside that and never argue it in front of guests.
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Every kind of wedding
Church, licensed room or marquee near Rugby
Three buildings, three separate problems. A church is dark at floor level and bright at the windows, so the exposure belongs to the faces and the glass is left to burn out. A licensed room is small, usually lit from one wall, and any mirror in it will find a camera unless somebody has looked first. A marquee acts as one huge diffuser while sun is on the canvas, then turns into a black tent hung with fairy lights, and the second half needs a plan unrelated to the first.
Time vanishes into the group photographs. Draw the list up in advance and cut it back further than you want to, because every extra line on it costs daylight. One person per family, standing beside us and pointing, moves the whole business along faster than any list read aloud. Speeches are the other trap. A top table with windows behind it turns every speaker into a silhouette, so either we move round it or we lift the faces artificially, and both of those want deciding before guests sit down.
Why choose us
Slack in the plan for a late Rugby day
Days run late. Ours is the calmest job in the building when they do, because the running order we hold has slack marked in it and a list of what can be shortened without anyone noticing. Anything dropped is mentioned to you on the spot, not discovered later in the edit.
Wedding-day places in and around Rugby
Wedding plans usually start with where the ceremony and reception will be. The places below, in and around Rugby, are described from published pages, with a link to each source. We travel from Northwood; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book.
- Rugby School is on Warwickshire County Council's directory of venues licensed for legal marriages and civil partnerships. 1
- Oxford Canal and Hillmorton Locks. The Oxford Canal, opened in 1790, loops around Rugby through Newbold, Brownsover and Hillmorton, where the flight of locks is the busiest on the national canal network. 2
- Caldecott Park in the heart of Rugby town centre, next to the Town Hall, is known for award-winning floral displays and has play areas, a multi-use sports area and a café. 3
- Rugby School and rugby football. Rugby School was founded in 1567 with money left by Lawrence Sheriff, and legend credits pupil William Webb Ellis with inventing rugby football in 1823; three pupils wrote the first rules of the game in 1845. 4
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What your wedding photography in Rugby 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 Rugby, frequently asked questions
Yes. Fast glass to begin with, then a lamp on a stand pointed at a ceiling or into a corner instead of at you, which leaves the room looking like the room. Flat grey afternoons are kinder than glaring ones.
It does, for most people. An unimportant hour under a lens settles what we will ask for and what we never will, so the wedding day is not where any of that gets learned.
Yes. Flights and accommodation go on top of the booking, and the work itself is unchanged. Raise it at the outset, since a date abroad has to be blocked out further ahead than one nearby.
Nobody can put one number on that without knowing your hours. Length of coverage, album or no album, the number of buildings the day uses and the distance we cover to reach you all count. A short call settles it.
Usually an agreed run of hours across the day, every edited frame from those hours delivered digitally, and an album on request. Nothing else is bundled in by default, which keeps you from carrying the cost of extras you would never open.
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Wedding venues near Rugby
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