Wedding Photographer in Solihull
Relaxed, natural wedding photography across Solihull, whether you host at home, in a hotel, or under canvas in a field, and a gentle, unposed way of working throughout.
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Your wedding photographer in Solihull, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia established the studio in 2001, and wedding photography for a Solihull day starts from £750. Two cameras hang on us all day, one with a wide lens for the room and one with a long lens for faces, so we can switch registers without ever stepping into the aisle. Solihull Register Office on Homer Road, a short walk from the town centre, has a Ceremony Suite for up to 58 guests and a front garden used for photographs, while the council's approved venues include Hampton Manor, Nailcote Hall Hotel, The Lake at Barston and the National Motorcycle Museum. Storing images properly matters as much as taking them. On the evening of the wedding the files are copied to more than one place, well before album pages are chosen. An engagement shoot by St Alphege, the Grade I listed red sandstone church at the head of the High Street, can be added, along with a second photographer for busier days and fine art albums.
Two parks running into one another are more useful than one large one, and Malvern Park and the adjoining Brueton Park beside the River Blythe give this town formal ground, open grass and a river edge without any need to move cars between them. The medieval St Alphege Church anchors the historic High Street and offers a very different, older frame a short distance away. Nuthurst Grange, The Limes Country Lodge Hotel and Castle Bromwich Hall Hotel each hold their own grounds, so the portrait plan usually follows the building rather than the map, and the timing is set by which side of the house the sun is on late in the afternoon. Solihull station sits on the Chiltern line to London Marylebone with the M42 running past, so guests from Olton, Hall Green and Balsall Common arrive quickly and groups can be called on time.
…Kaushik has an incredible eye for detail and an exceptional talent for capturing those fleeting, candid moments that made our wedding so unique. The photos are absolutely stunning—full of emotion, vibrancy, and creativity. He didn’t just take photographs; he told the story of our wedding day in the most heartfelt and artistic way possible.
I came in the shop very late to closing time and kaushik welcomed me in and met all of my photography needs.Much recommended ..Professional service will be returning :)
…Kaushik's work is fantastic and he took so much stress out of our special day. He and his team are highly professional, fun and friendly and work with you to capture the shots that you want. He captured some amazing moments of both us and our guests, some natural, some posed but all truly wonderful. We were blown away by our albums and videos and have no hesitation in recommending him to our family and friends.
Serving Solihull
How a Solihull wedding day tends to run
Licensing sits with an individual room, not with the whole building, so what a viewing showed you and what you stand in on the day can differ. Worth establishing in writing: which room holds it, what becomes of that arrangement if the guest count grows, and where everything goes if it rains. All three are email questions, and all three alter what the photographs can be.
After that, a Solihull wedding runs much as it does anywhere: preparation that overruns, a brief ceremony, then two hours of drinks and group shots before dinner. We plan tightly around the brief part and stay loose across the rest, since the rest is where the frames nobody requested come from. St Alphege Church and the old High Street will give you a town centre frame if you want one, but that means putting people into cars, and cars swallow far more afternoon than couples expect.
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Every kind of wedding
Registrars, groups and customs
The one thing nobody can plan for you is which registrar turns up. Preferences vary, from wanting a photographer static at the rear to allowing movement while ruling out any picture during the spoken vows. That answer surfaces on the morning, which is why the ceremony coverage is built as two options and chosen between after a short conversation, rather than discovered halfway down the aisle. Inside a church it inverts: the constraint gets stated, it does not shift, and you can plan against it a year out.
Group photographs are a scheduling problem wearing creative clothes. Each extra grouping buys another round of rounding people up, and the rounding up is the costly bit, never the frame itself. Keep the list to combinations that would genuinely be missed and put someone loud in charge of fetching them. As for a custom we do not recognise, say what it is and roughly when it happens, and we will have chased the answer well before your wedding morning.
Why choose us
Experience that shows in Solihull
What experience buys is fewer surprises rather than better equipment. Rain has a plan. A ceremony that starts late has a plan. A room with one small window has a plan. None of that impresses anybody in isolation, but taken together it separates a calm wedding day from a fraught one.
A local guide for couples marrying in Solihull
Here are some places in and around Solihull that a wedding day could involve, from ceremony rooms to open spaces for portraits. Details come from the linked sources and can change, so check them before you book. We travel from Northwood; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book.
- The Limes Country Lodge Hotel on Forshaw Heath Lane, Earlswood (B94 5JZ), set in six acres of countryside a few minutes from the M42, hosts weddings and events. 1
- Tudor Grange Park on Monkspath Hall Road (B91 3LU), less than half a mile from Solihull station, is a Green Flag park with a lake and stream, a skate park and a 1 km figure-of-eight cycle track, on land that once belonged to the Bird's Custard family. 2
- Castle Bromwich Hall Hotel on Chester Road (B36 9DE) is a Grade I listed Jacobean manor with 76 bedrooms and restored formal gardens that hosts weddings, including Asian weddings, and holds a Solihull ceremony licence. 3
- Hogarths Solihull. Hogarths hotel on Four Ashes Road, Dorridge (B93 8QE) takes wedding bookings and is on Solihull Council's approved ceremony venue list as Hogarths Hotel. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Solihull 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 Solihull, frequently asked questions
Not much, honestly. A prize means a panel admired a single frame. A whole wedding shown start to finish, from a day built like yours, tells you far more, because it demonstrates consistency across ten hours instead of one lucky minute.
Then we work indoors, near windows, and the groups shift to whatever sheltered space exists. Decide the wet plan at the booking stage instead of over breakfast, because the usable indoor corners get claimed early by other things.
Yes, we travel to Solihull; travel and any overnight stay are quoted in writing before you book. Send postcodes for the buildings in use and the arrival times stop being your concern; nobody should be scheduling their photographer's morning on top of everything else.
Yes. With an address and a room name, where the sun falls at your ceremony hour can be worked out on paper, and that answers much of what walking round would show. Where visiting first is practical, we do.
Some by name, none by pretence. What counts is the one room you have booked, and that gets researched specifically: its orientation, what the ceiling is doing, where the doors are. Anyone claiming to know them all is guessing.
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