Wedding Photographer in Southend-on-Sea

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Your wedding photographer in Southend-on-Sea, at a glance

Kaushik Bathia has photographed weddings across Essex for over twenty five years, and couples in Southend-on-Sea choose him for calm, natural coverage backed by more than a thousand weddings and five European Gold awards. Quiet shutters and no autofocus beeps mean we can work through readings and vows without the mechanical clatter that older cameras used to add to every silence. We cover every kind of wedding in Southend-on-Sea, from church, civil and register office ceremonies to country houses, barns, marquees, hotels and garden venues, as well as multicultural and fusion celebrations. The awards are nice to have, but the real reassurance is a thousand couples who let us photograph one of the most important days of their lives. Engagement shoots, a second photographer for busier days and beautiful fine art albums are all part of what we offer, and we travel throughout Essex and the rest of the UK for your wedding.

The longest pleasure pier in the world runs over 1.3 miles out into the Thames Estuary, and while it is the image everyone associates with Southend, it is also a long walk in wedding shoes, so it works far more often as a distant backdrop than as a location. Priory Park, with mature grounds and the historic Prittlewell Priory, is the practical alternative, sheltered and enclosed in a way the seafront never is. Roslin Beach Hotel, The Cliffs Pavilion, Park Inn Palace Southend and The Arlington Ballroom span everything from intimate to very large, and the coverage plan changes accordingly. Two separate rail routes serve the city, c2c from Southend Central to London Fenchurch Street and Greater Anglia from Southend Victoria, so guests from Rochford, Rayleigh and Thorpe Bay arrive at different stations and arrival coverage is split to match.