Wedding Photographer in Wakefield

A calm, friendly wedding photographer for weddings in Wakefield, for church, civil and fusion celebrations of every kind, and albums you will hand down for years to come.

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Your wedding photographer in Wakefield, at a glance

For couples marrying in Wakefield, Kaushik Bathia offers award winning wedding photography, with more than twenty five years of experience and over a thousand weddings behind the camera. Most of the day we work quietly from the edges, watching for the small moments between the big ones and letting them unfold without any nudging from us. Whatever your wedding looks like in Wakefield, a church service, a register office, a country house, a barn or a hotel, and whatever your traditions, we photograph the whole day as it happens. Knowing how long things really take is a service in itself. Fifteen minutes for couple portraits is realistic; forty is a fiction that costs you drinks with your guests. You can add an engagement shoot, a second photographer and hand finished albums, and we are glad to travel across West Yorkshire and beyond, so wherever your day is held it is well within reach.

Yorkshire's tallest spire belongs to Wakefield Cathedral, and it changes how a ceremony is photographed, since the height pulls the eye upward and wide frames from the back of the nave do more work than tight ones. Thornes Park, the city's main open space, has a circular parkland path that suits a walking portrait sequence rather than a static set of poses. Wentbridge House Hotel and Waterton Park Hotel both sit outside the centre, so the run from cathedral to reception needs realistic timing. Wakefield Westgate is on the East Coast Main Line and Wakefield Kirkgate also serves the city, with the M1 close by, so guests travel in from a wide area on the day itself. This cathedral city, known for the Hepworth Wakefield gallery and its rhubarb growing heritage, extends to Sandal, Normanton and Pontefract.

Serving Wakefield

Wedding photographs made in Wakefield

Timings slip, which is the one safe prediction about any wedding. First to go is the half hour set aside for pictures of you both, since no other item on the schedule is waiting on it. Defend that half hour in writing while the plan is being drawn, or accept portraits made after dark beside the cars. No other stretch belongs so completely to the two people getting married.

Rooms are booked for the licence and the seating plan; their windows come as an afterthought. That is fine so long as somebody checks which direction the ceremony faces, what stands behind the signing table, and whether a blind or a lamp can be altered. Ask before the room is settled. One bad wall behind a couple is a problem no lens solves, and nobody is obliged to warn you about it.

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What we offer

What is included in your Wakefield wedding coverage

Multi-Day Coverage

Every Tradition

Second Photographer

Every kind of wedding

Traditions we know and traditions we learn

The same twenty minutes can be run two very different ways by two registrars, and the variable is how far forward a camera is permitted while vows are spoken. There is no knowing in advance, so raise the point at your notice appointment, then pass on what you were told. We plan for the tightest restriction going, and anything looser is a bonus. Churches differ among themselves too, and the same question suits whoever holds the keys.

A group list works when it names people rather than roles. One vague heading produces a two-minute argument in front of thirty guests; written names, read out by somebody audible at forty paces, produce the same photographs in half the time. Keep the list short. Twelve groups make a plan. Twenty-five make a queue, and nobody has ever liked a photograph of themselves waiting in one. Trim it with the guest list open, not on the day.

Wedding traditions photographed in Wakefield

Why choose us

Reputation built one Wakefield wedding at a time

Reputation in this trade is mostly word of mouth from people who were guests first. Building anything that way is slow, and slowness makes you careful: about being early, about answering emails, about not treating the tenth wedding of a season differently from the first. We would rather be recommended than found.

Good to know

Wedding photography in Wakefield, frequently asked questions

Is travel charged as an extra?+

Anywhere in West Yorkshire is included. Beyond the county it gets agreed and written into the booking, so the final bill holds no surprises. Learning about an extra after the wedding is nobody's idea of service.

We feel nervous about the camera. How do you help in Wakefield?+

Almost everyone says this, and almost everyone has stopped noticing us by mid-morning. Starting during the getting-ready hour helps: the room is busy, attention is elsewhere entirely, and once the day turns serious we have become just another person standing about.

Do you provide high-resolution digital images?+

Yes, in full size, edited, and yours to print, share or pass to a relative. No tier exists in which the better files are held back. What we shot is what arrives, at the size we shot it.

How do you edit and retouch photos for Wakefield weddings?+

The room gets corrected to how it actually looked, then the rest is left mostly alone. Spots and stray hairs go, lines and features stay. Ask for one specific thing to be taken out and it will be, though people are not removed.

Should we choose a photographer on style or on price alone?+

Style, then temperament. A rate tells you what a day costs and nothing whatever about how it looks a decade later. Ask for whole weddings to look through, not a reel of favourites, since ten good frames prove very little.