Wedding Photographer Watford | From £750, Rated 4.8/5

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Your wedding photographer in Watford, at a glance

Kaushik Bathia is an award winning wedding photographer based in London, photographing weddings in Watford and throughout Hertfordshire for over twenty five years and more than a thousand celebrations. Because we work by observing rather than instructing, the day stays yours from beginning to end, and the pictures simply remember it as it was. From intimate register office ceremonies to grand country house weddings, and from village churches to garden and marquee celebrations, we photograph every kind of wedding in and around Watford. Long experience means we handle groups and speeches smoothly, keeping things moving so the schedule holds and your guests stay relaxed. You can add an engagement shoot, a second photographer and hand finished albums, and we are glad to travel across Hertfordshire and beyond, so wherever your day is held it is well within reach.

Cassiobury Park, with the River Gade and the canal running through it, is why so many weddings here keep the portrait session outdoors: it is large, varied and close to the centre, so a twenty minute walk produces water, trees and open lawn without any transfer. The Grove has grounds of its own, while The Langley Banqueting Suites and Hilton Watford need a planned run for outdoor frames. Vicarage Road, home of Watford Football Club, and the Warner Bros. Studio Tour at nearby Leavesden give this lively Hertfordshire town its landmarks, and its large shopping centre keeps the streets busy for documentary work. Watford Junction on the West Coast Main Line and Watford station on the Metropolitan line bring guests in from two directions, with Croxley Green, Rickmansworth and Abbots Langley close by.

Serving Watford

Your wedding photographer in Watford

Civil ceremonies are short, often over before the back rows have settled. The room is licensed, so it cannot be swapped for a prettier one, and it is frequently the plainest space in the building: low ceiling, patterned carpet, a table with two chairs. That is not something to solve on the morning. It is a room worth seeing beforehand, so the window's position is already known.

Registrars set rules of their own, and those rules vary from one to the next. Some are content for a photographer to move during vows; others want a single position held throughout. We ask yours before the doors open. Ten minutes of our attention goes on the licensed room, and everything else goes on the hours around it, which is where a wedding begins to look like itself. Find out which sort of registrar you have as soon as the room is booked.

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What we offer

What is included in your Watford wedding coverage

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Travel Anywhere

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Wall Art

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Print & Wall Art

Every kind of wedding

Same-sex, civil and religious weddings all photographed with care

Same-sex weddings get photographed exactly as any other wedding does, which mostly means asking who walks with whom instead of assuming it, and handing neither of you a role you never asked for. A church or another place of worship comes with constraints set by whoever runs the building, and no two are identical. We find out what applies to yours and stay inside it rather than testing the edges.

Group photographs run on paperwork more than talent. Send the list a fortnight out, hold it to a dozen combinations, and name one loud relative per side to round people up. Handled that way the groups take twenty minutes rather than swallowing the drinks reception. A receiving line is worth ten of them and costs nothing, because everyone passes you once, in order. Speeches want a position behind the top table, where reacting faces earn more than the person talking.

Wedding traditions photographed in Watford

Why choose us

Steady hands when the Watford day runs behind

Days run behind. Hair takes longer, the coach meets traffic, a room is not turned around on time. What matters then is what gets dropped, and portraits are cheaper to lose than the group list or the speeches. We say aloud what is being cut, and we carry on shooting while you decide.

Good to know

Wedding photography in Watford, frequently asked questions

What happens if the day runs late and we need you to stay longer?+

We can usually stay, and additional hours are agreed on the night at the rate already in your contract rather than invented under pressure. If staying is impossible, you knew that before the day, because we tell you what else is booked.

Do you offer engagement or pre-wedding shoots?+

Yes, and there is a practical argument for it: sixty minutes under a lens beforehand strips most self-consciousness out of the wedding day. It also teaches us how you two stand together, which removes a lot of directing later on.

How many photos will we receive from our Watford wedding?+

That follows the hours booked and how much happens inside them. An expected minimum is agreed before you sign, then every frame worth keeping from your Watford wedding is delivered edited, with blinks and duplicates already removed.

Do you stay for the evening reception and first dance?+

Yes, where the hours are booked for it. Most couples want the first dance more than anything else that evening, so we light it ourselves rather than trusting whatever colour the DJ throws, and we stay until the floor fills.

How much does a wedding photographer in Watford cost?+

It depends on hours, how many of us come and how far we travel, so every Watford wedding is quoted individually rather than picked off a list. Send your date, your venue and the hours you think you need.