Wedding Photographer in Wellingborough
Warm, unobtrusive wedding photography for couples in Wellingborough, whether you are marrying in a barn, a hotel or a marquee, with twenty-five years of experience and hand-finished albums.
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Wedding photography from £750
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Your wedding photographer in Wellingborough, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia is a Northwood-based wedding photographer with more than 25 years behind him and fellowships of the BIPP and the MPA, and he travels to Wellingborough and across North Northamptonshire. At a venue such as Wellingborough Golf Club, based at the 18th-century Harrowden Hall with its Vaux Room and linked Secret Garden, we would work in short bursts and think between them, so the gallery has shape rather than near-identical frames. Wellingborough Registration Office, at the library on Pebble Lane, has two small rooms licensed for four people each, while larger register office ceremonies move to the Old Mayors Parlour at Kettering, for 42, or the ceremony room in The Corby Cube, for 100. Having run the studio since 2001, we plan the drive up from Northwood with time in hand, so we are ready before the first guests arrive. A second photographer, an engagement shoot and hand finished albums can be added to wedding photography from £750. For this part of Northamptonshire travel and any overnight stay from Northwood are quoted in writing before you book.
Sixty five miles from London St Pancras on the Midland Main Line, this Northamptonshire market town is close enough for guests to travel up on the morning itself, which shifts the whole timeline later than a purely local wedding would run. Croyland Abbey, the Jacobean building in the part of town still known as Croyland, gives the day a piece of genuine period architecture, and Swanspool Gardens, an ornamental park near the town centre, is the practical choice for family groups. The Stanwick Hotel and Grendon Lakes sit outside the centre, with water and open ground that reward a later portrait session. A diverse community and a heritage of the boot and shoe trade give the town its character, and the A45 keeps Finedon, Wollaston and Higham Ferrers within a few minutes.
Superb and highly professional wedding photographer. We had the pleasure of working with Kaushik Bathia Photography for a recent wedding at Orchardleigh Estate.
Kaushik was exceptional at creating our wedding photo album! He designed it so beautifully and his customer service was the best. The album quality and design is amazing, we loved it! Wow what a great job. Highly recommend for photo albums.
Kaushik is amazing to work with. He is friendly, patient and professional. He has a great eye for detail and goes the extra mile to make sure everything is perfect. The quality of his work is excellent and you can tell he really cares about what he does. Highly recommend!
Serving Wellingborough
Register office, hotel or golf club: planning a Wellingborough ceremony
Two registrars will run the same room differently. One permits a lens close to the front through the declarations; the next wants the shutter well back, and couples usually learn which applies on the day. We put that question earlier, and hold a fallback plan for the ceremony, so either answer works without a whispered negotiation at the door. Coverage of the legal part is therefore planned twice and used once.
Wellingborough offers two very different shapes. A ceremony out of town keeps ceremony room and portrait ground on a single site, taking travel out of the schedule entirely. Marrying in the town centre means a move, and a move costs you a gathering, a drive, then a second gathering of the same people. Neither shape is wrong. They want different running orders, and the choice is easier made before invitations are printed.
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Every kind of wedding
Two-day festivities? Here is how we would plan them
Two days is not two weddings and should not be covered like a pair of them. A Friday evening gathering and a Saturday ceremony belong to one story, so the second day is shot in the knowledge of what the first already produced and deliberately avoids repeating it. Anybody well covered on Friday is left alone on Saturday unless something new surrounds them. Clothes change between the two days, and a finished gallery must read as continuity, not as a change of cast.
Group lists are where two-day weddings come apart. Write one list rather than two, and mark against every line which day it belongs to. A dozen groups is manageable and twice that is not; the difference is roughly half an hour spent on a lawn while somebody fetches an uncle. A short list run properly beats a long one run badly. The evening carries the same difficulty twice over, once at the speeches and once when a first dance starts, because neither can be relit and neither waits.
Why choose us
Calm hands when a Wellingborough day changes shape
Surprises are rare at this end of the job, and that is what a seasoned photographer is for. Weather turns, a registrar overruns, rings go astray. The useful response is somebody who reorders the afternoon quietly, without announcing to a hall of waiting guests that the plan has failed.
Wedding-day places in and around Wellingborough
Wedding plans usually start with where the ceremony and reception will be. The places below, in and around Wellingborough, 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.
- Grendon Hall at 67 Main Road, Grendon (NN7 1JW), is on North Northamptonshire's approved venue list with its Garden Room licensed for 70. 1
- Croyland Abbey. Wellingborough's medieval monastic grange, now the Jacobean Croyland Abbey, was an offshoot of Crowland Abbey near Peterborough, and that part of the town is still known as Croyland. 2
- Harrowden Hall licensed rooms. The council's approved venue list licenses Wellingborough Golf Club at Harrowden Hall, Great Harrowden (NN9 5AD), with the Vaux Room for 100, the Leather Room for 60 and a linked Secret Garden. 3
- Grendon Lakes on Main Road, Grendon (NN7 1JW), overlooks a water-ski lake and has a function suite licensed for civil ceremonies plus a marquee. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Wellingborough 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 Wellingborough, frequently asked questions
We do. The layout follows from the edit, so a sequence gets decided while the gallery is built rather than bolted on later. You see a proof, mark whatever wants moving, and nothing reaches print until that version is agreed.
By private link, and every full-size file on it can be downloaded and kept. There is no viewing appointment to attend and no countdown running on the link, so the selection can take as long as you need.
Yes, and it is what actually takes your day off our calendar. An informal hold means declining other enquiries on goodwill alone, which serves nobody. Whatever remains outstanding is settled in the weeks before the wedding.
Once your venue is fixed, not before. The summer Saturdays go before anything else, so a Wellingborough wedding on one of those wants roughly a year. Later enquiries are frequently fine; what shrinks is the choice of date left.
Hours of coverage, the edit, and the files. Albums, additional hours and an extra photographer are priced separately and added only when asked for. Quoting against your actual running order beats fitting you into a numbered tier.
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