Wedding Photographer in Weybridge
Wedding photography with a natural feel across Weybridge, whether the day is a quiet register office booking or a large family affair, with engagement shoots, timeline help and a second photographer on hand.
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Wedding photography from £750
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The short answer
Your wedding photographer in Weybridge, at a glance
Kaushik Bathia is an award winning wedding photographer based in London, with over twenty five years and more than a thousand celebrations behind him, and travels to Weybridge and throughout Surrey. For portraits we usually put the sun behind you and expose for your faces; beside the Wey Navigation, which joins the Thames at Thames Lock in Weybridge, that keeps the water bright and your skin soft. In Weybridge that might be a ceremony at Rylston, the register office on Oatlands Drive with two ceremony rooms, a larger day at Oatlands Park Hotel or Brooklands Hotel, or a celebration on D'Oyly Carte Island, a two-acre private island in the Thames reached by a private footbridge from mainland parking. With 25+ years behind us, we keep every message clear and prompt from your first enquiry, because feeling looked after matters as much as the pictures. Engagement shoots, a second photographer and fine art albums can all be added to your day. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Where the River Wey meets the River Thames the towpaths give this affluent Surrey town a portrait location that stays green and quiet even when the venue is busy. Brooklands Museum, on the site of the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit, and Mercedes-Benz World give a couple something with real character behind them, which suits documentary treatment more than formal posing. The Hand and Spear, Brooklands Hotel and Oatlands Park Hotel between them cover a relaxed gathering and a full formal reception with grounds. Weybridge railway station is on the South West Main Line with trains to London Waterloo, so guests can travel down in the morning and back the same night, which tends to push evening coverage later. Oatlands, Hersham and New Haw are close.
Thank you for capturing our special day so well and creating beautiful photos that we will treasure forever. We love our stunning wedding album! You took the time to get to know us from the pre-shoot right up until the wedding day and made us feel comfortable and relaxed, and we had a lot of fun along the way especially with your silly little jokes to get us to laugh!
I hired Kaushik for our wedding and I’m extremely glad I did!! Kaushik took amazing pictures and the quality of the pictures were amazing. Kaushik was very patient and was very helpful since the start. My family including our guest were constantly asking me who the photographer was as he gave the best service.
A brilliant photographer who also provides a great service - a true professional! Highly recommended for sure...
Serving Weybridge
Photographing your wedding in Weybridge
A room gets licensed for legal reasons, never for its windows. Frequently it is the tightest space a building owns, and it will be full, so the aisle you pictured yourself photographing from does not exist once the chairs go in. We look at that room ahead of everything else and plan around what the space physically allows rather than what a floor plan implies.
Venues around Weybridge run from a pub function room up to a hotel set in grounds, and the difference shows most clearly in the rain. Covered outdoor space keeps a group photograph on schedule; without any, forty people queue along a corridor while the light goes. Put the wet-weather question to a venue before signing anything. Weybridge holds both ends of that range: Mercedes-Benz World, Brooklands Hotel, The Hand and Spear, Oatlands Park Hotel.
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Every kind of wedding
Civil, religious and same-sex weddings, from Rylston onwards
Terms for a civil ceremony come from the registrar, and they do not bend on the morning: where anybody may stand, whether recording is permitted, when the room must be empty for the next booking. Put those questions at the rehearsal. The ceremony frequently runs shorter than the queue to get into it, so a camera is loaded and placed well before anybody walks in. Nothing about that particular hour offers a second take.
Two brides entering together, or two grooms, undoes every convention a photographer was trained on, and the freedom in that is the point: no reserved side, no fixed direction anyone must face. We plan those by asking questions instead of assuming answers. A church imposes limits of its own, generally about distance and about noise, and whoever takes the service settles them well before we arrive, in a conversation better had early than in a porch.
Why choose us
Planning a Weybridge wedding with us
Nothing on the day should surprise anybody. An order of events is agreed in writing, the group list is closed weeks beforehand, and no one gets chased across a lawn at seven in the evening. Reliability makes dull advertising and it is what couples actually want.
Around Weybridge: venues, open spaces and landmarks
A photographer's plan for a Weybridge wedding would take account of the ceremony venue, the reception and any space for portraits between them. These notes, taken from published sources, describe a few local options.
- Weybridge station, opened in 1838 and managed by South Western Railway, is on the South West Main Line, where the Chertsey branch to Virginia Water diverges, with trains to London Waterloo via Surbiton or via Staines. 1
- Oatlands Palace. Henry VIII built Oatlands Palace to the north of Weybridge town centre in the 1530s. 2
- Oatlands Park Hotel grounds. Oatlands Park Hotel at 146 Oatlands Drive offers traditional, exclusive-use and dry-hire weddings, with 12 function suites set in 10-acre grounds. 3
- Brooklands Museum in Weybridge stands on the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit and displays racing cars, motorcycles and historic aircraft including Concorde. 4
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Coverage and booking
What your wedding photography in Weybridge 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 Weybridge, frequently asked questions
Usually yes, and the bigger gain is practical rather than emotional. A session held months earlier tells you whether working with us is enjoyable, which beats judging any portfolio, and it happens while changing your mind still costs nothing.
Yes. Florists, planners and bands all want the same narrow window, so a shared timeline settles it rather than goodwill on the morning. Circulate ours to everyone and the disagreements happen by email in March.
Choose the date, read the agreement, sign, then pay the retainer. Only that final step reserves anything, so a verbal yes leaves the date open to whoever emails next. Whatever is left becomes due ahead of the day, with a reminder.
Plan the hours from the first dance backwards, not from breakfast forwards. A typical plan runs from the final hour of getting ready until roughly thirty minutes after the floor fills, which usually adds up to nine hours or so.
Ask any shortlisted photographer for the full set from one recent wedding. Highlights tell you nothing, because twenty good frames sit within reach of almost anyone. The hundreds in between separate an honest record from a handful of posters.
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