Wedding Photographer in Windsor

Relaxed, natural wedding photography across Windsor, for couples marrying in a church, a manor or a marquee, with careful editing and heirloom albums to follow.

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Your wedding photographer in Windsor, at a glance

Kaushik Bathia is an award winning wedding photographer based in London, photographing weddings in Windsor and throughout Berkshire for over twenty five years and more than a thousand celebrations. Backlight is our default for portraits, placing the sun behind you and exposing for your faces, which keeps skin soft and stops anyone squinting through an entire session. Whatever your wedding looks like in Windsor, 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. Award-winning work counts for nothing if the second half of the day is thin, so we pace our attention deliberately and never spend the whole afternoon on portraits. You can add an engagement shoot, a second photographer and hand finished albums, and we are glad to travel across Berkshire and beyond, so wherever your day is held it is well within reach.

Royal architecture sets the tone here, and Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world, is visible from enough of the town that it can be worked into portraits without ever going inside it. The Long Walk and Windsor Great Park give the classic wide frame, with an avenue that suits backlight in the last hour of the day. The Castle Hotel Windsor sits centrally, while Oakley Court, Monkey Island Estate and Royal Windsor Racecourse each need a short transfer and reward an earlier start to the portrait session. Two stations serve the town, Windsor and Eton Riverside with direct trains from London Waterloo and Windsor and Eton Central linking to Slough on the Great Western line, so guests arrive from two directions. Eton, Datchet and Old Windsor are minutes away.

Serving Windsor

Where your Windsor wedding story begins

Most of what we decide on a Windsor wedding gets decided for us by whichever room you have licensed for the vows. Rooms like that were built for something else first, so the windows sit where a builder left them and they will not move for us. Viewings tend to be offered mid-morning; the hour that matters is the one your vows are booked into. See it then and the answer is plain, because some chairs face the light and others have their backs to it.

That one question tells you more than a venue tour will. Windsor offers hotels, a country house, a racecourse and rooms that open onto grounds, and each type sets its own problem: how far guests walk between the vows and the meal, whether there is anywhere indoors to stand out a shower, how much ceiling sits above the top table. The named choices here are The Castle Hotel Windsor, Oakley Court, Royal Windsor Racecourse, Monkey Island Estate.

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What we offer

What is included in your Windsor wedding coverage

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Every kind of wedding

Church, register office or marquee, we cover it all

A registrar arrives on the register office's clock rather than on yours. The legally binding part can be over in fifteen minutes, and within it there are perhaps six frames anyone will look at again: the walk in, the vows, the rings, the signing, the look up afterwards, the walk out. Ask what your registrar expects of a photographer well before the day. Answers differ from one office to the next, and it fixes our position long before we take it.

A church sets you under stone and coloured glass, which tint everything and will not be argued with. A marquee behaves the opposite way. Daylight makes it a lightbox; darkness makes it a black tent, and the changeover hour is the one to spend outdoors. Later, the speeches and then the dancing happen under lighting somebody chose for dinner service. Our own lights go up there, low enough that nobody in the room looks up at them.

Wedding traditions photographed in Windsor

Why choose us

Why the hours we have logged matter on your day

Experience mostly buys speed. Knowing without stopping to think where a receiving line will bunch, or that a west-facing room has twenty usable minutes left in it, means we ask less of your day than we otherwise would. You get more of your own wedding back, and the pictures still get made.

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Wedding photography in Windsor, frequently asked questions

We would rather not have too many posed photos; is that alright?+

Yes, and it usually improves the day. We can work an entire wedding on observation alone, apart from the family groups you actually want prints of. Tell us that shortlist and we will keep the interruptions to it.

Would an engagement shoot help us relax?+

It helps most if the dread is about being photographed rather than about the wedding. A practice evening gives you our voices, our working distance and our usual requests, so nothing about us is unfamiliar by the morning.

Do you offer engagement or pre-wedding shoots?+

We do. Windsor couples usually want the Great Park or the Long Walk in the frame, so pick a date when the trees are doing something and give us longer than an hour; the walking is most of it.

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

We keep our distance, so that you stop tracking where we are. Close range is what makes people stiffen. Across a Windsor ceremony and the toasts we work long, and only close in for the groups you asked for.

How much time should we allow for photography?+

The couple need less time than people assume and the relatives need more. Twenty minutes on your own together will cover it. Ten group shots eats a half hour, and finding people is where it goes.