Wedding Photographer in West London

The short answer

Do you photograph weddings in West London?

Yes. Kaushik Bathia photographs weddings throughout West London, from Ealing's register office room at The Brentham Club and Brent Civic Centre in Wembley to Feltham Lodge, Chelsea Old Town Hall and licensed venues in between. The area runs from Northolt, 4.2 miles from Northwood, to Kensington and Chelsea at 11.3 miles. Coverage starts from £750, and the travel from Northwood appears in your written quote before you book.

The edges of the area

Chelsea, Uxbridge and Hendon for couples at the edges

At the river end of the area, Chelsea Old Town Hall on King's Road is a licensed ceremony venue in Kensington and Chelsea, with a Small Hall seating up to 138 guests and a Main Hall seating up to 338. That is a different scale from the 30-guest rooms in Ealing and Feltham, and it lets a large family sit together for the vows. The borough is 11.3 miles from Northwood, the furthest point covered on this page.

Near the airport, Hillingdon Council's own ceremony rooms are at the Civic Centre in Uxbridge, with the Nova Room for up to 20 guests and the Astra Suite for up to 80, plus the Great Barn at Manor Farm in Ruislip, which takes up to 150 for the ceremony and 200 for the reception. Couples on the Cricklewood side, which is split between Brent and Barnet along the Edgware Road, may find Barnet's register office the easier choice: it moved from Burnt Oak to Hendon Town Hall in February 2017.

Portraits

Where to take portraits between the ceremony and the meal

West London is short of open countryside but rich in parks with history. Walpole Park in Ealing has a Serpentine Lake, a fishpond with fountains and Regency-planted beds laid out for Sir John Soane, with Pitzhanger Manor at its edge. Gunnersbury Park, on the Ealing and Hounslow border, has 72 hectares of Grade II* listed parkland with formal gardens and lakes. Osterley Park, run by the National Trust, has a house remodelled by Robert Adam between 1761 and 1765.

By the Thames, Strand-on-the-Green is a conservation area of 18th- and 19th-century listed houses just downriver from Kew Bridge, and Chiswick Mall is a row of mainly Georgian and Victorian houses with their gardens across the road on the riverbank. Chiswick Mall partly floods at high spring tides, so check the tide table before planning a riverside walk there. North of the A40, Gladstone Park in Dollis Hill has views across London from the top of its hill.

A short stop on the route between ceremony and reception is usually enough. Twenty minutes in a park that is already on your way gives you a set of relaxed couple portraits without keeping guests waiting at the reception, and a pre-wedding shoot in the same park beforehand means you already know where to stand.

Town pages

Wedding pages for Northolt, Southall, Hounslow and Kensington

For more on a single town, read the pages for Northolt, Greenford, Southall, Ealing, Brent, Hounslow, Feltham and Kensington and Chelsea. Each sets out the local register office, the stations your guests will use and the planning points for that town. Northolt and Greenford are the closest, both under six miles from Northwood, while Kensington and Chelsea is the furthest at 11.3.

If you are planning a Hindu, Sikh or Muslim wedding, start with the West London Asian wedding page. If you are still comparing parts of the capital, the London wedding photographer page and the guide to London wedding venues are a good next read, and the West London hub covers family sessions, headshots and the other services.