Chertsey · Surrey · 2026 & 2027
Botleys Mansion Wedding Photographer
A Palladian house with a double staircase built for confetti, a glasshouse that never runs out of light, and grounds that keep giving until the sun goes down.
What a Botleys Mansion wedding photographer is working with
The staircase is the reason most couples book it, and rightly so. Confetti down both flights, a hundred guests along the stone balustrades, and the two of you in the middle of it — it is one of the few set pieces in the South East that photographs as well as it looks in your head.
The glasshouse takes the ceremony, and it is the opposite of the problem most country houses give you. Glass on every side, white florals, and none of the gloom that makes a photographer reach for flash at two in the afternoon.
Then the grounds open up. Long grass, mature trees, and a drive that works beautifully in the last hour of light.
The staircase is the photograph everyone remembers, but it is over in about twenty seconds. Being in the right place before it starts is the whole job.
The staircase, and how to actually use it
Two lines rather than a ring. Guests on both flights, you walking up through the middle, and everybody throwing at once rather than in a slow ripple. It takes eight seconds to do and about two minutes to set up, which is time worth spending.
I photograph it from below and from the landing, and I do not ask anyone to do it twice. If it happens once and it happens properly, that is the picture.
From the landing, looking down. The balustrades put your guests in the frame without anyone being arranged.
Speeches, from the side with a long lens. The reactions are usually the photographs.
The grounds, and the twenty minutes worth protecting
Golden hour here is worth defending in your timings. Ten minutes in the grounds, no shot list, and you are back with your guests before anyone notices you left.
I will tell you roughly when that window falls for your date when you book, so it can be built into the running order rather than squeezed in around it.
The grounds, late on. Nobody was asked to stand anywhere.
The morning, before any of it starts.
A Botleys Mansion wedding photographer’s timeline, hour by hour
Timings move with your ceremony time, but this is the shape of most of the weddings I photograph. Nothing here is a rule — it is simply what tends to work.
What a £2,500 Botleys Mansion wedding photographer covers
One price, the same for every couple, written out in full so there are no surprises.
Straight answers
One that is published, and it is at the bottom of this page. I will always tell you honestly how well I know a venue rather than imply more.
The glasshouse, if it is available. It is the brightest room on the site and it needs no help at all from me.
Two short slots: fifteen minutes after the ceremony and ten more when the light drops. Never one long session.
Not until the dancefloor. Silent shutter all day, so the ceremony and the speeches stay undisturbed.
No. Travel is included, there is no mileage charge, and I come up the night before where it makes sense.
Real weddings at Botleys Mansion
One full gallery from my work as a Botleys Mansion wedding photographer, shot as the day happened. No posing, no staging, no repeating things for the camera.
The venue, and booking a Botleys Mansion wedding photographer
Botleys sits just outside Chertsey in Surrey, close enough to the M25 that guests arrive calm and far enough from it that you would never know.
I photograph one wedding a day and never book two. If your date is free, £500 holds it and the balance is due thirty days before.
Tell me your date
One price, everything in it, and a whole day photographed without anyone being asked to pose.