Wedding Photographer | Claudia Rose Carter | UK & Worldwide

I am a massive fan of simplicity.

To illustrate this I will let you in on a couple secrets. Firstly, I recently I set myself a goal to only buy black or white clothes in order to refine my wardrobe and avoid the umms and ahhs of the changing room. Secondly, I hoover on an every-other-day basis in order to keep the floor clean of any additional bits of fluff that don’t need to be there.

Some may call it obsessive. I just see it as my ‘thing’.

To be able to find simplicity on a very hot, very bustling bank holiday Monday in Brighton was a challenge. That challenge inspired this photography:

It wasn’t quite trepidation but there was a sense of the unknown when I knew that I was meeting Julia & Greg in Brixton for their pre-wedding shoot. My last (and only) memory of this part of London was from the Christmas of 2010 when I travelled down from Edinburgh to meet my dad for this at the Brixton O2 Academy. I have always been a massive Pogues fan and despite the frequent stumbling across the stage and seeming to hold on to the mike stand for fear of falling Shane McGowan’s voice still held out which made the journey absolutely worth it. Who wants to see The Pogues without a semi-on-form Shane McGowan?!

My experience of Brixton on a Thursday night at 11pm two days before Christmas was vastly different from the Brixton that I experienced with the lovely Julia & Greg. Culture. Food. Sensations that attack all of your senses. And a feeling of being part of something upon stepping into Brixton Village. Like you’ve been accepted into some strange far away world full of quirky boutiques, colourful restaurants and pop up shops. Julia and Greg are very much part of that world and jumped to let me into their secrets. After a glass of prosecco (celebration of course!) and a buckwheat crepe (yum.) that is where we shot this pre-wedding. In the pub down the road that you wouldn’t necessarily walk to if you didn’t know it was there and the green spaces tucked in down a residential street lined with skinny houses with shutters in that absolute ye olde London town feel.

I hope you love it.

“I know a place,
Not far away where the Sun always shines.
You will be mine,
And I’ll love you.” – The Kinks

These two beauties, Allison & Ricky, are getting married in less than two weeks at the amazing Fforest campsite in Wales. I’m so excited to be able to photograph their big day and if this pre wedding shoot was anything to go by, the camera will just eat them up. The affection and love between them sings out, loud.

Just that. And all that it signifies. That’s who Stef & Niall are and who they are to each other. Magical, An Escape and and Home. I am so proud and excited to be shooting their wedding in Sorrento in July.