Matt Ramos Photography – Blog

When you shoot over 40 weddings in a year, I’ll be honest – your brain & creativity can sometimes go to mush and it’s exhausting towards the end of the cycle.  For this reason, the last wedding of the season is always bittersweet in terms of balancing that with the fact you want to go out with a bang…. in many ways the last wedding is more pressure than the first simply because it is your final seal of your work that year.  Luckily, it was an awesome wedding and feel great knowing that not only did we get fantastic images of the day, but now I also get a much needed breather until the next wedding!  (which is going to be amazing since my wife is due to deliver our twins any day now and will get the time to enjoy the experience!)  By the way, I want to give a very special thanks to my good friend, Niki Rossi, who went above and beyond and shot with us on this wedding for a bit as a backup in case my wife went into labor… what an amazing friend and can’t thank her enough for her support :)

Erika & Matt were great to work with as well as their entire family and bridal party – considering how cold it was outside, I was expecting some dirty looks and attitude perhaps (only kidding), but they were all such troopers – this makes life easy, and I have to say – smaller bridal parties are definitely the way to go to keep it simple, quick & easy!  (hint, hint)  A few that I would like to give some thanks and credit for helping make this wedding great were:

Hampton Inn, Saratoga Springs – in my opinion the best hotel to get ready in
Kim Ryan & the Classe Catering team – amazing food and service as always :)
Garland & his band Soul Session – those looking for a band have no idea how amazing these guys are – check em out!

I’m posting a few samples from Erika & Matt’s day (yesterday by the way), until the online viewing & ordering site is live.  For those interested, you can pre-register your email at the link below to receive automatic notification of when images go live:

http://mattramosphotography.instaproofs.com/enterEvent.php?id=178104

Congrats again to Erika & Matt and hope you guys have a blast on your well deserved honeymoon!  As for me, I’m done shooting weddings til January, but will be working around the clock to get caught up on all those weddings that have yet to be released.  While I won’t have many more posts coming as far as weddings are concerned, stay tuned for photos and the announcement of our new twin babies are will soon be born – then you will see some serious photos! :)

look who found some color on the trees at the end of November! :)

killer shot my right hand (wo)man, Jessica shot – one of my favorites of the day!

seriously, I own this door

the amazing Canfield Casino

seriously, how cool are these plates!?

Ok, we’re next – wait for the signal….

another one of my favorites from the day!

We are now down to our last couple weddings of the year, which is an exciting thought for me to actually have a weekend where I can relax a bit (then again, my wife is due to deliver our twins any day now, so I may want to rethink that statement, lol).  This past weekend I had the opportunity to document the day and hang out with Kelly & Matt, who I have very much enjoyed getting to know a bit over this past year.  Matt’s very much into photography these days, and Kelly was kind enough to surprise him with a new Nikon D90 (the Dark Side), which I’m sure he’s going to have a blast with…. we could probably talk photography all day if you let us!  They were both so great to work with along with their entire family and bridal party and it was a real treat to get to shoot this wedding.

This wedding was also my first wedding shooting at the beautiful Stockade Inn of Schenectady, which was awesome to work at (great food and service) and holds so much history and character.  Some of you may want to check it out if you are looking for a nice place for your reception and have a small to medium guest list.  I also want to give props to one of my favorite DJ’s, Mike Garassi of Music Man Entertainment for doing a great job – always a pleasure to work with him!

For those interested, you ca pre-register your email at the link below to receive notification of when images go live (roughly 4-5 weeks).  A huge thank you and congrats to Kelly & Matt, who are hopefully enjoying their honeymoon right about now, instead of hanging out in the cold like the rest of us!

http://mattramosphotography.instaproofs.com/enterEvent.php?id=178102

The Stockade Inn is cozy and beautiful as you can see….

Amazing floral decor by Fleurtacious Designs

love this shot of the rings!

look familiar?

future heartbreaker

Kelly & Matt weren’t a huge fan of the pumpkins (I don’t know why?) – I think they won a contest though :)

moments like these during a ceremony are the best

love the romantic feel and warmth of this one