Ok, folks…. I’m going to give you fair warning that I went a little nuts on this blog post with the photos, but hopefully you will not mind! Jessica & I had the extreme pleasure to photograph the amazing wedding of Tara & Jack this wedding, and I seriously am blow away at how many incredible images we were able to capture from the day! Tara & I go way back as good friends who used to work together when I was in the corporate world & before leaving to run my business fulltime. She took a big promotion to Arizona a few years ago, and I was super excited to get a call from her to shoot her wedding last year. I’ve photographed hundreds and hundreds of weddings, but cannot say I have ever photographed a couple so photogenic (I’m still trying to figure out who looked better, Tara or Jack – lol).
I’m used to shooting weddings at these amazing venues and to be honest, I was slightly nervous when I realized I didn’t have any exquisite reception hall or architecture to work with on this one, but rather an empty field (that they used to park the cars of 240 guests I might add). Sometimes simple is better – we found an open spot in the middle of nowhere with some tall grass and a nice big oak tree to work with, which made for some great photo opportunities. I’ve got dozens more weddings to shoot this year, but I’ve got a hunch that this will go down as one of the best of the year.
For a day that was supposed to have thunderstorms, it was an all around incredible day and lots of fun to shoot…. Jack & Tara were so easy to work with, it was unbelievable – they are so good looking, I shot most of the images with my eyes closed and both hands tied behind my back – I wish they were all that easy! Later in the day, I spotted this cool car parked in the lot and dared to ask who’s it was and to see if we could possibly use it for some photos with the bride and groom…. my ignorance paid off big in the image department as the car shots are by far some of my favorite of the entire wedding – a huge thanks to the owner (Tara’s cousin) for allowing us to use it. For those interested, you can pre-register your email at the link below to receive automatic notification of when images go live in about 30 days:
http://mattramosphotography.instaproofs.com/enterEvent.php?id=122078
A huge thanks and congratulations to Tara & Jack as well as their friends and family for allowing us to hang out (and make you go in the weeds against your will, etc) I leave you with about 20-25 of my favorite images below!
P.S. huge props to Chris Hollister of Cool Cat DJ for doing an amazing job, playing great music and making us all laugh – highly recommended!
the fellas hanging out before the ceremony
as you can see, Jack is a bit of a ladies man… move over McDreamy
the shots got a little better after I did a little weed-wacking with my shoe
one of my favorite shots my assistant Jess got – wow!
they don’t get much better looking than this… and the couple ain’t so bad either :)
how’s that advertisement go again? “you’re gonna like the way you look, I guarantee it”
I broke my flash on accident just before the reception so shot everything in natural light – it worked out :)
I don’t know what I like better on this shot – Tara’s emotion or Jack quietly staring down his wife’s reactions to a great speech…
favorite shot from the wedding hands down – let’s keep them eyes on the road!
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by Matt Ramos
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