The TLDR Version:
The work:
The Ramsdens are hands down the best wedding photographers in the Hudson Valley. Their talent speaks for itself - you can 100% be assured that you will get the best moments of your special day captured.
The people:...
Caitlinn and Brian are extremely, kind, thoughtful, considerate, sweet, fun, and easygoing people. They are extremely easy to work with and were very very responsive throughout the entire year we worked with them. They are as enthusiastic and as excited about your wedding day as you are. They are phenomenally professional and detail oriented. They never rush you, make you comfortable in the moment (despite how awkward it is) and help you and your SO look the best you can during the craziness of the day.
My husband and I love our photos and I am trying very hard not to spam my friends and family with the photos that we have received. Which by the time, I had SEVERAL friends get married in the weeks before I did, and we received our photos before they did. We received all of our photos in under three weeks. That is unheard of. My husband and I did a small separate elopement and had to hire a separate photographer and it took almost a month and a half and we received a lot less photos.
That was the TLDR version.
Here is the long version.
When I first started my journey by creating a Pinterest board of what kind of shots I would like our photographer to take of the wedding day, I saw The Ramsdens work everywhere and I kept pinning them. After too many pins, I realized the work I was obsessed with was from the same photographers and decided to take a look to see if they would be local to me. And I was so blessed to find not only were they local to me, they were right in the Hudson Valley and regulars at the wedding venue I was getting married at. It could not have been more perfect.
I am also an extremely nitpicky person. To give you a sense of what that means, I tried on 70 wedding dresses before deciding the right one. Even though my gut instinct screamed at me, The Ramsdens are the one, you should hire them, to make sure I was making the right choice I went through the routine of looking at other work just to see if anyone could compare. I searched high and low to see if anyone could compare and they did not. Just looking at people's work it wasn't even a fair shot.
I am also very awkward in photos. I do not like being photographed from many and various specific angles because I have a flat profile, make weird faces, and am always blinking. The Ramsdens managed to capture me in the most flattering way possible so that I don't hate the way I look in pictures (because I usually do). My husband is luckily very photogenic so he was not as concerned about this point as I was.
In fact, I thought The Ramsdens only photographed only hot couples because everyone seems excruciatingly beautiful and good looking in all their posts. But it's not the couples, it's them, they are magic and make everyone look like models with their skills.
Your wedding photos are an investment and they are worth the investment in every single way possible. THERE WILL ONLY BE REGRETS IF YOU DON'T HIRE THEM.