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The countdown has begun! You've decided where you want to get married and the next decision (one of the biggest!) is who will document your special day. So let's see if this sounds like you-
You want natural and timeless photos.
You want to capture all the details that make your day unique.
You enjoy natural light images that are polished and pop- but you want to avoid a heavily filtered look.
You enjoy classic black & white images.
My style is classic, art directed images... with a little bit of edge. When I deliver a wedding gallery, you can expect a mix of portrait, artistic, & documentary style images.
BONUS- My favorite thing is working with couples who warn me that they are "not photogenic" or "a little awkward in front of the camera"- you are my favorite people! And we usually have a great time Reach out now to check your date!
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Business Attributes
- Hispanic or Latinx-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
Photo Shoot Types
- Bridal Portraits
- Engagement
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Photo
- Same-Day Edits
- Second Shooter Available
- Social Media Sharing
- Wedding Albums
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Classic
- Documentary
- Lifestyle
- Modern
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
Awards and Affiliations
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I can't say enough great things about Samantha Ruby. We reached out to her with less than 8 months until our wedding. She was able to start us off with beautiful engagement photos that we had put off because of the pandemic. They came out gorgeous. Working with her to book our wedding day photography was effortless. On the day of the wedding, she did a great job organizing everyone who needed to be photographed and the photos came out wonderful. I would recommend her to anyone looking for a quality wedding photographer.
We are so thankful to have had Samantha capture our wedding day for us. From start to finish, Samantha has been so professional, kind, and a pleasure to work with. After seeing Samantha’s work and speaking with her, we knew we wanted to book her right away. It was so easy to work with her and she helped us be comfortable in front of the camera. We LOVED our engagement photos and our wedding photos, and have friends and family still commenting about how great they were till this day! Samantha is truly very talented!! On top of her talent, Samantha is so easy to talk to, friendly and sweet. We highly recommend Samantha!!
Samantha was very professional, kind, and skilled. I would say the top 3 attributes you need in a photographer. The way she communicated, her timeliness, and all her services were extremely professional. When you meet her in person, she's even sweeter and knows how to carry a conversation and make you feel comfortable. And most importantly, she's skilled. She knows what she wants to shoot and go for. She helped us feel more comfortable in front of the camera and she takes feedback well. After our engagement shoot, we had some thoughts about how we want our wedding to look, and she took the feedback, and worked with us so well.
5/5 stars!!! Samantha was the best wedding photographer and my partner and I are so happy we hired her for our wedding. Samantha was professional, kind, and perfectly captured our vision. My partner and I had some nontraditional requests and Sam was flexible and supportive and always made time to communicate via emails and phone calls to ensure we were on the same page. I highly recommend hiring her for your wedding, you won't regret it!!
We were planning our wedding from across the country and during a quick weekend in New York, Samantha made herself available to meet with us in person to answer all of our questions before signing our contract. She immediately made us feel comfortable and had a calming laid back energy that was extremely important to me as a very type A, stressed out bride. When the pandemic hit and we needed to change our wedding date, Samatha was flexible and rolled with the punches - allowing us to easily rebook without any hoops to jump through or small print to trip us up. The day of the wedding she was such a positive energy that helped everyone survive hours of photos in crazy wind from an impending storm. I would highly recommend Samantha to everyone - she captured our special day with an authenticity that brings me right back every time I look at our album.
Samantha is simply outstanding. Book her! We adore every single photo from our wedding - she captured our love and happiness so organically. Her photos are of a quality well beyond her price point - she captures organic moments and managed to gracefully wrangle my enormous family for portraits that look joyful and gorgeous. Samantha is also incredibly flexible. When the forecast predicted ice storms the day of our wedding, Samantha was down to head out into the woods with us for a secret photo shoot in our wedding outfits the day before. She cares so much about capturing the mood and energy of each couple - I know this because my brother and sister in law loved our photos so much that they booked her for their wedding! Samantha is both unobtrusive and someone you’ll want to be friends with - she puts people at ease and makes them feel comfortable in front of the camera (we hate getting our pictures taken and love having our photo taken by her)! We loved our experience with Samantha so much for our engagement shoot and wedding weekend that we have had the joy of working with her every year since for family portraits as our family has grown. I truly can’t recommend Samantha enough - she’s a true artist and we are so grateful for all of the love and joy she has captured for us over the years.
Whatever you do, DO NOT HESITATE to choose Ruby Photography to capture your wedding day! If you want to be reminded of every magical, whimsical, unforgettable moment from your special day every time you look through your photos, LOOK NO FURTHER than Ruby Photography. Seriously. Stop scrolling and reach out to Ruby Photography immediately. Hopefully their schedule isn’t already full and you can get on their calendar so they can capture your day. You won’t regret it. After saying yes to get married to each other (!), Ruby Photography was the next and best decision we made in the planning of our wedding. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Samy!
We had the pleasure of working with Samy to shoot our elopement and it could not have been anymore magical. Our elopement was planned with short notice and when we found out Samy was available to shoot our special day, we were so excited. My husband and I are very awkward (tall) people, and the thought of getting photographed was nerve wrecking to say the least. She not only made us comfortable but she helped navigate a very last minute situation, helped direct our ceremony and made sure it was smooth and easy for us. Our photos were timeless and elegant. She even sent us a sneak peak the morning after our wedding night which was such a lovely surprise to wake up to. She is an incredible artist so her eye for photography is unmatched. She took flash photos in our backyard after party that we will cherish forever. Everything captured was organic, personal, and in the moment. The tears, the laughs, the dancing, the food, everything. Every moment was captured to be remembered. I can not recommend her enough for your wedding or elopement.
Samantha of Ruby Photography truly made our day! I recently got my wedding photos back after only a few weeks from the event and… WOW. They’re stunning in a way I could not have imagined. Samantha took time to understand our vibe, what we hoped to get out of our photos and she delivered above and beyond. On top of being a gifted photographer, she made me feel comfortable and relaxed in front of the camera.
She was the backbone of our wedding day running smoothly since we did not have a large event with a lot of structure. THANK YOU again Ruby Photography! You killed it! 💖
I wasn’t the one that hired her, my best friend did. As soon as I met her, it was all happy vibes and jokes. She’s super funny and charming! While taking pictures, she guides people with meticulous precision for the perfect picture. Of course the pictures came out perfect and now I know who to hire when I need a photographer with personality.
Samantha was a delight to work with! She was punctual and very professional all while still being so sweet and friendly with us and our guests/family. She did an amazing job capturing our special day, and I hope to work with her again the future.
Sam came as a recommendation from my best friend. After seeing a preview of her pictures I knew when I got married she would be the one I would hire! Future bride and grooms, rest assured that if you decide to go with Sam, you will get AMAZING photos. She made my husband and I feel really comfortable and we genuinely had FUN. She is truly talented and we are so grateful that she captured the most beautiful moments. Thank you Sam
Samantha is so incredibly talented! She photographed my sister’s wedding last year, and after seeing her work, we asked her to photograph our wedding in April. Samantha was never in your face and our photos look so natural and truly capture the emotions, love and laughter of our wedding day. I would HIGHLY recommend Samantha for any wedding or celebration!
We loved working with Samantha! Our pictures came out beautifully and she was so friendly, helpful, and creative from the engagement shoot all the way through the reception!
When it comes to your wedding day, your photographer has just one opportunity to capture all of the special moments that you will cherish for a lifetime! Samy of Ruby Photography did an awesome job of capturing those photo memories at my daughter’s wedding. A few people with whom I shared the pictures asked how many photographers we had at the wedding as it appeared that not a moment was missed. I told them that we had just one photographer who had a knack for managing time and space appearing to be in many places at once and who had an eye for selecting images that would truly tell the story of that special day. One photographer is all you need when you pick the right one! Thank you Ruby Photography!- signed Grateful Mother of the Bride
Hands down, the best gift I could have ever given my brother and new sister-in-law for their wedding was hiring Samy Ruby as their wedding photographer. This woman's talent knows no bounds, and her photos are stunning. She deftly captures each moment to tell an incredible story of an incredible day that I get to relive every time I go through the album! Do yourself (and your loved ones) the favor of getting Samy to take your photos before my very big Nigerian family books her out for every wedding we've got coming for the next 5 years. Trust me, Samy will be one of the best decisions you ever made in planning your big day!
Even better that we expected!!!
We found Samatha via Google, coming to get married from Europe we had no idea what to expect. She was very flexible and professional, recommended good places and good timing, and made our day just unofrgettable. The pictures are so nice, we cant stop looking at them; We strongly recommend Samantha and her work, she will make your day even better.
Lucia and Giuliano
I've loved Samantha's work for years, and as soon as my now-husband proposed one of the first things I did was message her to make sure she was available on our wedding date! I've only half-jokingly asked her to be our family photographer for life. She is truly incredible. She has the amazing ability to capture a couple's true personality and a knack for capturing real candid moments and making them look as beautiful as if they'd been posed! My biggest struggle after getting our photos has been deciding which ones to print out and frame because they're all so good. She truly captures the joy in the room and in the words of my father, "She doesn't just capture photos, she captures moments." We don't feel like a single moment escaped her lens. If you're looking for a photographer who "gets you," who embeds herself so well she captures the most gorgeous candids of you and your guests, who makes you feel as comfortable and calm as possible (it is your wedding day, after all), look no further. There literally aren't enough words to praise Samy or her work. She's the absolute best!
Samy was the absolute best. She was a calming presence in a stressful day and brought out the magic in everything. Her candid shots are incredible. She captures emotions, light and movement so well I want to frame everything she took. Trust her process, she makes it look so easy but she is not to be underestimated, this woman is going to blow up any day now. I'm just happy we found her while we could afford her! Every picture is a piece of art, a moment captured with so much care. We are not photogenic people, we don't know how to smize or pose, Samy just waits until our inhibitions drop for a split second, and that's when she takes her shot. And it's beautiful every time. I got married in August and am still just drooling over these photos. She is worth every penny and more. Do yourself a favor and hire her before Vogue does!
Samy was awesome!
I had a destination wedding so I wasn't personally able to meet with her prior to my wedding day. I was a little hesitant to choose Ruby Photography at the beginning being that there weren't many reviews when I hired her but I am so very happy that I did. My wedding photos came out amazing! She was really easy to work with. Easy going personality, it was actually fun having her be a part of my wedding day. My photo album came out amazing.
Definitely worth the cost.
I have to say that from the beginning to the end Sam was amazing! When we had our first meeting to discuss what kind of shots we wanted for our wedding Sam really listened and understood what we wanted. Sam was great with follow-up emails, checking in to know the wedding day itinerary and any changes that were needed. On the wedding day she was so wonderful; her happy, friendly, easy going vibe was great! Her talent captured so beautifully our wedding day! My husband and I are so impressed with how our photos came out. We keep on reliving our wedding through the photos (And I can't stop looking at our photos ;)). Thank you again Sam!!
I could not be more pleased with the service, the talent, and the amazing photographs that we received of my daughter's wedding. Samantha was super responsive and helpful during the entire planning process. She was delightful and engaging throughout the entire event but somehow invisible when taking photos. Many of the shots look as if she were standing right next to the Bride and Groom at the alter but we don't even remember seeing her in the room during the ceremony. I would refer her without hesitation.
Samantha was amazing and all of our pictures turned out beautifully. She was kind and sweet and professional and absolutely the right choice. There isn't a single bad thing to say about her.
Overall, it was a 3.5 star experience, but The Knot doesn't allow that option.
It was okay working with Ruby Photography. My original photographer (recommended by my best friend) had a last minute family emergency and had to cancel. For the price I was paying, I didn't want to "just" have her second/third photographers leading the pack- Thus, I looked for alternative photographers with a smaller budget. We were happy to meet Samantha.
Samantha agreed to work with us within our budget. That said, a few weeks later, she advised that she would be unavailable (double booked) but another photographer would be available- At a slightly slimmed price. We agreed since we didn't have time to look for a new photographer.
The photographer was ok, but didn't give us much direction for our portraits, a handful of photos given to us were blurry, the smiles/blinks weren't organize. I will say, Eric and I had about 10 photos we truly loved/high quality- enough for us to give 4 stars. But I had to take away 1 star because we wanted more photos that weren't blurry/not coordinated. And lastly, they named our digital wedding book incorrectly "Erick" instead of the correct spelling, "Eric." I advised Ruby Photography to fix it so that I could share the album- They never got back to me. I feel like after I paid them, they just split. A small edit, but an ignore edit made me further reduce their rating by .5 stars
Samy was a dream to work with! She captured our day just as we imagined and we couldn't be happier. We wanted pictures taken at an abandoned Boy Scout camp in Media, PA and Samy carried her equipment in the heat for the hike without complaint. She came a day early to scout the location with us and even convinced us to do a first look in the creek that we love. It came out better then we could have imagined and highly recommend her. Not only do we appreciate her talent and style, her personality and fun attitude made her such a pleasure to be around. Do yourself a favor and choose Ruby Photography!
Hire Ruby!
My son and his lovely bride were married this past June and it was the most beautiful day you could imagine...magical in every way. We could not have asked for a more beautiful ceremony and reception. Every moment was so wonderful and it was captured so beautifully by Ruby. Ruby captured the very essence of the day, joyful moments and faces of our friends and loved ones. In fact there were images of events that I missed out on that I would never seen if it were not for Ruby. The wonderful part is, she never manipulated the day. She quietly took beautiful images throughout but didn't seem to miss a thing. We look back at all the visual memories and are so grateful to her and her professionalism. You will not be disappointed if you hire her skilled eye to forever remember your precious moments. We couldn't have asked for a better photographer to trust with one of our greatest family milestones. Ruby was wonderful!!
Samy and her team are simply the best. She's a long-time trusted friend that we've personally seen outdo expectations wedding after wedding. For ours, she had to fly out on a red-eye from a wedding in Chicago the night before, yet she remained confident, chipper, and capable the *entire day*, despite long hours on very little sleep. Our friends and family regularly tell us that our photos are the best they have ever seen, and we agree! My wife and I made a book out of our favorites, and we look through it probably every week. Thanks again, Samy!
Samantha was so amazing to work with!! She was so friendly and most of all fun! She was able to calm my stressed out (hard to please) parents, and keep the wedding party laughing and upbeat even when we were getting tired and hungry. By the end of the day; I felt like we were totally all friends! She really got our relationship and it showed in the beautiful photos. She was able to capture so many of the small moments that I couldn't have even told her that I wanted. She was just so good at capturing the intimate moments as well as the big moments! I loved her calm personality and how good she was with everyone from older family members to the flower girl. She had a way of making me feel at ease and that the photos were the last thing I had to worry about! I highly recommend you book her!!
We absolutely loved working with Samantha Ruby! She was so easy to work with, the bridal party absolutely loved her, even our parents raved about how hard she worked and how great she was! The next day we received a preview of our wedding and the images were so beautiful, I could not have had a better experience!
Samy was GREAT! I'm not a natural in front of the camera but Samy makes you feel so comfortable and makes the whole experience fun. Thanks Samy! I look forward to doing more shoots with you in the future.
I am in love with my wedding photos! Ruby Photography did an excellent job capturing the joy of our wedding.
She is everything you want in a photgrapher. She is personal yet professional and efficient. She manages the time well without feeling rushed.
I am so thankful that I had her take my wedding photos and am convinced she is the best one out there!
Samantha is a very talented photographer! Her work is very beautiful and artistic. She is easy to work with and extremely accommodating. My fiance and I hate taking pictures but because she is so easy to work with we were actually very excited to have our pictures taken all day on our wedding. She worked extremely hard the entire 12 hours that day that I actually started feeling bad. I haven't received my final pictures yet but the 15 preview photographs I received 12 hours after my wedding were absolutely stunning and exceeded my expectations.
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