Samantha May Photography

Samantha May is an absolute gem and a must hire for your wedding day photos! Since day one she has been extremely joyful and fun to work with. It’s obviously just by having a call with her how much she truly loves what she does and her photos show it. Our wedding day photos are breathtaking! I feel very lucky to have booked her for our big day!

The team over at Samantha May Photography gave excellent service from day one. When my now husband and I initially reached out, they were super responsive and accommodating. We really wanted to have professional pictures taken during our rehearsal dinner the night before, so they worked out an arrangement so they could be there a couple of hours. It was a small fee, but considering how they could’ve easily just booked another wedding, it was such a great gesture on their end. Also, the pictures from the rehearsal dinner were totally worth it. As the actual wedding day approached, Samantha was extremely communicative and made sure to cover every detail in order to make sure the special day went smoothly and efficiently. She was also very diligent in getting to know us so that way she could make our experience more personal. If we weren’t already convinced that she was the perfect person for the job, then seeing her in action would’ve been the deciding factor. Samantha brought so much energy and she was so great at establishing rapport with the wedding party. It made the whole experience more comfortable, especially since I personally don’t like taking a lot of pictures. She also was excellent in suggesting poses so that we wouldn’t feel awkward. Samantha really took charge since she understood how more laid back my husband and I were, which helped us really enjoy the experience while staying in our element. I would 100% recommend for anyone to work with Samantha May Photography for their wedding, and I would 100% work with her again. I’m sure I won’t be needing wedding services anymore though.

We loved working with Samantha!! She made all the photo shoots so much fun and every picture turned out great. We highly recommend Samantha May Photography. Thanks for everything, Sam!

Samantha was an absolute joy to work with! She was able to capture all of the precious moments from our wedding. Her attention to detail is incredible, she is a truly talented photographer. My husband and I are still so obsessed with our wedding pictures. I could not be happier with how our photos came out.

Hiring Samantha was easily one of the BEST decisions we made for our big day! With a husband who isn’t the biggest fan of being in front of a camera, Samantha made both my husband and I feel comfortable and at ease. She is extremely friendly, wonderful to work with and truly the best of the best. She truly cares about you and what your vision is. Not only that, but her work also happens to be AMAZING! We look at our wedding pics daily and I tear up every time. They are truly treasures that we will hold onto forever. Please do yourself a favor and invest in her! You will not regret it!

I cannot recommend Samantha enough as a wedding photographer. She is extremely professional but is also so fun and energetic on your wedding day. We had some inspiration for our couple photos and she had them printed out so we could recreate them. Our final gallery turned out beautifully and she went above and beyond with the amount of pictures she included! If you are looking for timeless and classic photos for your wedding, Samantha is your gal! We are so happy we chose her to capture our special day!

Samantha May Photography was fantastic to work with from the moment we inquired about wedding photography! Samantha and Ed were kind, responsive, and professional and went above and beyond to make sure our wedding photos were everything that we wanted. Samantha has amazing energy that makes you feel comfortable in front of the camera on your wedding day. Samantha and Ed know what they are doing and helped everything run smoothly on the big day. Our wedding and engagement galleries turned out better than we ever could have imagined and we feel so lucky to have worked with Samantha. We are so glad that we chose Samantha May Photography for our wedding and engagement photos and highly recommend them!

Samantha May is BY FAR the best photographer we have ever had ! Obviously your wedding is a big deal.. we take pictures often & although it was our wedding day, she BLEW it out of the water ! Absolutely nailed every single shot. We are beyond OBSESSED with our gallery. It’s too hard to choose favorites because we have 1300 favorite photos !! lol. Not kidding.. if you’re considering Samantha May as your wedding photographer, trust me, she WILL NOT DISAPPOINT !!! I would give her 10 stars if I could !

Samantha is an amazing photographer and really captures your love story! She makes edits and produces high quality photos. She makes you feel so comfortable, confident, and special during all types of photo shoots! I would highly recommend her as your go-to photographer.

Samantha was an absolute pleasure to work with! She was extremely professional, fun, and made my husband and I feel very special. We had a large wedding party, but her and Ed kept us all on schedule and worked with the venue to flawlessly transition between each part of the wedding. We just got our photos back and they are absolutely gorgeous. I highly recommend Samantha to anyone getting married in the Sacramento area!

I cannot speak more highly about Samantha May! Me, my groom, and our wedding party were blown away by her professionalism and eye for detail! She went over and beyond for us and even helped with planning the timeline to make sure that we got every single shot that we hoped for. Me and my family will cherish these photos for a lifetime, the photos are absolutely gorgeous and timeless! When picking a wedding photographer you definitely want someone with experience - Samatha knows exactly what she’s doing! You will be in amazing hands with her. Thank you Samantha for everything that you have done for me and Andrew, we appreciate you! :)

So any amazing things to say about Samantha and her company! Having Samantha and Ed be our wedding photographers was the best decision we ever made! On our wedding day we felt like they were our wedding guests we had so much fun with them never a dull moment. Everything flowed so well and so organic it never felt uncomfortable which is what we usually think when we think of having a photographer follow you around all day but with Samantha that was not the case she made us feel very comfortable! My husband and I were running behind on wedding day and arrived late to the venue and Samantha and Ed were at the venue on time waiting for us with this being said they never said a thing to us about being late they were super welcoming when we arrived and still made sure all our pre ceremony/get ready pictures were still all taken which we really appreciated that! Now let’s talk about the pictures I just received our gallery and these pictures are amazing!!! We are so happy the way Samantha and Ed took our pictures it feels like a story and it’s been so much fun to see all the pictures of our family and guest that we didn’t get to see on our wedding day. I highly recommend the Samantha May team they are professional flexible and so down to earth and let’s not forge such a fun team to work with!

Hands down the best photographer I’ve ever worked with and I used to model for a living. So amazingly talented! Went above and beyond for not only our wedding but also put engagement photo session as well. Such a joy to work with and does amazing work. Made us so comfortable and captured every moment! Everyone loved her and her team. Would absolutely work with her again. Thank you Samantha for making all my wedding dreams come true. You are the best!

Samantha was amazing to work with! A very personable photographer that makes you feel so comfortable, even when you are shy, not good with posing, or dealing with other frustrations! Her photos turned out so clear and we got so many! All the guests were happy with how it turned out as well!

Let me start off with saying it was an absolute pleasure having Samantha May Photography capture our wedding day and engagement photos! They truly went above and beyond and it really shows with the pictures. From the first day we booked them, there was great communication that continued all the way to wedding day and after. They brought such a fun energy with them and made us feel one hundred percent comfortable. As everyone knows wedding planning can be quite stressful, however, with their guidance and experience they made it stress-free! We are so grateful for having them as our photographers and would book them again in a heartbeat. We will continue to recommend Samantha May Photography to all our family and friends:)

Samantha is the most bubbly and fun photographer to have around! My husband hates taking pictures but she made us so comfortable and got him out of his shell and really made the experience amazing for us! Our pictures turned out absolutely amazing and I am so happy we chose Samantha for our big day

Samantha May Photography was amazing to work with. They were very responsive leading up to the wedding through various forms of communication and made sure to have detailed planning of how the day would go ahead of time. We used them for both the wedding and the engagement pictures and both turned out better than imagined. During the day of the wedding, both photographers were very engaging and receptive to our ideas as well. We were really happy in our choice of photographer and would definitely recommend!

The best wedding photography out there! Honestly she is the whole package! Not only does she have an awesome team she truly goes above and beyond to get the most perfect shots! I also had the most amazing engagement shoot! She makes you feel comfortable which is an extremely important aspect in being photographed, we had a great time! She helped a lot with the wedding nerves and made the entire day such a blast! When we received our photos it was soooo overwhelming with the amount of absolute perfection in the photos! She had captured every single special moment I could ever ask for! Worth every penny! Thank you so much Samantha!

Samantha and Ed are seriously the best. I would 10/10 recommend Samantha May Photography as your photographer for any event. My husband and I do not like to have our photos taken, but they made us feel so comfortable. We thought we'd end up looking like potatoes, but we looked amazing (French fries in her words)!!!! Samantha and Ed are both so incredibly kind, patient and communicates every detail with you. We highly recommend an engagement shoot with them! They made sure we had a lot of fun and it was a great way to learn how they photograph and was a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera. Sam and Ed made our wedding day so seamless, captured the most beautiful moments, and made sure we were taken care of. We are so happy we met them during an open house and it was the best choice we made!

Samantha and Ed are the best! From the engagement session to the wedding and reception they did a fantastic job. They were so much fun to work with and they made everyone feel so comfortable. We received our photos less than 2 months after our wedding and they are beautiful! Do not hesitate to secure them for your wedding!

Truly grateful for Samantha and her team. Right from the start she and Ed brought such great energy and enthusiasm in making sure all my ideas and plans came true! I’m typically shy being the center focus of photos, but Samantha helped make me forget about the shyness with her laughter and amazing energy. Both my engagement photos and wedding photos were absolutely stunning! Most importantly, her and Ed were extremely flexible throughout COVID and my various needs to reschedule. When the wedding day finally came, they were there to capture everything, and made the wedding party feel just as comfortable, and trust me it showed in the beauty and quality of the photos. I promise you will be just as happy choosing Samantha May Photography.

We hired Samantha from our venues preferred vendor list then we met her at our venues vendor party they were having. She did our engagement photos and our wedding photo! Samantha was a delight to work with she made us feel so comfortable and the whole process so easy and stress free which is everything we could have asked for on our day. I highly recommend her to anyone getting married and needing a photographer!

I honestly dont even know where to start and i don't think i have enough time in the day to express my gratitude... for starters, i switched photographers 60 days before my wedding. Nerve racking! But, i couldn't have chosen a better choice if i had to. To say we are grateful and extremely satisfied is an understatement...i don't think i have enough words to express how i really feel. Samantha is nothing short of AMAZING!!!! everything about her... her energy is fierce! She will capture every pose possible down to the last 5 seconds of time that you have. I have never felt more loved and cared for... she was so accommodating... so loving and went above and beyond with every.single.detail! She captured EVERYTHING she could think of; and let me add that it was 109 degrees outside!!!!🥵 Her additional shooter was just as amazing! High energy and captured everything! They were on the same page with everything and so in tune with eachother! Fast forward to getting our photos....OMG!!!! we are just so extremely grateful. Every photo is seriously AMAZING!!!! thank you from the bottom of our hearts for spending our day with us. You are a beautiful human inside and out and anyone that gets to work with you and gets the chance to be in your presence is so extremely lucky❤️ We love you Samantha!!!!

Samantha made us feel right at home on our very first photoshoot for our engagement session. I cant thank her enough for easing our nerves and making it so comfortable. She is the best hype man anyone could ask for in a session! Our photos turned out amazing. I cant wait to work with her and Ed again on our Wedding day. I will recommend her foreverrrrrr!

This day was a promise made to me (the bride ) by the groom when we eloped at the court house 12 years prior. None of our family and friends seen us profound our love for one another so our actual wedding 4/16/22(12 years down the road) was very special to us as we invited our close loved ones. I cannot even imagine having anyone else than Samantha & Ed. They are professionally amazing at capturing our special day. Very friendly team and down to earth. Samantha was highly recommend to us by the romantic Wolfe Heights venue, where our wedding took place. She is amazing, I love how she is a master at guiding us with the posing for photos. Every photo she took came out just perfect. She even went as far to ensure my dress was perfectly fit on me throughout my reception. I really felt her as a close family member. I will be recommending Samantha May Photography to all friends and family.

My husband and I are no experts in getting photos taken and knew we were in need of detailed guidance for our wedding day photos. From our very first interactions with Samantha and Ed with Samantha May Photography we were blown away by their fabulous communication and clear guidance. Samantha and Ed were always prompt to respond to emails, text & phone call which made interacting with them easy. Samantha and Ed gave my husband and I the kindness, direction and undivided attention that made us feel confident and ecstatic on our wedding day. They took their time to get the best shots and worked seamlessly with all members of the wedding party, family members and guests in many locations of the venue to ensure we got all of our requested shots. Samantha and Ed were amazing to work with and feel incredibly lucky to have worked with them on our wedding day. The photos we have from our wedding far exceeded our expectations and they will be so special to have to look back on. I would recommend Samantha May Photography unequivocally. Our wedding was less stressful knowing that we were in great hands.

Samantha and Ed are AMAZING!! I would 10/10 recommend Samantha as your photographer for any event. She is so incredibly kind, patient and communicates every detail with you. Samantha and Ed will always have your back on the best photos possible. They truly made our wedding so special. We are so happy we trusted Samantha through the whole process and could not be happier!! Thank you Samantha and Big Ed!

Choosing Samantha as our photographer was the best decision ever ! Informing us how the day was going to go and to day of she was so much help and was amazing at getting the most beautiful shots ! Would 1000% recommend her . She made us very comfortable and definitely had some good laughs and good times with her and her team ❤️ Beautiful and great quality pictures . Cannot wait to print out all the amazing shots she got of me and my husband and our family ❤️❤️ If your thinking of choosing a photographer Samantha is the one ☝️ 💕

I could not recommend Samantha enough. From our initial call to the night of our wedding she was there for us. It really is true what they say, your wedding day is going to go by so fast. Samantha was there captured every moment. Her and her partner Ed were a godsend! They made the entire process painless. They knew exactly what they were doing, and more importantly communicated it to us! 5 stars isn’t enough. She is lovely and she will treat your wedding day the way it should be treat, as special and once in a lifetime!

Sam was easily one of the highlights of the whole wedding process for my wife and I. The pictures turned out absolutely beautiful. She is an absolute delight to be around and work with, perfectly understood what we were after, knew the venue, and managed to make the photography fun. She was super organized, flexible, communicative, easy to work with, and willing on a couple different occasions to go above and beyond the call of duty for us when we needed some help. We cannot recommend her highly enough. She was one of the best and most perfect parts of a perfect day for us. Sam, thank you from the bottom of our hearts again. Ben and Missy Petrick

We hired Samantha for our wedding and just received our full album - we have no words! We don’t love taking posed photos, and Samantha and Ed were amazing at making us feel like ourselves in front of the camera. They also knew how to make us laugh - we had so much fun with them. I am blown away at every single photo, they are PERFECT! We can’t stop looking at them. Thank you Samantha and Ed for capturing such special moments on our special day. We are forever grateful for you!!

Samantha and Ed were fantastic to work with! Both were so sweet and thorough throughout my husbands and is special day. Our photos are fantastic and I already have TONS printed and shown off! I definitely recommend this service :)

We had Samantha for our Wedding in 2021. She was so amazing ! She had great positive energy , she was the best hype person you can have. She knew all the perfect angles and made our vision come true. Not the mention the editing of the pictures were top notch ! You absolutely get what you pay for .

Samantha May and her assistant both shot for our wedding on September 16th, 2021. To start off, thank you so much Sam for all your hard work and the energy you put to help make our day special. Samantha was great with hyping us up through our engagement shoot, and the day of the wedding. When not shooting us, she is always supporting us whether it was via text or social media. I would get so excited to see a notification of 'Samantha May tagged you in her story' because it was always a 'sneak peak' or just one of our favorite photos. The day of the wedding was stressful, right? She helped by guiding us around GIM before our ceremony. Sam and Ed both helped more than the coordinators themselves (trust me I don't know what I would have done if they weren't there). The day of you are shocked, stressed and don't want to waste time. They both were on their toes and kept us going. Im usually a chill gal, and usually don't become a deer in headlights but I just was the first few hours after arriving at the venue. Sam made sure I had all of my wish shots, and made sure I was content. I still think about this day where we just finished our couple shots and only had like 10 mins left until dinner is served. I sat there, and was like "...wait! i just realized we were not shooting my good side" and Sam was like " LETS GO BACK WE HAVE TO SHOOT HER GOOD SIDE!!" I still see Samantha's stories on Insta and just so happy for her. Just like how she comments on my stories like she is happy for me too. Thank you. Samantha and Sean Pruitt 09/16/21

Samantha and her partner Ed were fantastic to work with from engagement photos all the way to the wedding. She was very accommodating to our specific needs/wants and offered us a great photo package at a lower price than the competition! The day of engagement photos she was immensely friendly and has an infectious energy that she brings with her. She took beautiful photos and did a fantastic job with the editing. The day of the wedding she and Ed were fun to be around, friendly, and professional; they got all of our scheduled photos done ahead of schedule, giving us more time with our guests, and they even stayed later than their scheduled time just so they could get some final shots! My groomsmen and I are a particularly loud and obnoxious group and they both handled us in stride and made us behave when necessary. We received our photos back yesterday and we couldn’t be happier. The photos are well shot and edited in an amazing way that makes the colors and lights pop while still keeping the blacks and darks deep. They even brought out the very subtle coloring in my suit which was incredibly difficult for me and any non-professional photographer to do in our own, so kudos for that! Take a look at Samantha’s website. You won’t be disappointed hiring her and we will definitely be recommending her to other friends getting married soon and we’ll be hiring her for any other events that need professional photography!

Samantha and Ed were both very personable and made the experience really fun! Samantha is really quirky and funny which made me really open up out of my shell and Ed was very organized and made sure we got all the pictures we wanted in a short amount of time. They make a perfect team!

I was lucky to meet Samantha from Samantha May Photography at the bridal fair held at my venue. She is a preferred vendor there and her portfolio was stunning! She got every shot you can think of and makes you feel absolutely beautiful! I got all the shots I wanted for my big day and some I wouldn’t have even thought of. She is so sweet, flexible, and passionate about her work. 10/10 recommend!

Best photographers one can ask for. They were great pre, during and post wedding. Punctual, quick to respond and worked with our timeline. They were also funny and made taking photos super natural for us. They give plenty of instruction when needed and let other things just flow naturally. They let us know exactly what we needed to bring and how to make our photos truly awesome. You will not regret hiring them for your wedding or event.

Samantha and her partner, Ed, were absolutely amazing!! My husband is not very comfortable being in front of a camera, and it seems near impossible to get pictures where we both look good, but Samantha and Ed made us so comfortable and our pictures were incredible! It ended up being pretty smokey on our wedding day, but you can't even tell in the pictures! Also, Samantha and Ed were extremely professional and they instilled so much confidence in us about the day of the wedding and how things would flow! My husband and I loved working with Samantha and Ed and we recommend them to ANYBODY.

Wow what can’t I say about dear Samantha. I met Samantha a few years ago and my then fiancé and I became fast friends and got so close over the years. We knew even before we were engaged that she would be our wedding photographer. She captured stunning engagement photos that have gotten more compliments than I can count and it was such an honor to have her and Ed capture our wedding. I cannot wait to see our wedding gallery in a little while!! She is professional, personable, and hilarious with a beautiful eye for detail, style and design. My husband and I are already super comfortable behind the camera but she definitely goes above and beyond to make everyone on camera feel comfortable and confident. Her and Ed went above for my husband and I and we cannot praise her enough for their amazing hard work. She’s such a gifted photographer and artist with a passion for everyone she works with

Samantha and the cameraman working with her - Ed - were awesome! Samantha's bubbly personality and kind direction were wonderful. It was so nice not to have to think about what to do and how to posture myself, so if you are worried about not being photogenic, she can work some magic with you. She captured our day beautifully, and my husband and I are so happy to have these memories captured in such a fairytale-esque way. I wholeheartedly recommend Samantha!

Let me start off by saying we could NOT have picked a better photographer for our wedding! Samantha was professional, kind, and made us feel super comfortable throughout the whole process.💗 Even when our wedding day schedule was cut a bit short, She still did everything to ensure we got the BEST pictures! Her talent is unmatched and we were so fortunate to have found her! We hope to work with her in the future again for family pictures! So we would definitely recommend her amazing talent to anyone! Sam & Alondra

We love Samantha May! My husband and I were looking for photography that was light, airy, and natural. We met with several photographers with similar styles but it was Samantha's energetic and sweet personality that led us to picking her. She and her second shooter, Ed, were so flexible and accommodating with our unique request of having a break in our day (early afternoon ceremony at one location and evening reception at a second location) and they captured all of the moments we specified as important. I highly recommend Samantha May Photography to any couple!

Honestly, if I could give her more stars, I would!! Samantha and Ed are amazing! For two people I did not know, I've never felt more comfortable. Samantha knows how to pose you, hype you up, make you feel like you're a model, and make you look like a model hehe. My husband and I loved her energy, her presence , and her captures of the most memorable moments of our lives! She will not let you down, if anything, she will make you look and feel your best!! I knew we were in good hands the moment I met her and I couldn't be happier with our finished engagement and wedding shots. If you are looking for a photographer for any event, I would highly recommend her to anyone!! :)