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Monthly Archives: August 2008

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Secret Summer Project Revealed!!!

August 28, 2008 – 1:56 am

Hey everyone! Alright…I know that I mentioned and previewed a big ole shoot that we did this summer for a company that we couldnt announce right afterwards…BUT…its football season and we have been sent the preview of the ad so its time to share So…here is it! We did the shoot for Miller Lite beer and it will be the main Miller ad for this areas football season…and this areas big rivalry game too! We hope you all like it…we worked our butts off but everything was so much fun and we had so much support from everyone that we couldnt have done it without a million different prayers and words of encouragement so…here it is and we cant wait to see it in grocery stores and on billboards in the next few weeks!

So…ugh….go Dawgs!!!! :)

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BRB

August 25, 2008 – 1:37 pm

Hey everyone…sorry I have been scarce this week..its been insane and this morning Im heading out to Wilmington, NC to see some good friends and take a few days to relax before Sept. hits and my life gets super crazy again.. I hope you all understand. :) Im not bringing my camera..but my friend Jessica will have her point and shoot so Im sure I’ll post a few pictures of us being silly girls this week so..stay tuned and have a great week! I’ll be back on track Friday. :) And if you need anything, Abbey will be in the office this week and she’s always helpful so..give her a call!

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Leigh: Bridals

August 20, 2008 – 8:04 pm

Everyone, meet Leigh! I met Leigh a little over a year ago when I started shooting for Reynolds and I have to tell you…she’s just the cutest thing! She and her husband have been married for a little over a year and their wedding day got rained out…it was outdoors and you know how finicky the weather can be here in Georgia so..needless to say, she didn’t get any fun pictures of her outside in her BEAUTIFUL dress. He dress has the coolest story to it too! When she contacted me about shooing a Bridal session for her, she said that it was her mothers dress and that it was really special to her..well, when she got here, I was BLOWN away at how pretty it was and then she went on to tell me about all of the custom work they did to it to make it hers…the dress was so pretty and I LOVED the ruffles on the bottom…we had a lot of fun and we started shooting at our new studio (Ive been DYING to grab these shots since we moved in here and Leigh was perfect for the job!) and then headed out to the Founders Garden where they were married to finish our session. Here are a few of our favorites and Congrats Leigh on your first anniversary!!!!

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Horne: Family Session!

August 18, 2008 – 5:35 pm

Everyone, Meet the Horne family! Well, technically you have several different last names in the mix with each sibling being married and now a few grand babies in the mix, but we will just go with it! I have known Morgan (you’ll see her and her sweet mama in a picture by themselves in here) FOREVER! She was a bridesmaid in my wedding, I shot her engagement session and bridals for her wedding, and we pretty much grew up in our spiritual lives together while we were buddies in college, so..you could say shes pretty special to me. :) Morgans mama called and we set up this session to grab a complete family portrait and it was so much fun! The last few years have brought both daughters getting married and new babies being born, so it was a fun time to celebrate being together and just having fun as a family! Here are some of our favorites from the session!

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NEW BLOG!!!

August 18, 2008 – 2:27 pm

Hey everyone! Welcome to the new Melissa Pepin Photography blog! We are sooooooo excited to have a new home and please shoot us your feedback…but be nice…we’re sensitive! :) And a HUGE thank you to my sweet husband Anthony because he was like.. “oh..you want a new blog…DONE” and he spent all weekend setting everything up…Im going to give him a raise.. :) Stay tuned for posts from the Horne Family session and from Leigh’s Bridal session!

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It’s been a while…

August 15, 2008 – 8:50 pm

Alrighty..so its been 6 days since my last post and its been kind of crazy around here… I HATE when I cant post more often but..no apologies..busy is good..:) I have some family portraits to post and tomorrow night Im shooting some awesome bridals and next week will bring lots of posting..no worries friends..I havent forgotten you.I promise!

I will leave you with one image that I shot on Wed. night for Reynolds Plantation. Its for an article about canoeing and the lake was so peaceful…and still. I love it. I plan on scheduling some still and peaceful time for me and the hubs this weekend. :) Have a great weekend everyone and I will post more pictures asap!

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Nature is a BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 9, 2008 – 6:52 pm

Okay…so Im all about some cute animals and some wild animals and E all of the above and all…..but lets talk about this nasty creature who we got an unexpected visit from the other night…. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!1

So..Anthony and I are minding our own business…sitting on our front porch having a glass of wine…like we do several times a week…just talking about how our day went and yatta yatta( Its a really special time for both of us each night..but for sake of time and the story..I’ll leave out our mushy lovey details and jump right to the chase! So I hear what sounds like a cat running around in our little flower beds in front of the house…Diana is our neighbors Sam and Jessica’s cat and shes a frequenter to my porch so..I just assumed it was her…but it got louder and Louder..and LOUDER until I jumped up and made Anthony go inside to get the flashlight so we could look under our porch and see what it was….

Well…Anthony gets off the porch with the giant, weapon like Mag lite and creeps around the front of the porch and shines that light in and then he gasps and opens his mouth really wide as if to say.. “OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!” IT as an ARMADILLO!!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! The ONLY time I ever want to see an armadillo is when its made out of cake at wedding receptions…so this was super UN expected and TERRIFYING to me! There are few animals that I really cant handle…snakes (as seen from Randi and Jon’s post a few weeks ago)…geese (I know its weird but the darn things surround me EVERY TIME I go jog at ANY pond….I just know one day they are going to try to peak out my eyes!) and NOW armadillos!

We realized that it had wandered under our porch through this little opening in our lattice board so we tried to get it out…we were equipped with the following:

(1) Super heavy duty Mag Lite
(1) 8ft extender painters pole
(1) pair of crocks
and (1) Canon 5D camera…

Heres how it all went down….

Anthony tried to guide it out..and it came OUT from underneath the porch..but then got startled and ran back under..BLAH! So we tried again..poking it with a little rod and trying to get it to turn around and skee-dattle… for those of you that saw when David Jay shot the bat out of his basement…you would have LOVED seeing what my husband had in mind for this little guy if we could have gotten a hold of it! (p.s. no animals were harmed during this evacuation…brought to you by Katie Moore). Long story short…we finally got it out and now its gone for good..but Im still afraid one morning Im going to go outside to get in my car and my house is going to be surrounded by an army of these scary creatures all wanting payback for making their friend leave….pray for our safety…. :)

Here are some pictures!!

This is the darn thing running back under the porch..grrrrrr

Thats me..terrified!!!!!

Thats Anthony….armed and dangerous

There it is all stuck…BLAH!

Now he means business!!!!


Shooo big ole fat armadillo!!!!!!!

The end

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Sydney and Brett: Engaged!!!

August 6, 2008 – 8:19 pm

Everyone, this is Sydney and Brett! These two are soooooo much fun and we cant wait for there wedding in October to get here! They are getting married at Bona Allen Mansion in Buford and that place is incredible. When Abbey and I pulled up to Bona Allen where we also did their engagement session, we were SOOOOOO excited to see that the gate was open so we could go inside. We thought they would have it all closed by then, so we made a run for it and had a really good time looking over the grounds and hearing Syd’s details about where everything out be set up and how everything was going to look on their BIG DAY! We had the best time with these two and we are so excited to be a part of their wedding. We started their shoot at Bona Allen and then we migrated to some areas around the mansion itself…then off to WAFFLE HOUSE! Now you guys know I like to shoot at places that are specific and special to each of our couples…and Waffle House just happens to be where Sydney and Brett ended up at the end of their first date… so we couldnt pass it up! Thanks Sydney and Brett for being so willing to brave the heat…you guys are awesome and we cant wait until October! Click HERE to see their slide show and here are some of our favorites from the shoot…













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Office Space…

August 4, 2008 – 9:42 pm

Its time to FINALLY post some pictures…I wanted to wait until the grand opening to post any images…so we could finish everything…so here they are..we had SUCH a fun time! And Thanks to Jessica Mann, Jessica Mixon, and my new OM Abbey for taking pictures for the night so I could “mingle” :)

We set Matt (yea..this is my assistant/friend Katie’s husband Matt…owner of Southern Road Productions) up in front of our new backdrops fabrics and flashed him Hollywood style with our new lighting gear and let him be our bar tender for the night…he was AWESOME!!!! Between all the wine and beer and our Key Lime Martini that we were serving..he was busy alllll night…


Heres a little GP for Kate… :) hehhhehehe

Shaken…not stirred….


Jessica and Jessica SURPRISED the fool out of me on Thursday night when they knocked on my door at home around 9:20pm. Anthony answered the door and he said..’I think its for you”…meanwhile..we were watching Vi for Missy and Jon and I was elbow deep in diaper changing so..I was more than annoyed to have to get up and leave little miss on the floor to answer the door..but I was sooooo shocked and surprised and excited to see these ladies…sometimes I just NEED them in my life. :) (a lot of the time….)
Before all the people came…

The new door sign..yippie! Some people live to see their name in lights..I’ll be just fine with it being on a door! :)


This is our OM Abbey….we LOVE Abbey and her husband Adam…they are TOO much fun!





Several of our awesome clients and friends came by see everything..can we talk about this babies John Dear Hat….I love it..and he looks just like his uncle Eli!!! :)

This is our super cute patio area….it will be AWESOME in like October/November…(p.s. do you see my super hot hubs in the left had side..heheheh. :) )


Tons of people stopped by throughout the night…it was awesome!!!


Plenty of sitting room my friends…so come stop by!!!



Apparently I had a good time even if no one else did… :)


and the double J’s get artsy with this last one… :)

Thanks a MILLION time over to everyone who helped us and made Friday night come together…thanks to AMS for providing music for us for the night and thanks to everyone who has been praying for us for so long..we feel your prayers and we see Gods hand working!

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