Wes Roberts

When you are in college, arriving early to class isn't really the thing you do, that is unless something or someone catches your eye.  A quick glance leads to conversation, which leads to studying together, which leads to spending additional time with each other, and leads us to this wedding day.  Melissa and Wil wanted a day that they could enjoy with their family and friends as well as being able to celebrate with elements of the school that united them, elements such as the Toomer Trees and Lemonade, which Auburn's football season makes it even more special.  Each moment of the day was filled with joys that almost seemed to overwhelm the heart and lead you right into the why these two love each other.  To add even more to this wedding, it being held at Callaway Gardens provided an amazing backdrop of simplicity, nature and beauty.  Thank you Melissa and Wil for allowing me to join you and your family on this amazing day!

Venue: Callaway Memorial Chapel

Cake Artist: Sarah Dixon-Chapman

Floral Designer: Bloomwoods Flowers

Reception: Callaway Gardens Discovery Center

To say that we were blessed to be a part of Elise and Bradley's day would be an understatement. Let me start from the beginning...

When we moved to Phenix City, Alabama about 4 years ago, Brock-Allen had not even turned one. Wes and I were very apprehensive about just leaving Brock-Allen with anyone. You know how new parents are...no one is good enough to take care of their child. Well we started attending Golden Acres Baptist Church and through others in our Bible Fellowship Group were told about how wonderful Elise was and what a great babysitter she was.  We decided to have Elise over one afternoon to just get to know her and let Brock-Allen spend some time with her as well. Well...we fell in love with Elise or Ms. Ewees as Brock-Allen calls her and she ended up being our number one babysitter and a great friend of mine. She loves Brock-Allen as her own and has always taken extremely good care of him when she is with him. He loves her as well! Elise has a heart of gold. She spent the last 6 months living with her grandmother and personally caring for her grandmother who passed away a few days before the wedding. She was very close with her and will be missed greatly. 

Wes and I were able to watch Elise and Bradley's relationship grow and even got the privilege of watching Bradley propose to Elise. What a special place they both hold in our hearts! When Elise asked us to shoot her wedding...without hesitation...we said YES!!!!

Simple, sweet details made Elise's wedding so special. She wore her mother's wedding dress which was over 30 years old and was hand sewn by her great-grandmother and grandmother. She carried her grandmothers bracelet wrapped around her bouquet and wore her sister-in-law's veil. Elise's wedding was family affair with everyone pitching in to make the big day perfect. Her brother and sister-in-law did all of the bouquets, boutonnieres, and flower arrangements. Elise's mother made the gorgeous cake, many of the desserts at the reception and the wedding favors of homemade peach or strawberry jam. It was a beautiful day!

It was special for us as well...Brock-Allen was the ringbearer. He loved being a part of Ms. Ewees' big day!

Thank you Bradley and Elise for allowing our family to be a part of your big day!

Blessings, Meg

Wow, its here!  The holidays are upon us and we are in full swing of preparing, cooking, shopping and organizing!  It's amazing that the year has passed so quick and it seems like we still didn't get everything done we wanted to.  

Well, I wanted to take a second to let you know that we have something special going on that I don't normally do.  We are opening our schedule up a little to take on a couple of portrait sessions for the end of the year as well as next year.  Normally I shoot only weddings but recently I wanted to expand a little.  If you want to have a session done of your family, or you have a current or upcoming high school senior in the house, this is your time to go ahead and check it off your list and save a little.  With that said, I wanted to extend this opportunity to you to schedule a session with us and in doing so we will give you a gift of $100 print credit. 

We are doing this in conjunction with Shop Small Business Saturday because I believe strongly in the concept of shopping small businesses.  I'm only going to run this opportunity through this weekend (Friday-Monday) or 20 slots, whichever comes first.  If you want to check this off your list, contact us and we can get you on the way to having great portraits.   

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Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!!!

Wes

Ceremony: Sorrell Chapel (Troy University)

Reception: Stadium Club

Catering: Sodexo Catering

Makeup Artist: Captivating Glances Salon

Floral Designer: John Downing

Venue: Mountain Top Inn (Pine Mountain, GA)

Cake Artist:  Jean Carlton (Bride's Mother)

Floral Designer: The Petal Pusher

Caterer: Tara Messer (Roger's BBQ: Lagrange, ga)