No More Models!

hahaha..i love you faithful blog readers! I have received a ba-dillion emails this morning from girls wanting to model in their wedding dresses for me... this is going to be super fun !I have filled all the slots and the shoot will be on March 22nd so stay tuned and thanks SOOOOO much for everyone who contacted me! :) LOVES!

Project time...

Hi everyone! Happy Friday! I am on the hunt for 1 beautiful bride like female...meaning you have a wedding dress...or have access to one... who would be interested in modeling for me for approx. 3 hours or so...I have some new lighting stuff I want to work with and Im looking to check out a few new locations around here so if your interested comment below or you can email me at melissa@melissapepin.com. You'll get super fun pictures and a really fun afternoon out of it...AND we could totally go out for ice cream afterwards! :) Thanks in advanced and I cant wait to see how much fun this is!

Katie and Matt

Meet Katie and Matt! We shot their wedding right before I left for Love Affair..and I mean literally the night before I got out of dodge so it was pure craziness! We had such a fun time at their wedding! I actually found Katie because we had a class together in college and here we are...almost 2 years after we met and we reconnected and had a BLAST at their wedding! Every detail was perfect from the extravagant floral arrangements to the over the top food...to the AWESOME bad...I mean...who plays Queen at a wedding and then follows it up with Ac/Dc??? They were awesome! The families were so much fun and we just love these two...they have a heart for each other and we cant wait to see all of the amazing things Gods going to do in their life and through their marriage. Here are a few of our fav's from that day...

Holy moly Kelly Moore...Clark. :)

Okay....so I get home from Love Affair and I open my inbox and low and behold are all these emails about a picture that Kelly took of me while at love affair...I thought I would post it because..well..i look HOT! Kelly, I dont know how you did it..but you did it! :) I LOVE IT!

OC girls...

I hope this makes the ladies of Love Affair proud! :) Soooo, last night me and some of my friends from Wilmington went to dinner and decided to have a photo shoot out in the middle of the parking lot at their apartment complex. We had fun outfits, crazy hair and make up, and one new mom get back into her wedding dress..it was awesome! We started shooting around 8:45pm and didnt stop til 2:00am..it was nuts. We started out at Lowes, bootlegging a giant reflector like Lauren Clark told me how to do...then we took my 580EX and pocket Wizards...along with the occasional use of one of the girls cars headlights...and we did it up photo shoot style. :) It was a lot of fun and I really like how everything turned out... :) Here are a few of my favs.... Im headed home tomorrow back to Athens and I am SOOOOOOO excited..I miss my husband like crazy...and all my wonderful friends and clients..., so have a good night and see you later!

Wrappin up love affair style...

Well, i cant believe Im saying this but Love Affair is almost over...I am SOOOOOOOO sad!
This has been one of the best investments i have ever made for my business and I am so excited to get home and show myself and everyone else what new and exciting stuff I have planned. if there is anything that I have learned and taken to heart from this workshop its that there is a balance that we all need to maintain in our life...somewhere between chaos and calm ...between rigid and flimsy....between hard and soft..and I am excited to find out where that is for me and what new stuff its going to bring. Here are a few images from yesterdays shooting...we had an incredible difficult day shooting....things just happened to prevent anyone from really shining in theire images...lights wouldnt work..times got mixed up...just a whole bunch of stuff but I think that through it all it really pushed me to be better..and for that Im really happy. :) Tonight is the finale here and the girls have something really secret and surprise-y for us at diner so....I will update later and let ou all know what went down. Have a good night and I will be back soon!

p.s. i finally got my images larger on my blog!!!! So enjoy and forgive me if it takes a while to get them all the same size!

Updates

Okay...so if any of you want to see some pics of what is going on here at the Love Affair take a look at these two blogs to view some pics of us girls in action :) here they are

love affair workshop

lauren clark photography

Images From Love Affair

Im am having such a great time at Love Affair and I wanted to post a few of the super hot images that I took yesterday during on of our shoot sessions. We had some reallllllllly hot an super nice models to work with..and despite the craziness of shooting with what felt like paparazzi ...10 folks+ per model....I got some shots I REALLY love...I will post more this week as it progresses but Im going to nap now..im getting worn out!!!! but this is the best experience I could have asked for to take me to the next level! Thanks everyone...see you soon!

Im HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alrighty...so I arrived and took the ferry to Bald Head Island and HOLY MOLY is it going great! Im sitting here talking with Lauren Clark and talking photography...my life is changing right now. :) hahahahaah I love it!!!!!
Anywho...when I walked into my assigned room and low and behold there is a bathrobe with my name on it and a nice little welcome packet for me..Im so excited about this and I cant wait to see what comes tomorrow....so goodnight and see you tomorrow... :)

p.s. heres my room :)

Going, going....almost gone!!!!!

Alright Ladies and Gentlemen....its finally here and I can NOT believe it! THIS is the weekend I leave town for 7 days to go to the Love Affair Workshop on Bald Head Island off the coast of Wilmington, NC. Im so incredibly excited, stressed, nervous, and anxious to get my stuff together and get out of dodge so that I can hurry back and put in to play all of the amazing things I am going to be learning. I will be able to blog (hopefully...fingers crossed) and I believe I will have limited email access so, check in this week for updates on how things are going at this conference. If you haven't checked out the ladies who are going to be teaching me and 39 of the luckiest ladies on the planet (and yes...there will be people who have come in from other countries for this workshop, HOLY COW!) here they are, dig in to their websites and see what you have to look forward to from me in the future.... I cant wait and I know that God's got something heavy up His sleeve for me and I cant wait for that to be revealed!

They are:

Millie Holloman
Lauren Clark
Kelly Moore Clark
Davina Fear

So tonight I am tediously folding loads of laundry, and prepping for a wedding that I have to shoot tomorrow ...(Katie and Matt tomorrow at 6:30 in Athens, these two are awesome so be on the lookout for pics from their big day soon)....and snuggling up with my husband who I wont see for 7 days!!!!! Thank you soooooo much to those that have been praying for me in the last few weeks, I have felt it immensely and I cant wait to encounter the fruit of your prayers. So if I dont get to blog til next week around this time, you all be safe...contact my office if you need anything, and I will return calls and emails as soon as I can! LOVES!