{"id":656,"date":"2010-01-17T22:12:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T03:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2010-01-18T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:25:55","slug":"melissa-bridal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/melissa-bridal\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa: Bridal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the newly redesigned blog! Now with 46% more picture-y goodness! (Seriously, I did the math.) If you haven&#8217;t dropped by <a title=\"Lumos Studio: South Carolina Wedding Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\">our homepage<\/a> lately, that&#8217;s also gotten a facelift, so you might want to <a title=\"Lumos Studio: South Carolina Wedding Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\">check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty exciting to have two brides to share with you in two weeks. Melissa <em>also<\/em> got married last Saturday, but since Wendy and I were in Greenwood photographing Leah and Greg&#8217;s wedding and Melissa was down in Florida, getting hitched to Jon, we didn&#8217;t get to spend the day with her. Fortunately, she asked us to photograph her for her bridal portrait, so we got a sneak peek at just how beautiful she was going to be on her wedding day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-035-Edit.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[g656]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-659\" title=\"Bride against red wall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-035-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-035-Edit.jpg 950w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-035-Edit-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-035-Edit-730x486.jpg 730w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-035-Edit-590x393.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-044-Edit.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[g656]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-662\" style=\"border: 10px solid black;\" title=\"Bride in her tiara and veil \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-044-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-044-Edit.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-044-Edit-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melissa told me that she and Jon were getting married in a swamp in Florida. I&#8217;m still not sure how literally to take that, but nonetheless we figured it would be a good idea to reflect the outdoors in Melissa&#8217;s bridal shoot, so we headed down to <a title=\"Sesquicentennial State Park\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southcarolinaparks.com\/park-finder\/state-park\/469.aspx\">Sesquicentennial State Park<\/a>, where there was still some beautiful fall foliage on the trees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-019-Edit.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[g656]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-658\" style=\"border: 10px solid black;\" title=\"Bride in the woods\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-019-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-019-Edit.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-019-Edit-480x600.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-019-Edit-590x737.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Of course, we didn&#8217;t just stick this bride out in the woodsand make her stand around &#8211;we also gave her a chance to sit down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_4390-Edit.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[g656]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-657\" style=\"border: 10px solid black;\" title=\"Bride on blue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_4390-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_4390-Edit.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_4390-Edit-480x600.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_4390-Edit-590x737.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;and generally be gorgeous while the sun set behind her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-066-Edit.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[g656]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-660\" title=\"Bride at sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-066-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-066-Edit.jpg 950w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-066-Edit-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-066-Edit-730x486.jpg 730w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-066-Edit-590x393.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yup. She&#8217;s barefoot. We seem to attract that kind of bride. Thank goodness!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Finally, as the sun went down, we decided to have a little more fun with a bunch of balloons we brought along just for the occasion. They didn&#8217;t carry Melissa away cartoon-fashion which was, on the one hand, a bit of a disappointment, but on the other, kept me from having to explain to Jon why his finac\u00c3\u00a9e was floating over the city of Columbia in her wedding dress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-081-Edit.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[g656]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-661\" style=\"border: 10px solid black;\" title=\"Bride with white balloons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-081-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-081-Edit.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.lumosstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Melissa_bridal-081-Edit-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jon and Melissa, we hope marriage is as magnificent for you as it has been for us. You&#8217;ve both found someone very special!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To everybody else, check back later in the week for adorable children and next week for Leah and Greg&#8217;s teasers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the newly redesigned blog! Now with 46% more picture-y goodness! (Seriously, I did the math.) If you haven&#8217;t dropped by our homepage lately, that&#8217;s also gotten a facelift, so you might want to check it out. It&#8217;s pretty exciting to have two brides to share with you in two weeks. 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