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  • hello...i'm melissa. i'm a creative portrait and wedding photographer
    from the midwest. i am the sole owner and main photographer at melissa copeland photography. i love my husband, my dogs, cheese, and my job.

    this blog will showcase most of my current work and the daily in's and out's of my life.

2012 Winter Bridal Showcase at St. Mary’s

We attended the Winter Bridal Showcase at St. Mary’s for the third year in a row and this year was definitely our most successful.  We had TONS of great potential brides stop by the booth and over the past few weeks we’ve been busy meeting with them at our studio and getting a chance to get to know more about them.

This was definitely my favorite set up we have done and I feel like out of ALL the booths we’ve did over the past 3 years this was definitely the one that showcased our work and our brand the best.

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Thanks to anyone who stopped by our booth and said hi and thanks to ALL the brides who came by just to tell me how much they loved my booth. :o)  It means SO much to me!  We work really hard to be different and to stand out among the competition and it’s great hearing that we are doing such a great job.  I’m already planning our booth for 2013!! xoxo

2012 Wabash Valley Winter Bridal Showcase


If you are a bride and you’re still in the planning stages of your wedding OR you know someone who is…be sure to mark your calendar for this weekends Bridal Showcase at St. Marys.  This will be our third consecutive year of participating in this bridal show and we are so excited to show off some great photos from our 2011 wedding season.  Each year we try and change up our bridal show booth and this year is no different. :o)

Here is our booth from the 2010 Winter Bridal Showcase.
This was our first booth and it was definitely a great learning experience. LOL We learned that the bridal show was definitely way too fast pace for anyone to actually come into our booth to sit down and look thru the albums. The brides would rather just have everything on a table where they can easily access it as they walk thru. So, while the “living room” set up was super cute, it just wasn’t practicable.

Here is the set up we decided on for the 2011 Winter Bridal Showcase.
We had a much better location and was able to access electricity so we brought along a tv and hooked my laptop up to it to show off some of my favorite photos from the past year. I loved this set up and thought it worked out really nice. The only downfall was that the booth seemed very squished because you are so close the vendors on each side of you. So we decided when we did the 2012 Winter Bridal Showcase we would do a double booth to give us much more room.

I’m really looking forward to showing off our 2012 Winter Bridal Showcase booth design. We’ve actually had this design in our head for a couple years after seeing a photographer from Texas do something similar but because we’ve never had a double booth, we just didn’t have the room. So i’m definitely looking forward to showing it off and showing off all of our favorite engagement and wedding shots from 2012.

We still have 6 tickets left for the bridal show so if you are interested in attending the show and would like to purchase a ticket from me please contact me. If you purchase them in advance or pre-register online in advance your admission fee will only be $10 for both days. However, if you wait to purchase a ticket the day of the bridal shows the admission fee is $15.

This is a GREAT bridal show and in my opinion the best one all year in the Wabash Valley. I’ve heard we will have over 50 different wedding vendors at the show and expect this to be one of the largest shows in the area. If you have any questions about the show, i’m happy to help! Just email me! :o) And…be sure to stop by my booth if you are at the show. I’d love to meet you!

Kelsey and Jarrod :: Trash the Dress

I’m sure you guys recognize Kelsey and Jarrod by now.  Last fall I shot their country themed engagement session and this past May I photographed their Wedding in Marshall, Illinois.  Then a couple months after their session Kelsey contacted me about wanting to shoot a Trash the Dress session.  I was so thrilled to hear from her.  I had been wanting to shoot a trash the dress session but had been so busy with weddings I just didn’t have the time to contact any brides to see if anyone was interested.  So we scheduled the session at their home, which was the same location we shot their engagement session, and we planned it for a warm fall morning.  The light was perfect and Kelsey and Jarrod looked stunning as usual. :o)

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Kelsey you are BEAUTIFUL!!  I have loved photographing you over the past year and I look forward to hopefully watching your family grow in the future. :o) xoxo

Engaged :: Randall and Ashleigh | Fowler Park Engagement Session

I got an email from Ashleigh a couple of months ago about doing her engagement session.  She was in sort of a predicament because they actually live near Lousiville and they really wanted their engagement session at Fowler Park.  So…they were either going to have to hire a local photographer to drive to Fowler Park OR find someone up here.  Luckily for me… they found me! :o)  I had SO MUCH FUN!! Randall was probably the most excited and happy guy during any engagement session and the fact that Ashleigh had so many ideas for some fun photos….ahh! It was great!  Enjoy some of my favorites!

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To my Pepsi and Crush Drinkers :: I had so much fun with you guys!  I’m so happy that you guys love your photos as much as I do!!  Congrats on the engagement!! xoxo

Senior :: Sheridan N. | Sullivan High School

Sheridan is a 2012 senior at Sullivan High School and she is about the cutest thing i’ve ever seen! haha  She was SO MUCH fun to photograph… She had tons of ideas and was up for anything!  Enjoy some of my favorites from her session.

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Sheridan :: I hope you have a BLAST the rest of your senior year and I hope I get to photograph you again in the future.  You are beautiful and a total natural in front of the camera! xoxo