We have been dying to show you Jessica and Jason’s wedding that we photographed back in February!  We just had to wait until the press came out with it first and it’s finally here!  We had expected a February wedding to be freezing but in a total fluke, it warmed up to something like the 60’s for their wedding day and the weather was sublime.  CJ’s Off the Square was the perfect place for this intimate wedding and Amy and her crew were spectacular hosts!  It was such a sweet, laid-back wedding with family and close friends.     

Sean and I have not exactly been the best at finding time to submit to magazines which is why it was so nice to have Jessica’s lovely publicist do it for us! :o)  We’re super excited to have their wedding featured in this season’s In Style Weddings!  You can find them in the “Celebrity Weddings” section.  We’ll be getting more from their day up soon but for now, go pick up a copy of In Style and check them out! 

On a side note, many of you have seen the feature already and sent us the sweetest emails.  Thank you so much for sharing in our excitement over our first published work! :o)

– Mel and Sean

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a closer look…

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Everybody who knows us is more than aware of how insanely busy we’ve been for the past two years. Our business was fairly successful from the start, but a couple of years ago it absolutely exploded, for which we thank all of our absolutely fantastic clients. It’s been a lot of work staying on top of things, but what nobody knew is that in addition, we’ve also been working hard so we could get ahead of the game and slow things down enough so that we could start our family!

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It’s true — the McLellan household will soon be a party of three! We could not be more thrilled!

It seems like everybody has a strong feeling about babies and their gender, but we have absolutely no idea either way! So we decided to have some fun with this–Let’s see just how psychic our blog readers are. I’ve made a poll that I’m posting below… cast your vote so we can easily keep a running total. As soon as you vote on the poll, leave a comment in the comment box with your prediction. Be sure to leave your email address along with your comment. We will be doing a drawing for a $10 iTunes gift card from everyone who guesses correctly. On top of that, we are also going to donate $1 to St. Jude Children’s Hospital for every comment that is left on this post before the end of the month.




Thank you so much for participating–we’re so happy to be able to share our excitement with all of you in blogland, and St. Jude is an awesome organization to support as well!- Sean and Mel

We hit 1000 comments over the weekend. WOW! Thanks you guys! Your kind words and encouragement are so appreciated! It’s silly maybe, but your comments totally make our day and we love reading them each and every time! We really do have the best blog readers EVER.

Olivia of Olivia Leigh Photographie in Chicago put us over the 1000 mark. Olivia, we’ll be in touch soon to find out your favorite restaurant so that we can send a $50 gift card your way; or if you’re down this way sometime soon, we would love to take you out to dinner in person. :o)

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Of course, no post about our blog commenters would be complete without mentioning the lovely Baxters of Ohana Photography. Dating all the way back to well into our old blog, if David and Kim have missed commenting on even one of our posts, it has not been many! We always look forward to hearing from them and we feel like we have close friends on the other side country, even though we’ve yet to meet. :o) I’ve seen these guys mentioned on other photographer blogs as well so I can only imagine that they must devote a pretty big portion of each day to uplifting fellow photographers. You guys are amazing! As a token of our most heartfelt thanks, we would love to gift you…  ::drumroll:: … a McLellan style portrait session!

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Thank you, and thank you again to everyone who comments here or just swings by to take a look! We are so completely grateful!

Hugs!

Sean and Mel