We All Love Julie!!

Julie makes taking wedding pictures so much fun...I know from experience! But I'm not the only one that thinks so!

Kristen was one of those brides Julie was destined to work with. She was a bridesmaid in two other weddings Julie photographed and was just fun to work with. Many of the bridesmaids and groomsmen in Kristen and Buster's wedding were also past clients of ours. Kristen was a beautiful bride and her and Buster had a perfect wedding!

Since Julie gets all embarrassed when people tell her how great she is, I thought I'd share this very sweet thank you from Kristen and Buster with everyone!

We Did it Again!!!

The January/February issue of Columbus and the Valley Magazine is out, and like last year...we're in it! The article, "What's New in I Do," features interviews with two of our 2007 brides: Kristen Ogletree and Lauren VanHouten.

Julie's images are throughout the magazine! You can find them in the table of contents and pages 4, 10, 11 and 12. And as if that wasn't enough, we have NINETEEN couples in the 2007 Columbus Weddings center section! You can find Columbus and the Valley at any local bookstore or grocery store (that sells magazines!)

As always, we could not succeed if we did not have the support of our families and our great clients! Thank you all for making 2007 a special year! We hope that 2008 is even better!

Who is Celeste...And Why is She Here?

Two very good questions, I think. Since I would be posting up a storm here on the blog, I thought I would just let my readers (all two of you…) know a little bit more about me. I was born on a stormy night in Fort Knox, KY…Just kidding, I won’t take you that far back.

Here is the brief version: I’m a past bride of Julie’s. We met in 2005 at my Bridal Consultation. Over the course of me planning my wedding, Julie and I became friends and now I’m her Marketing Manager. Taa-daa!! Seriously, after getting to know her and seeing how hard she works, I wanted to do whatever I could to help her business grow, and now I’m part of it!

Here are 10 random facts about me:

1. I have two dogs, Beau and Sammy.
2. I love potatoes.
3. I changed my major approximately 10 times in college before graduating with a degree in Communications.
4. I should have mentioned this in #1, but I also have a hamster, and his name is R. Kelly.
5. I love college football! (Go Dawgs!!)
6. My favorite song of all time is “Stay” by Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories.
7. My husband is my best friend in the whole world.
8. Sleeping=AWESOME!
9. I like to make random lists of things.
10. I like Star Trek. All of them. (Yeah, yeah. I’m a nerd. SO?)

(Julie and Keith don’t know it yet, but they’ll be treating you all to a random 10 later…shhh!)

I also thought since you were getting to know me, I’d show you two of my favorite pictures from my wedding!

This one is my most favorite. The colors are just so bright and it looks like we totally love each other. You can hardly even tell that this is smack dab in the middle of Columbus. It looks like its out on a farm in the country.


This is Joel’s favorite picture. I think it’s just because we’re in the car, and the wedding was over, so he could stop smiling. This is also one of Julie’s favorite images from the day, by the way!

Well, do you know me enough? If not, I can thrill you with the story about the time I sold the most cookies in my Brownie troop…oh, you don’t want to hear that one right now? Okay, fine. We’ll save it for later!

Welcome...

…to our new blog! Julie had an idea (scary thought, I know…) to start a blog to keep our friends and clients informed about what’s going on in the studio. But because she’s the hardest working photographer in the business, she just doesn’t have the time. So, as the JE Hedges Photography Marketing Manager and newest member of the studio's team, the blogging duties seemed like the job for me! I was worried that I couldn't be interesting enough to make people want to read our blog. But, then I remembered what Julie always tells me, "...you're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, Celeste, people like you..." and I was all set!

I’ll be posting frequently, filling you all in on all the fun we have (while working, of course…) at weddings, events and trade shows. You’ll get to see some of our favorite images, and maybe even an image or two of us while we’re goofing off…I mean, while we’re working.

I hope you find the blog fun, entertaining and informative, because that’s what I’m after, here!