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Wedding – Allison & Scott

Melinda Ledsome — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:33:14 +0000

Allison & Scott were married outside on the deck of the beautiful Spinelli’s Vistro & Country Inn in Boerne, Tx. The weather was gorgeous and we even had a rainbow right before dusk! The kids were adorable at this wedding!

The reception was held inside on the second floor and was a lovely venue with dark paneling, big windows and colorful art! The guest loved the food (especially the shrimp appetizers)!

I was shooting with Eric of Downtown Imagery for this wedding and got the honor to be in with Allison while she was getting ready. This was a great fun couple and we wish the best in starting out their new life!

OpLove – July 09

Melinda Ledsome — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0000

I met up with Lori on a beautiful morning at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens. We were meeting up to do a photo shoot of her to send off to her deployed husband.

Lori is such a beautiful girl with a cute sweet personality… he is one lucky soldier!!

Wedding – Stephanie & Valentin

Melinda Ledsome — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:40:00 +0000

Stephanie, Valentin & Family live up in the DFW area, but got married last weekend at the beautiful historic Travis Park United Methodist Church in downtown San Antonio. I have driven by this church many times, but this was my first time inside. The Bride’s getting ready area was complete with a whole wall of floor-to-ceiling mirrors and chandeliers! Gorgeous! While we were in the beautiful room- the boys were getting ready in the children’s nursery room… heehee They didn’t mind though.. in fact we have proof of them playing with the toys and shooting hoops from the floor.

What a great group!

After the ceremony officiated by Valentin’s Father, the Bride & Groom were whisked away in a beautiful white classic Bentley while the wedding party went to the reception in stretch-hummer style! While they rode around the the stocked hummer limo, we followed the Bentley over to the McNay for some after-wedding photos of the adorable new couple. Unfortunately with older.. umm I mean “classic” cars.. there can be issues. As the driver found out when he left the car running while we took off for photos. We came back to find the hood steaming and a big puddle of water under the car!

The driver was great! Placed one call and they had another ride there in about 10 minutes to whisk the couple off to their perfectly PINK reception at the Pearl Stables (former home of the Pearl Beer Brewery).

The new Mr & Mrs then made their entrance though a Marine Arch (complete with sword swat!). The location was great, the decorations beautiful, the food delicious, the band live, and the DJ rockin’!

Was a good night….

OpLove – Huerta

Melinda Ledsome — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:55:00 +0000

I received a call from a rushed sister on a Tuesday afternoon. Her big brother is in the Army and was being deployed to the desert that Saturday. She had just found out about the Operation Love Reunited (OpLove) program and wanted to know if I could manage to get some photos of her brother Amedeaus and the family before he left.

Well – how could I say no!

We met up at Elmendorf Lake Park (right behind OLLU) Thursday evening and grabbed as many shots as could.

Amadeaus – Army strong… Army proud

The Family

All the siblings

With the sisters

With the brothers

Little brothers always look up to the big brothers

Even the littlest of the brothers

Operation Love ReUnited – 9 Feb 2008

Melinda Ledsome — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:49:00 +0000

On Saturday February 9th I had the honor of my first Operation Love ReUnited

photo shoot.

If you’re not familiar with the organazition, photographers volunteer our time and creativity to capture precious memories of the families of deployed service members. We then send (at no charge) a book of the photos to the deployed spouse.

I signed up for this since many moons ago I was a military wife and know how hard it was for him to be away for any lengths of time. Being a civil servent here on Lackland and dealing with airmen of all ages and ranks and knowing what they sacrifice on a daily basis it just felt right!

Here is the slideshow I made from the photos for the family:

Here are a few of the photos from that session.