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Photos: Laura Eddy Sourdough How-To | Making a Home with Melanie View my Sourdough essentials list here! We were visiting friends in Oklahoma City a few weeks after our wedding when I had homemade sourdough bread for the first time. I started asking a million questions of Dylan. How he learned, who he learned from, […]

Maternity photos from Laura Eddy Photography Ruthie’s Home Birth Story | Part 1 | External Cephalic Version – ECV Success Story Experience I’ll start this off by saying that birth stories are a funny thing. I don’t know when it became normal to type out and share such an intimate and personal experience for the […]

Best of 2020 | Melanie Foster Photography | Bartlesville OK Photographer Oh boy. A best of blog almost 4 months into the. year? Haha this is long overdue. I wasn’t even going to put this post together, until our wedding photographer did her 2020 recap (that we are included in!) and it was the kick […]

Happy 2021!!! We had a whirlwind of a holiday season…especially with it being our first one married! After quick trips to Branson, MO with the Russell side and Plano, Texas for my family’s Christmas, we jetted off (after about 7 flight delays!) to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida with some of our best friends to ring […]

The Grand Ivory Wedding – The Russells – Our Favorite Moments It’s my first blog as Melanie Russell!!!!! How fun is that!? We took a much needed hiatus for the month of September to celebrate all things wedding & honeymoon (and home renovation!) but I am glad to be back to share some of the […]

This is a BIG WEEK! A few weeks ago, we announced that Melanie Foster Photography is moving to Bartlesville! Today, we’re letting you in on ANOTHER secret we’ve been keeping… As of this Friday, I will officially be a full-time photographer! For SEVEN YEARS, I’ve dreamt about this day! And even getting to announce it […]