Hi my name is Melanie Nashan, I am the owner of montanaweddingguide.com (Montana Wedding Guide) and Nashan Photographers. I have been shooting weddings in Montana since 1991 and love my job and living in this gorgeous state. Over the years we have worked with hundreds of brides who have been married in Montana, most of them are planning their first wedding, some brides live in state and others who are planning a destination wedding, and find the process overwhelming. I try to always offer my advice and recommend vendors because I know how many decisions have to be made in order to plan a beautiful wedding and empathize with the idea of doing it for the first time.

So last year I started thinking of creating a wedding planning site. Over the last year everyone in my office at Nashan Photographers has been talking about the idea to create an online Montana wedding guide that would help make planning a wedding easier for Montana brides. In our minds we wanted a site that would offer the following services:

• a variety of links to various vendors that work with brides in Montana




• their expert advice that would make planning a Montana wedding easy




• photographs of weddings in Montana that give the feeling of our beautiful state




• ideas of wedding details that a bride planning a wedding in Montana might want to use




• a web page that is contemporary and pretty to be on




• a blog that would be updated often that would give an insight into the various experiences we have had at our Montana weddings

So at the beginning of May montanaweddingguide.com went live. It has been a large undertaking and has required countless hours of work by Cindy, Chieko, Carrie and myself. I am very excited about the prospects of our site growing and becoming an integral part of any bride planning a wedding in Montana.

If you are a bride or a vendor and have any questions or suggestions please leave a comment on the blog. I am always open to new ideas and trying to make the page more useful to everyone involved.

Thank you to everyone who has worked hard to create the site and to my friends and vendors who have agreed to advertise on montanaweddingguide.com (Montana Wedding Guide) during it's infancy. Your support is greatly appreciated!!!!