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Live Wedding Painting

by Julianne Mellas

Live Wedding Painting

More Than a Memory.

An Heirloom.

I paint at your wedding celebration as it unfolds, creating museum quality art you’ll treasure for generations.

I'm Julianne Mellas, a live wedding painter specializing in Pacific Northwest celebrations. As your day unfolds, I create a custom painting that captures not just how your wedding looked, but how it feels, transforming your celebration into a timeless work of art.

Unlike photography, which freezes a moment, live painting interprets the emotion, atmosphere, and beauty of your day through an artist's eye. You collaborate on the vision, then watch as your masterpiece comes to life before your guests.

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Why hire a Live Wedding Painter?

A Live Wedding Painter is one of the most unique wedding vendors you could hire. Painters are magicians…we create something beautiful with a blank canvas and some tubes of paint! Art evokes emotion, and as the image unfolds throughout the day, you will get to see the epic results at the end of the day, and get to keep the painting for the rest of your life.

Guests will love watching the painting progress throughout the evening. I will set up my easel somewhere in the reception area, where people are welcome to come up and chat with me as I paint!

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Each painting is unique, designed with YOUR vision in mind, whether you want to focus on the beautiful mountains in Oregon, or the intricate details of your custom decorations you so carefully chose.

I can add your pet, even if they aren’t there that day. Have a special request? Mention that when you reach out to me!

“Julianne is awesome! She was wonderful to work with and very flexible. Julianne set up an area at our wedding to do live guest portraits as souvenirs for our guests. The portraits turned out great, the guests loved interacting with her, and many of the guests have the portraits framed in their homes.”

-Cristina Underwood
My husband and I had such a wonderful experience with Julianne painting our couple’s portrait at our wedding! She was super easy to work with and helped us brainstorm exactly what we wanted for our painting and she brought it to life. She was flexible with what we wanted and even added our pup into our painting! She showed up on time, was very professional, and she worked super hard to have our painting finished before we left to go home out of state a few days later. After our wedding, we had tons of guests tell us how amazing it was to watch Julianne paint during our wedding. It was a huge highlight! If you are thinking of having a live wedding painter at your wedding, I highly recommend using Julianne. She is INCREDIBLE!

Jaclyn Thompson
Julianne’s work is so beautifully authentic. My friends and I had a very special project, and Julianne took it to the next level, we are so thankful!!

Kat Ketterer
Julianne was absolutely wonderful to work with!! She made sure that the background and pose were exactly what we wanted, and was at our venue early to set up and start painting. Our guests LOVED watching her paint, and it was one of the highlights of our wedding! We got so many remarks about what a great touch it was to have a live wedding painter. She got the painting back to us in a very timely manner, and it is a sweet piece to hang in our house as a reminder of our special day. ✨✨

Nicole Hayes
I commissioned Julianne for a special post-wedding day piece - I so wish I would have known about her work when I actually got married!! - She did the most beautiful work of the special day, was timely, communicative, and was super easy to work with! Would definitely recommend her for live wedding painting (what an amazing experience and memento!) or to commission for a custom painting like I did!

Wendy Kirchhoff

My signature work captures the dramatic natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest—from the Cascade Mountains to Oregon's breathtaking vistas. Each commission is tailored to showcase the unique setting of your celebration, whether that's a mountain backdrop, coastal elegance, or intimate garden ceremony.

My prices vary between sizes, customizations, and clients requests, so reach out to me for your curated quote, and let’s get a conversation started! (Prices start at $2600).