Operation Wedding Do-Over

Dana Champion couldn't imagine anything worse. Not one of the photographs from her wedding survived. Gone were the images of the Hartselle woman with her parents, her bridesmaids and, most importantly, her husband, David Champion — accidentally deleted by the wedding photographer.

"We don't have a single professional photo from the wedding," Champion said. "We will celebrate our fifth anniversary this year and we had planned to recreate the images this fall. That changed when one of my friends sent me a Facebook post about a wedding competition. It was perfect."

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