Melissa Bigner, GulfStream Weddings Division Editorial Director
Melissa Bigner is editorial director of Charleston Weddings magazine and senior editor at Charleston magazine. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has written for Better Homes & Gardens Decorating, Coastal Living,Cottage Living, Southern Accents, Southern Living, flower magazines, and more. The books and custom titles she’s authored for Coastal Living, TLC, HGTV, and Better Homes & Gardens tend toward home decorating and DIY makeovers. As for coffee table fare, she produced, styled, and wrote Southern Bouquets, and happily ate her way through Cool Inside: Hank’s Seafood Restaurant and Served with Style: Peninsula Grill while penning each. A native of Durham, North Carolina, she learned to ski on Beech Mountain, first camped as a grade schooler outside Blowing Rock, and did an Outward Bound stint in the Pisgah National Forest. Today Melissa lives in downtown Charleston, South Carolina with her husband and son and their cats, dogs, and books in a cottage that’s clearly fit to burst.
melissa@charlestonmag.com
