It was just such an awesome pleasure for us to meet Brandon and Rachel in Hawaii. They are such an amazing couple. Full of life. Fun to be around. Extremely in love. Cool as all get out. They’re just beautiful people inside and out. I just feel like we became fast friends with them and we miss them like crazy already. Can’t believe they’re 11 hours (flying time) away. It’s just crazy to think about. Oh man… I’m going to quit writing this paragraph because it’s just making me wish I had a time machine to travel back two weeks.
Meet Brandon. He is our friend Leigh’s nephew and moved to Hawaii about a year ago to become the golf pro at the Mauna Kea golf resort.
Meet Rachel. She’s the super sweet girl who decided to move half way around the world because of love. Someone should write a book (or movie) about these two.
I was absolutely thrilled they wanted me to photograph them. Two beautiful people in one the most beautiful places on earth? Sign me up. They were awesome in front of the camera and I just loved working with them. We had so much fun on this photoshoot that I was on an emotional high for the longest time!
No more talking! Photos! Check these two out!
We found a black sand beach! They were watching a sea turtle bob his head up and down out of the ocean.
Love these trees! Love this photo!
Side note: I had so much trouble picking out my favorite images to blog. Seriously… every single photo is amazing with these two in it!
Laying in a comfortable bed of corral rock.
I just want to apologize to Brandon and Rachel. I’m from Tennessee. I had NO idea how painful it was to get your jeans full of sand. It’s like walking around wearing sandpaper… literally! But you’ve got to admit though… these pics made it totally worth it! Am I not right!?
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How amazing is this couple!? I just want to comment on ALL of the photos above but will just let the pics speak for themselves.
Brandon and Rachel: It was just so amazing meeting you guys. Cannot express to you how much I loved working with you two. Heather and I want to see you both again so badly! We consider you our newest friends!
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Steve Hamaker - I know I should be commenting on how great these photos are (which they are, of course), but I want to be a geeky designer instead and rave about the use of your logo, Rich. I love how you take the time to place it in different parts of each photo rather than just slap it in the bottom right-hand corner. Nice touch!!
Ben Finch - Rich… I’m having serious envy after viewing this post. You rocked it my friend! You did such a great job of shooting this location & displaying the natural interaction between this gorgeous couple. There’s not a single image that I don’t highly enjoy!
Nicole - these are HOT! I love the running ones!
Jamie Weiss - The beach ones are beautiful, but I love the one with the funky trees!
Kaili - Rachel….and Brandon…..you look fabulous and oh so in love! I LOVE LOVE LOVE every single picture and cant wait for you to come back in March for the big day:) Love to both of you!
Melinda Nicodemus - loveeee the laying in the coral rocks one!! They are all great!
Coventry Myers - Wow!!! Rich!! Beautiful!!!
Mom - Stunning! Great stuff, Rich! What a fun couple! You really captured their personalities.
kellie - Seriously Awesome Rich!!
Pleasant Vonnoh - AWESOME!!!!!
Brandon and Rachel - We can’t stop looking at these… We are trying so hard to pick our few favorites, but we can’t!!! They are all so freakin amazing. Rich you are seriously an amazing person with some of the most creative ideas ever. We are so amazed by your talent and are so blessed to have been able to have you photograph us! We will never be able to thank you enough!!!
Brandon and Rachel - And yes….. The gross sandy wet jeans were sooooooo worth it!!!
Brandon and Rachel - Rich and Leslie,
AMAZING!!!!!!!! Rachel and I are sitting here in shock at how great these photo’s are…. We got the chills looking through these and every time that we scrolled down we continued to change our “favorite” picture…. By the end we had like 12 favorite pictures. We can’t thank y’all enough for doing these for us. They are so freakin awesome!!!! We can’t wait to see more… Our families are going to be blown away when we share these with them… The only bad part about viewing these is that it makes us miss y’all sooooooooo much more!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please come back!!!!!!!!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leslie Janous - WOW WOW WOW!!! Rich!!! These are beyond amazing! I literally have chills! You captured the beauty, the love, the happiness…these are stunning!