Once you’re engaged your whole world becomes this amazing never ending list of things to do. On any giving day at any giving time there is something to do, someone to call, money to be saved, an asshole to stress you out, something you missed, a detail that turns out a thousand times better than expected and the list goes on and on. Since we already knew that there were a lot of things we couldn’t do right away I tackled the list from the fun factor and what could be more fun than a photo shoot?!?!

Booking a photographer (reality check):

Since I am in the industry and know more than enough people I thought how hard could it really be to have someone throw me a bone and do some quality photos for cheap? I picked up the phone and started my calls from top favorites to medium. All seemed eager and excited to shoot but all wanted $600 to $2000 dollars. Hello, excuse me remember me? yes me, you know me?!?! Hahaha, come to find out most of my photographer “friends” are booked months in advance or are starving artist, and I am a bride on a budget. So since it seemed that wasn’t going to work, I started to look up some old contacts on Oahu through my model mayhem portfolio (we were going to be in Oahu in a few weeks and could surely make time for a photo shoot). While on model mayhem I was going through my contacts and remembered a local photographer that had reached out to me a few months prior to do a shoot. Looking through his portfolio I quickly realized that he was not only very talented but a very talented wedding photographer. I quickly sent him an e-mailed and kept my fingers crossed for the response I wanted.

Meet Warrick Price at Warrick Price Photography:

Warrick was more than we could have ever asked for. He was professional and fun and had a ton of ideas. He wasn’t looking for money and worked with us for TFP (trade for photo) meaning he would give us the rights to the photos but he was also allowed to use them for his portfolio & websites. We set up the shoot at Big Beach (the place of our beautiful engagement) for that Sunday; we were so excited everything was coming together perfectly!

We did our shoot on Sunday November 27th (8 days after our engagement) and the love was radiating out of every ounce of us. Falling in love again and again is probably one of the most beautiful things this crazy world has to offer. Warrick was amazing and had us out there for over 4 hours. He took over 1,000 shots and we laughed the whole time. By the end of the shoot we hired him as our full time photographer for our wedding day. We were so impressed with how genuine, hard working, and honest he was. His attention to detail was immaculate and we both left feeling like we were on top of the world ~