Jack and Ruby Photography by Kara Wieler and Becky Radtke

Krysten and Luke booked us for some 2 year anniversary photos, it had rained cats and dogs on their wedding day and they were not able to get any pictures outside so we knew we wanted to make this shoot EXTRA special for them.  In our first brainstorming emails with Krysten she sent us a link to a YouTube video of the Owl City song “Hot Air Balloon” and said she and Luke loved this song.  With their song as inspiration, our wheels started turning.  What could we do that was fun and cute like the song and how do we get a hot air balloon?  After a lot of brainstorming and a few diagrams we decided we would make the hot air balloon.  This was our big DIY project for the shoot and thankfully we had some talented help!  Kara’s wonderfully crafty sister who puts Martha Stewart to shame constructed the basket of the balloon for us and we assembled the whole thing once we got to the site.  Thanks Kendra!  We were thisclose to having a problem when the basked didn’t fit into Kara’s vehicle, but lucky for us Kara’s other lovely sister delivered it to the site for us in her van, kids in tow (who gave up their afternoon at the wading pool for us!)  Thanks Kim!

Once the hot air balloon “landed” we headed into some trees for a picnic and some snuggles and then took a walk in the countryside to enjoy the sunset. These two are beyond sweet and all the love between them made our job so easy! You can’t go wrong with a couple this cute in front of your camera!!!

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Being natural light photographers we spend most of the days leading up to a shoot checking the weather.  We often wish we could predict what the sky was going to do, and the hourly forecast is rarely accurate.  Yesterday was no exception.  From Friday already we were texting with Ranae, guessing at what the weather would do, and trying to come up with a back up plan.  Saturday arrived and still the forecast was not looking promising.  It was so iffy, and we were unsure of what to do.  We really wanted to go ahead with the shoot, but didn’t want to have everyone drive out just for it to be cancelled.  Ranae and Elliot were on board for just going for it and hoping for the best.  We decided to meet earlier than the 6:30 plan.  Just as we all arrived it started to rain.  We all waited it out in our cars, and, funny enough, the rain stopped at 6:25… right before our original start time!

We had a lovely evening with these two.  We can’t wait to show you more!!!

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Just a little tease at what we were up to yesterday with Lee and Jill!  Are these two gorgeous or what??

We had a great day with them, their wedding party, the boys from Paperback Films and the lovely ladies of Soiree Event Planning.

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