For visitors or recent transplants to New Mexico, country might not be the first adjective you’d reach for to describe the state. For those of us who have had a chance to wander outside of the cities though, the farm and field influence obviously contributes to the eclectic blend of cultures that make New Mexico […]
Carissa + Ben Photography: High Desert Wedding Photography
Photographing weddings is huge. It’s one of the biggest, most expensive, emotional, and meaningful days in most peoples’ lives. The intimacy of the day can be really intimidating, and that’s why we love it. Carissa + Ben Moore, Carissa + Ben Photography Must it be reiterated again, just how much we love our home state? […]
Zero-Waste Wedding: 5 Ways to Get There
If you know anything about your New Mexico Perfect Wedding Guide team, then you know we love two things. One, New Mexico; two, weddings. Which seems pretty obvious, but it really is as simple as that. Only, our love for New Mexico transcends an affection for the rich cultures, venerable mesas and mountains, and traditional […]
3 Tips for Choosing Your Wedding Ring in New Mexico
Here at Perfect Wedding Guide, we try to not make too much of a fuss about any one particular facet of the wedding planning process. Instead, we keep it light to remind engaged couples that, despite the budgets, in-laws, and hundreds of tiny details they’re in the midst of dealing with, it’s all bringing them […]
How to Prepare for a Boudoir Photoshoot
When you boil it down to basics, each wedding is nothing more than a celebration of love. The who, when, where, and what of that love is pretty important for the big day, but all details aside, it comes back to love. Part of what makes this particular kind of love so special that it […]
Flowers & Things: New Mexico’s Go-To Wedding Florist
If you’re into weddings as much as we are — and you probably are, considering you’re on a wedding blog right now — then you probably keep up with local and national trends. If you keep up with local and national trends, then you’ve definitely seen the newest craze with wedding bouquets: moody succulents. Yes, […]
Pizza in Santa Fe AKA The Best Engagement Session Ever
In September of this year, Meghan and Ryan will be married at the Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe. There will be llamas. Llamas, people! Quite frankly, these facts and the photos from their engagement session below are all you really need to know in order to make you fall in love with Meghan and […]
Wedding Invitations: Go Online or Stay Local?
The nicest, most professional people I have ever worked with. This world would be heaven if every company had their level of ethics and customer service. Stefani Every wedding begins with a simple yes. No, we’re not referring to the big yes that usually gets all of the attention. Instead, we’re talking about saying yes […]
Engaged Couples Dish About Wedding Planning in New Mexico
When it comes to planning a wedding in New Mexico, we think its safe to say that we might be getting pretty close to expert status. After all, we have been connecting engaged couples with the local wedding professionals who serve them for over 10 years! But even with a decade of living vicariously through wedding […]
8 Local Wedding Businesses Run by Husband + Wife Teams
We can’t lie. As New Mexico’s Perfect Wedding Guide team, we get to be on the forefront of a whole lot of magic coming from our community. From whimsical winter weddings, to sensational spring styled shoots, to first-time collaborations between wedding professionals, to proposal stories that would make anyone tear up — it’s almost too […]