COMMUNITY OVER COMPETITION: WCNM’S SPEED CONNECTING RECAP

This past spring, on a rainy evening in Santa Fe, something magical happened. One by one, small business owners and wedding professionals hurried into the warm, glowing entrance of Four Seasons Rancho Encantado — one of New Mexico’s very favorite wedding ceremony venues. Shaking off the few droplets that still clung to their light jackets […]

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YOU, BEAUTIFULLY: A SA.LON SANTA FE

It’s probably pretty clear that we, your WCNM team here in New Mexico, have been around the wedding block a few times by now. Mishaps and magic, ultra-trendy or nuevo-classic, deep downtown or deep in the forest — we’ve seen it all from our little perch between wedding businesses and local, engaged couples. So, since […]

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7 VENUES FOR YOUR MICRO WEDDING IN NEW MEXICO

If you’re here in New Mexico with us and not living under a rock, then you’ve probably heard the news — our state is slowly opening back up! With the vaccine becoming more widely available, there’s a definite spike in the hope here in our community, but we’re trying to keep from getting carried away […]

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WEDDING COLLECTIVE NEWS: WE’RE BUSTING OUT OF THE SEAMS!

As the year comes to an end, we’re not slowing down when it comes to helping the local wedding community connect with local engaged couples. We’re full of big ideas and big plans – and you’re about to get the inside scoop on some of them. See ya later, 2020, and hello 2021! This season is […]

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You’re Engaged, Now What? A Comprehensive Guide on Planning Your Wedding

Your partner popped the big question and you said yes–congratulations! Although the excitement of your engagement has your stomach filled with butterflies and you wish you could hold onto these perfect and stress-free moments forever, you are probably starting to wonder when the chaos of wedding planning is going to begin. More importantly, you’re probably […]

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Let’s Get Planning! 5 Local Wedding Planners Who Will Get You on Track

One of our favorite things about working here at Perfect Wedding Guide is that we get to see so many incredible weddings everyday. From farmhouse chic winter weddings, to vibrant pink floral wonderlands in the spring, we’ve seen some of the most perfect weddings out there– and the exciting part is, it doesn’t end there! […]

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7 Wedding Venues Outside the City

As much as we love the hustle and bustle of our vibrant city here in the southwest, we can’t lie… Taking a step back from the noise and enjoying New Mexico’s myriad of landscapes is one of our favorite parts of living in such a wild state. The mountains and mesas, rivers and roving fields, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Black Swan Events: For When Your Wedding Decor Simply Must Dazzle

Black Swan stepped up to the plate and handled everything for an extremely over scheduled bride and groom[…]. Everything was absolutely beautiful down to the last detail. Gabriel, local groom That’s the simple reality of weddings. Brides, grooms, fiancés — they’re all just lovely titles we add to describe real, normal human beings. These human […]

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