In our modern world of digital spaces, instant gratification, and an overwhelmingly vast number of options to choose from when it comes to buying almost anything, the monotony and speed can become, well, a bit overwhelming sometimes. We, New Mexico’s Perfect Wedding Guide team, are lucky enough that we get to slow down, spend time with small, local businesses, and really get to know our community. Frankly, that’s one of the most remarkable and fulfilling parts of being here at our home base in Albuquerque.
It comes as no surprise too, that the desire for local, handcrafted, made-with-love goods and services continues to grow outside of our team as well. There’s an undeniable richness of feeling like you belong somewhere, having a community, and knowing the people who make your food and grow your flowers. The quotidian nature of this relationship transcends your everyday decisions and quality of life though, especially when it comes to events of particular importance, like your wedding day.
Having a foundation of trust with the people and businesses you choose to work with makes the months, weeks, and days approaching your wedding full of excitement, not apprehension. So when we found Europa, a new bakery slash wedding venue slash floral farm slash fantastical fairy farm wonderland in Los Lunas, we were over the moon. Founded on the principles of European communities — tight-knit, rich with culture, and deeply supportive — Europa is the homegrown, local, operated-with-love wedding businesses of our dreams.
Enveloped in open fields more akin to an Irish countryside than just a few minutes outside of Albuquerque’s bustling noise, coming to Europa is like taking a breath of fresh air — literally and figuratively. Organic crops and blooming wildflowers polka-dot the delicate landscape and contribute to Europa’s overall charm and services. With three venue spaces to choose from, farm-fresh food available daily and for wedding catering, and those wildflowers easily made into unforgettable, perfectly balanced bouquets and arrangements — having Europa on your wedding-day team is like having Cinderella’s enchanted field mice as your support system, fluttering about and making magic from thin air. (Only much more sanitary, of course.)
The creative forces behind Europa are doing, quite simply, what they love to do. We, and now you too, just happen to be lucky enough to enjoy the outcome of their passion-driven dedication to experiential dining and living. To book Europa for your wedding, you can contact their team here.
