It’s no secret that when small businesses in New Mexico come together magic happens. We, your dutiful Perfect Wedding Guide team, have seen it with our own eyes time and time again. From local styled shoots straight from heaven, to real weddings that make large-scale celebrations seem effortless, to the all-out fantastical displays resurrected from […]
White Sands Elopement with Matt Blasing Photography
While the white hot heat of a New Mexican summer might have some of your eyes trained on the impending autumn, we’re not quite finished with this season yet! With weddings every weekend, sunshine for days, and the occasional light afternoon rain, it’s no small wonder why summer weddings in New Mexico are such a […]
The 3 Main Benefits of Eloping
No, the New Mexico Perfect Wedding Guide team has not been kidnapped. It’s still us, the same love-obsessed locals whose entire lives revolve around weddings! We bet you never thought we’d be advocating against having a wedding, right? We didn’t either. When it comes down to it though, we’re not choosing elopements over weddings, and […]
Intimate Elegance: Real New Mexican Wedding with Maura Jane Photography
Tori and Sean were one of those couples who didn’t need to be told when to hold each other, or when to kiss. They were naturally so affectionate, all we had to do was stand back and capture it. Maura, Maura Jane Photography It’s no secret that we’re spoiled here in New Mexico when it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Toby + Dan’s Intimate Santa Fe Wedding [with Kayla Kitts Photography!]
I’d like to say that fate put these two in the same place at the right time. They met in St Louis, half a world away from Toby’s home. And there in that city was Dan – and they say they knew right away that it was something special. Kayla, Kayla Kitts Photography If you […]
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 […]