Photo courtesy of La Fonda on the Plaza
Wedding planners
Jessie Baca
You can get some idea of Jessie Baca’s energy level from the headline on her website’s homepage: “hello, high fives, holy matrimony!” She claims to be a whizz with a glue gun.
Felicia Ponca/Art of Celebration
A native of Santa Fe, Felicia Ponca wants you to return home from your destination wedding with the same love for New Mexico’s sunsets, landscapes, and traditions that she has.
Photography
Twin Lens
A dynamic duo of a married couple, Kitty and Craig Fritz’s award-winning wedding photography has a strong documentary approach that points to their background in newspaper photography.
Ginger Russell
Shooting weddings in Santa Fe for more than 13 years, Ginger Russell knows the city’s most photogenic backdrops; for proof, peruse her photos of the Loretto Chapel.
Eric Cousiineau Photography
This fine arts and wedding photographer specializes in wedding images that look like – fine art.
InSight Foto
Headed by Babak Dowlatshahi, InSight Foto is an award winning photography and videography studio that has long been a fixture of the Santa Fe wedding scene.
AltF Photography
He helped inspire the Trash the Dress craze, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that John Michael Cooper has an approach to his work that is about as unconventional as wedding photography gets.
Kerry Sherck Photography
Kerry Sherck describes herself as a wedding photojournalist, telling the story of your wedding day through the details that present themselves. She does weddings worldwide, but is based in Santa Fe.
(Attention photographers and wedding couples. If you’d like your work, or your wedding, to appear on the Destination:W website, get in touch at sally@destinatinow.com. Of course we’ll credit all photos and link to the photographer’s site.)
Florist
Margaret Bost
Couples come to her for her creativity and attention to detail.
Andrea Soorikian Design
A fine arts and design background gives her an especially keen eye.
Marisa Peluso/Marisa’s Millefiori
Marisa is a Santa Fe-based world traveler and floral designer who has been in the business for more than three decades.
Artichokes & Pomegranates
Don’t let the name throw you off, Fred Palmer is known for his creative floral arrangements.
Amanda’s Flowers
Amanda’s Flowers offers fresh, easy delivery of wedding arrangements for all budgets. Their site offers advice on seasonal flowers and colors.
Music
Absolute Entertainment
They can arrange every kind of music for every part of your wedding, from rehearsal dinner entertainment, ceremony musicians from classical to Mariachi bands, to their award winning dance band Soulstice Santa Fe, and the Absolute DJs.
Soulstice Santa Fe
Part of the Absolute Entertainment group, Soulstice Santa Fe is a classy & fun dance band playing relevant cross-generational live music that packs the dance floor, MC’s the event, and creates memories for everyone.
Vanilla Pop
These high-energy performers will get everyone on the dance floor, and put on a show at the same time.
Primavera
Look here for live chamber music from the quartet of violinist Carol Hawkins, who has performed at Carnegie Hall.
Abacus Entertainment
Although Abacus is a full service entertainment agency, they are best known for their house band, Tapestry, a high-energy group of 7-10 musicians who can perform in just about any genre.
Los Primos Mariachi Band
Appearing at more than 40 weddings a year, Los Primos can Southwestern flare to every part of your wedding, from the prelude to the reception.
Petra Babankova / Classic Guitar
Czech-born classical guitarist Petra Babankova has a repertoire that ranges from Bach to the Beatles, and performs the kind of background music that will soothe the soul of any wedding crowd.
Officiant
Irene Swain
If you want someone with a great track record, she’s been serving as an officiant in Santa Fe for more than 22 years.
Rita Skelly
Known for her lighthearted touch, Rita Skelly will work with you to design a ceremony from the traditional to the truly unique.
Cake
Maggie Faralla
A former rock and roll press agent, of all things, Maggie is an artist who took a while to discover that her medium is cakes.
A Cake Odyssey
Karyn West specializes in wedding cakes with personality, each expressing something about what makes the couple unique.
Hair and Makeup
Monica Stark
To the benefit of Santa Fe brides, Monica Stark, after a long tenure at Chanel, moved to Northern New Mexico almost a decade ago to marry “the scientist of my dreams.”
Jessica Jung
One of the things that Albuquerque-based Jessica Jung says sets her apart is her training in classic French hairstyling techniques.
Rock, Paper Scissor
Salon owner Melodi Wyss-Feliciano has a passion for hair color, cultivated during the years she spent at Vidal Sassoon.
Wild Hare
Headed by Kristin Taglienti, who has worked for a stylist for 18 years, this Santa Fe salon is dedicated to both timeless and emerging styles.
