Wedding Inspo - Wedding Cakes

If you know our team, you know that wedding cakes hold such a big space in our hearts. Truth be told, we’re downright obsessed with seeing how our couples bring together their unique style with this traditional staple.

Each and every season brings out new cake trends as well as the classic styles we’ve come to absolutely adore over the years. We’ve been crushing so dang hard on all of the funky shag rug cakes, incredible heart-shaped beauties, and those pressed flower darlings, but we’re also major fans of those ever-so-stunning buttercream floral cakes that compliment literally any wedding out there. And the best of all is when we get to witness a perfect blend of a tried and true trend with something brand new (peep that floral cake adorned with custom made jewelry shapes below!).

We’re so dang ready to kick off our 2022 season and see all of those deliciously divine creations every single weekend, bring on all the sugar-coated goodness!

Featured Cake Bakers
Planty Sweet
Maggie’s Cakes
Feathers and Frosting
Chocolate Maven
Figs and Honey Cake Co
Cake Fetish
Toothache Cakery
Simply Sweet by Darci
Sweet Treets Bakery
A Cake Odyssey

Weddings + Elopements by the Alicia Lucia Photography
Blog + Photo Curation by Jaclyn of Alicia Lucia Photography

Valentine's Feature - Romantics We Heart

Valentine’s Day will forever be one of our favorite little holidays around and what better way to celebrate than with some of our favorite lovers from some of the most beautiful days ever?!

Last year we were treated to so much unforgettable magic and a lot of pretty incredible love stories so we absolutely had to take one more chance to put all of our most memorable romantics together in one little blog.

Cheers to love and celebrating its wonder every single day of the year.

Featured Wedding + Elopement Venues and Locations
Ginger Ranch (Fredericksburg, TX)
Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic Farm (Albuquerque, NM)
Sunset Ranch (Fredericksburg, TX)
Hotel Andaluz (Albuquerque, NM)
Casa Perea (Corrales, NM)
Camino Real Ranch (Austin, TX)
The Desert Compass (Albuquerque, NM)
Cannon Beach (Portland, OR)
White Sands National Park (Southern NM)
Downtown Denver (Denver, CO)
Old Town Farm (Albuquerque, NM)
The Olana (Dallas, TX)
Pecos National Historical Site (Pecos, NM)
Camp Lucy (Dripping Springs, TX)
White Mesa (Albuquerque, NM)
Paradise Ranch (Pagosa Springs, CO)

Weddings + Elopements by Alicia, Ashley, Bre, and the ALP Team
Blog + Photo Curation by Jaclyn of Alicia Lucia Photography

Wedding Inspo - Intimate Weddings Part II

Earlier this year we posted a blog about some of our favorite intimate wedding inspiration, but after about a dozen more tiny weddings just in the past few months, we decided to make a part two!

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a dozen times, we ADORE intimate weddings. Everything about these little weddings is absolute perfection, from being able to spend more time with your guests to having a less limited budget due to overall lower costs to even just being able to enjoy more moments soaking up those first few hours of marriage. Over the past few months, we’ve been absolutely blown away by how our couples have taken intimate weddings to the next freaking level. Backyard weddings with all the pretty garden details, stoop weddings followed by mini parades, and the most adorable little farm weddings have just been the beginning of a whole new era of micro-weddings.

We’re not sure when giant weddings will be a consistent possibility in the coming months, but dang are we thankful for these beautiful, heartfelt, downright incredible intimate weddings. We can’t wait to share even more of these gorgeous days still to come!

Real Love Stories + Styled Shoots
Ysidro + Celestina at Casa Pera Art Space (coming soon to the blog)
Andrew + Deanna at Hotel Andaluz (coming soon to the blog)
Kenny + Molly at a Private Estate in Santa Fe (coming soon to the blog)
Eric + Lauren at Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic Farm (coming soon to the blog)
Angie + Brittany at a Private Home in Nob Hill
Gates + C.C. at a Private Estate in New Mexico
Matt + Allie at a Private Home in Santa Fe
Nate + Cait in Downtown Denver, CO
Brad + Kenna at Old Town Farm
Stuart + Kelly at Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic Farm
Zach + Natalie at The Desert Compass
Andrew + Shay at a Private Home in Albuquerque (coming soon to the blog)
Jawara + Jazz at Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic Farm
Ryan + Jennifer at Sarabande Bed and Breakfast
Zach + Coli at Hotel Albuquerque and Casas de Sueños
Paul + Carolyn at Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic Farm

Weddings + Styled Shoots by Alicia, Ashley, Bre, and the ALP Team
Blog + Photo Curation by Jaclyn of Alicia Lucia Photography

Wedding Inspo - Invitation Suite Inspo

A lot of things may have changed for weddings this year, but one element that always remains is beautiful invitation suites. We adore seeing how our couples pull together their special day with this tiny, but stunning detail.

From bespoke invitation suites with watercolor details to minimalist and modern stationary to bright and colorful invites, we’ve seen some incredible designs over the past season!

We can’t wait to see what unique and beautiful concepts our couples pull into their invitation suites in the future, we already know that we’ll be absolutely awestruck over them all!!

Invitation Designers
Funky Olive Design
Letterpress Made
Minted
Natalie Soud Studio
Silver Swirl Studios
Sweet Sentimentality
Basic Invite
Protea Press
Shutterfly
K.Laine Design
Southern Fried Paper
Dandylion Paper

Weddings by the Alicia Lucia Photography Team
Blog + Photo Curation by Jaclyn of Alicia Lucia Photography

Wedding Inspo - Ceremony Altars

Whether its a mini-wedding with a handful of guests or a giant, incredibly lively wedding with a whole bunch of friends and family members, our couples always find a way to make their ceremonies extra gorgeous, especially when it comes to the backdrops they pick to stand in front of to say “I do”. From stunning floral installations to incredible ceremony arches, we’ve seen it all, but we love looking back at some of the most show-stopping ceremony set ups we’ve seen over the past year.

As expected, we captured a ton of floral arches, from the bright and bold to the soft and whimsical varieties. Arches, both of of the wooden variety and of the purely floral design are becoming a wedding staple that we’re sure will always be a fan fave.

But besides this new classic, what other beauties have adorned alters and made vows that much more special? There are a few pretty little designs that come to mind and wow, are we still drooling over them. Just a few of our current faves include a dreamy mauve-toned geometric backdrop, the most eye-catching florals being draped from a tiny balcony, and a boho rug framed with giant pampas grass arrangements. And, of course, we can’t forget how one of our couples opted for that wide open New Mexico sky to be their ceremony background as they exchanged vows at a backyard wedding in the Santa Fe mountains.

We’re not sure what new altar trends will take the wedding world by storm in the coming years, but we do know that they’ll be absolutely divines and we’re so dang here for it all.

Featured Weddings + Styled Shoots
Zach + Natalie at The Desert Compass
Emerson Venue Styled Wedding
Nathan + Caitlin in Denver, CO (coming soon to the blog)
Jawara + Jasmyn at Los Poblanos
Brittany + Angie in Nob Hill (coming soon to the blog)
Ben + Emilee at Sandia Event Center
Matt + Allie in Santa Fe, NM (coming soon to the blog)
Drew + Lauren at La Mesita Ranch Estate
John + Anna at La Fonda on the Plaza
Jeremy + Michelle at Los Poblanos (coming soon to the blog)
Patrick + Niki at Enchanted Vine Barn
Geoff + Jocelyn at Hacienda Doña Andrea
James + Lauren at Los Poblanos
Morgan + Mattie at Las Campanas
Carter + Carrie at La Fonda on the Plaza
Qwist + Cara at Los Poblanos
Trey + Clara in San Patricio, NM
Zach + Coli at Hotel Albuquerque
Chris + Ari at Los Poblanos
Ashwin + Lauren at La Posada de Santa Fe
Jordan + KC in Santa Fe, NM
Adam + Jill at Los Poblanos
Jason + Natalie at La Fonda on the Plaza
Colton + Lindsey at Hyatt Tamaya

Weddings by Alicia, Ashley, Bre, and the ALP Team
Blog + Photo Curation by Jaclyn of Alicia Lucia Photography

Zach + Natalie, a Captivating Desert Compass Styled Wedding

Hidden away in Albuquerque’s historic Old Town area lies The Desert Compass, a magical little oasis with love and intention carved into every single inch of it. We spent the most phenomenal evening in this new little gem for a dazzling styled wedding with some of our fave New Mexico vendors!

On this overcast, yet perfect New Mexico evening, lovers Natalie + Zach were front and center of this absolute vision dreamed up by none other than our queen Lauren of Just Lovely Weddings and Darling Details. In this Southwestern inspired details meets moody tropical florals daydream, we were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of beauty and intricacy in every single moment. From divine florals from A Beautiful Theme to an unreal cake by Honey & Salt Cake Co to a truly stunning invitation suite by Silver Swirl Studios, we have wedding inspo for years to come! And when it comes to bridal details, our hair + makeup angel Genica Lee gave Natalie the most perfect glow that paired so dang beautifully with that beautiful Tara Lauren gown from our friends at Lovely Bride Denver and those exquisite pieces of jewelry from Ooh Aah Jewelry.

We teamed up with videographer Kevin Guevara to kick off this styled intimate wedding with some of the most fire bridal portraits in Desert Compass’ Coyote suite (which literally involved open flame candles) to a quick little ring exchange under Darling Details’ infamous hexagon arch to romantics all over this stellar property (and in quaint Old Town too!). And then we topped it all off with a mini reception with all the perfect table top elements under the dreamiest star lanterns.

Evenings like this are the ones we seriously live for, cheers to more intimate weddings with the most darling couples and all the right wedding day touches.

Vendors
Venue - The Desert Compass
Planning + Concept - Just Lovely Weddings
Rentals - Darling Details
Florals - A Beautiful Theme
Paper Goods + Lettering - Silver Swirl Studios
Jewelry - Ooh Aah Jewelry
Hair + MUA - Genica Lee
Bridal Gown - Tara Lauren
Bridal Boutique - Lovely Bride Denver
Groom’s Attire - Tom James
Groom’s Shoes - Cole Haan
Cake - Honey & Salt Cake Co.
Videography - Kevin Guevara Photo + Film
Lovers - Zach + Natalie
Photographer - Alicia
Assistant - Jaclyn

Blog + Photo Curation by Jaclyn of Alicia Lucia Photography