it’s official - we are heading to NM for xmas! Our 30th wedding anniversary is 10/15 (got married at the Jemez Sate Monument), and were originally going to go then, but need some more time to bulk up the budget after dumping 15K into a desperately needed home project this September (our back deck is rotting off the house).
Second best option is a trip for Christmas! I’m so excited i can’t contain myself.
Pics from our wedding for tax.
Awesome! That’s so exciting, and we will want to hear all about it, and pics of course 
And early anniversary congrats! We had our 30th 2 yrs ago and got to go to one of our fav places - Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Your wedding must have been amazing, and what a place to have it in. All of the pics are beautiful; your white dress against all that color is perfection. Thanks for sharing!
What a wonderful way to mark a special anniversary. We definitely need lots of pics! Congratulations on 30 years together.
Beautiful photos!
What a fabulous backdrop for a wedding!
Beautiful couple, beautiful setting. Congrats on your upcoming big day. What a great trip you’re planning! 
That’s great! And I really love your setting and wedding pictures… they’re stunning! What a beautiful place for a wedding, and the two of you really fit the location with your Western wear.
Congratulations on 30! I think either time of the year will be great there. My husband and I celebrated our 10-year anniversary at the Grand Canyon in October of 2006, despite the fact that our anniversary is in December (too much going on around the holidays). I’d love to take the 30th out west somewhere (but might consider a really great turquoise gift as an alternative!). 
Aww, yay! I’ve always wanted to go to Santa Fe at Christmas and see the farolitos, as well as some of the Christmas Eve and Christmas Pueblo feast days. You will have so much fun. Congrats on 30 years and thanks for sharing your beautiful wedding photos!
Wonderful wedding pictures @Jemez2! The Southwest is so beautiful in the winter; something about the light. Like @OrbitOrange, I’ve always wanted to go to Santa Fe for Christmas!
Many years ago we did go to the Pueblos for the New Year’s Day and All Kings day dances. The Buffalo dance a Jemez was so amazing, but also so cold! We arrived at Jemez before sunup to see dancers (with minimal regalia) come down from the mountains to drumming and singing, then into the Plaza where’re they danced all day. I still remember the drumming and the Buffalo dancers…such great memories!
That would have been amazing! Your post made me remember that years ago we were in the Bahamas on New Year’s, and went to the Junkanoo celebration and parade which gets started around midnight, and goes through the streets of downtown Nassau; we went to bed around 4:00 am, and it was still going strong. We were just about the only non Bahamians there, and it was truly spectacular.
K, kinda creepy cause my phone was listening to me, but this just came up in my Google feed…
@Ziacat We did the same, middle of the night Junkanoo too, and were likewise seemingly the only nonlocals. Super fun, super interesting–Bob Marley in 7-feet-tall papier mache! etc.
love this post. I am hoping to make a road trip to Santa Fe and Taos in November. My one trip was to visit Ruidoso back in 2016 when an old high school friend lived there. Loved the geography and told my husband then that we needed to do an old fashion American roadtrip then. Of course that was the pre-times but this year determined to do the trip in cooler times as we will have doggies doing the drive with us. I am excited and building up funds to do all the things including turquoise buying! Love your squash in the wedding photo.
When we were there our favorite was an entry portraying Noah’s ark with a bunch of animals in pairs bobbing along in time to the drums. So cool.
