Elise Taylor

November 1, 2025

Announcement

Tis The Season for Family Portraits!

Elise Taylor

November 1, 2025

Announcement

It’s the most wonderful time of the year……time to get those family portraits updated! It’s time to refresh your photos on the wall, send those lovely Christmas cards, and send prints to all the grandparents for gifts. And speaking of gifts, we offer gift certificates for portrait sessions so you can gift a friend, loved one, or coworker with their own photo shoot. We still have availability for this holiday season. Send us an email to get planning your family’s 2025 portrait session.

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Elise Taylor

October 23, 2025

Real Weddings

Las Cruces Wedding at the Blue Door Venue

Elise Taylor

October 23, 2025

Real Weddings

Sejal and Nat’s August wedding was a tight knit family celebration of their love, with guests and family coming together from all over the world. The Blue Door Venue in Las Cruces provided a picture perfect backdrop for their personal vows. Sejal and her bridal entourage spent their time before the ceremony in the Blue Door’s bridal loft, an ideal space for getting ready as it is full of natural light. The talented make-up artist Elyse Simons gave Sejal a natural and beautiful bridal look and Jenna Emerick from Salon de Mesilla did Sejal’s hair. Their ceremony was held in the Blue Door’s courtyard.

Isn’t Sejal’s saree gorgeous?! The perfect outfit for twirling! Sejal carried an exquisitely designed bouquet from Desert Modern Florals that complemented her look perfectly.

Sight and Sound Entertainment provided all the right tunes to keep the evening spirited and helped lead fun games like the classic shoe game and a rowdy scavenger hunt/musical chair mash up for the guests.

My favorite thing about Sejal and Nat’s wedding was how they both savored being with their families. I love the tender glances between Sejal and her parents, and Nat and his siblings. I hope they are able to look back on their wedding photos and feel those same feelings of gratitude and love many years from now!

Vendors

Venue: The Blue Door Venue

Coordinator: Livingston Bridal and Events

Photography: Taylor’d Photography

Florist: Desert Modern Floral

Caterer: Andeles

Cake and treats: Indulgence Bakery

Music and MC: Sight and Sound Entertainment

Make up: Elyse Simons Beauty

Hair: Jenna Emerick, Salon De Mesilla

Nate Taylor

March 10, 2025

YouTube Customer Testimonial Video for KT Homes

Nate Taylor

March 10, 2025

YouTube Customer Testimonial Video for KT Homes

We recently helped KT Homes create a customer testimonial video for their YouTube page, featuring a customer answer some questions they had prepared.

Nate Taylor

February 4, 2025

Vendor Love

Our Favorite Wedding Venues of 2024

Nate Taylor

February 4, 2025

Vendor Love

We know that choosing a venue is a difficult task and most likely the largest ticket item in the wedding budget. It influences nearly every aspect of your wedding day. From the overall feel to logistical challenges, and most importantly (according to these biased photographers) provide the backdrop for every photograph. Choosing our favorite venues of 2024 is easy, more difficult is deciding which venues to leave off the list. So, we came up with seven in no particular order and provided bullet points of the features that push these venues over the top. In 2024 there wasn’t a single wedding venue we didn’t appreciate, but these made our favorites. If you are getting married soon, and are shopping for a venue, we have included the corresponding websites, just keep in mind the location.

Blue Door Venue, Mesilla, New Mexico (https://bluedoorvenue.com/)

• Roxanne from Livingston Bridal is the manager

• Indoor/Outdoor availability

• Amazing Bridal suite for getting ready and outfit changes

The Meadows, Fabens (El Paso), Texas (https://www.themeadowstx.com/)

• Sprawling countryside views, fields, mountains, sunsets (appropriately named)

• Farm vibes

• Large capacity

• Outdoor

Epic Railyard, El Paso, Texas (https://www.epicrailyard.com/)

• Industrial vintage atmosphere

• Indoor/Outdoor availability

• Rooftop views of borderland

• Eleven Sixteen Beauty Salon on site

Hotel Encanto, Las Cruces, New Mexico (https://www.hotelencanto.com/)

• Desert Oasis Garden Pool area with foliage, tall palm trees, and Spanish Colonial pillars

• Large capacity Ball Room

• Décor by Jessie Lopez

Hotel Paso del Norte, El Paso, Texas (https://www.hotelpdn.com/)

• Boutique luxurious atmosphere, architecture with traditional elements and multicultural nods

• Rooftop views of downtown El Paso

• Unique dome ceiling bar

• Historic, renovated, elegant

Hotel Paisano, Marfa, Texas (https://hotelpaisano.com/)

• Retro Cowboy aesthetic

• Artsy hipster small town destination

• Historic indoor/outdoor

Fulford Barn, Brownfield, Texas

• Private forest oasis in the middle of the West Texas Desert

• Outdoor naturally shaded grassy field suitable for large capacity weddings

• Coy pond with waterfall feature, trail through bamboo forest

• Whimsical lighting after dark

Nate Taylor

January 1, 2025

Videography

2024 Wedding Highlight Videos

Nate Taylor

January 1, 2025

Videography

We use YouTube as a convenient video host for our video portfolio. We like to post the wedding highlight videos we make for our clients so that they can share and access their video from whenever and wherever the desire happens upon them. I myself have found it convenient to view my family videos on my phone using YouTube when I am away from home or viewing them on the T.V. at home with our kids. We also try to include a brief list of other wedding vendors with links to their websites as a resource for brides who are in search of vendors that will make their wedding picture perfect. This post is our year in review of the weddings we made videos for last year (2024). We look forward to making a wedding highlight video for your wedding this year!