Hosting A Wedding In Los Cabos

Los Cabos, located at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula, is an excellent choice for a destination wedding. Not only is it a convenient location for your guests, particularly if you’re located on the West Coast, but as a popular getaway destination, it’s also easy to find affordable flights and hotel accommodations in the area.

Just as you’ll find in many destinations, your wedding planning in Los Cabos can be as involved or as easy as you’d like. Some resorts offer pre-made packages that have everything you could need already included, while others are willing to work with you to make the event a little more personalized. One of the most popular resorts in Los Cabos to choose for your big day? Grand Fiesta Americana Los Cabos, where you can host your wedding right on the Sea of Cortes, then stay to honeymoon in one of their luxury suites.

El Arco, Los Cabos, Mexico © Heyheythere | Dreamstime

Of course, be sure before you arrive you have all necessary paperwork and documentation handy. Some couples choose to have a ceremonial wedding in Mexico, and then fill out the legal documentation once back in the States, but others prefer their destination wedding to be legally binding. If this is the route for you, be sure to enlist the help of a wedding planner that has worked with destination weddings before, and who can guarantee you have what you need. You’ll want to present your tourist visas, birth certificates, blood test results (completed once in-country) and four witnesses (which, if you’re eloping, can be arranged by your hotel). All will need to be in Spanish and, if you’ve been divorced, you’ll have to prove you’ve been divorced for at least one year.

Before you can even consider all the paperwork; however, you have to set a date! Winter and early spring is wedding season in Los Cabos, and for good reason. Summer can become unbearably hot, and you may be rained out if you wait until the fall. However, planning your wedding during prime time can mean you won’t receive as much one-on-one attention from your resort contact or vendors in the area. Ask your planner for recommendations!