The Best Places to Elope in Merida
The White City of the Yucatan: grand colonial boulevards, restored haciendas, and cenotes hidden in the jungle, with the safest, most cultured base in southern Mexico.
You think of a Yucatan elopement as the beaches of the Riviera Maya.
Inland, the region's cultural heart is a grand colonial city few couples consider.
Merida is the White City of the Yucatan, and it gives colonial grandeur, haciendas, and cenotes instead of a crowded coast.
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Merida's colonial centre is a grid of pastel facades around the Plaza Grande and one of the oldest cathedrals in the Americas, and the Paseo de Montejo is a grand tree-lined boulevard of Gilded Age mansions modelled on the great avenues of Europe. It is elegant, safe, and deeply cultured.
The White City
Merida's colonial centre is a grid of pastel facades around the Plaza Grande and one of the oldest cathedrals in the Americas, and the Paseo de Montejo is a grand tree-lined boulevard of Gilded Age mansions modelled on the great avenues of Europe. It is elegant, safe, and deeply cultured.
Haciendas and cenotes
Around the city, restored henequen haciendas offer faded grandeur, private chapels, and cenotes on their grounds, and the jungle hides hundreds of the sacred sinkhole cenotes and the great Maya sites of Uxmal and Chichen Itza. It is a base for a whole cultural world.
The right spot depends on the setting you want. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, coordinate the ceremony and vendors, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, Merida is the most cultured and characterful base in southern Mexico.
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