The Best Places to Elope in Puerto Vallarta
The golden Pacific shore and Bay of Banderas, the cobblestone Zona Romantica, the Sierra Madre jungle, and the boat-access southern coves. Where beach and culture meet, four ways.
Couples book Puerto Vallarta for the beach.
What makes it more than a beach anywhere is a five-minute walk inland and a short boat ride south.
Vallarta gives you a golden Pacific bay, a real living Mexican town, and jungle coves, and it photographs four ways.
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The golden shore of the Bay of Banderas layers sea, sand, and the Sierra Madre in one frame, with spectacular Pacific sunsets. And the Zona Romantica gives cobblestone, bougainvillea, the crowned church tower, and the malecon, the couple woven into a real Mexican town.
The bay and the old town
The golden shore of the Bay of Banderas layers sea, sand, and the Sierra Madre in one frame, with spectacular Pacific sunsets. And the Zona Romantica gives cobblestone, bougainvillea, the crowned church tower, and the malecon, the couple woven into a real Mexican town.
The jungle coves and mountains
South of the city, boat-access coves like Las Animas and Yelapa give secluded jungle-backed beaches reachable only by water, and the Sierra Madre behind the bay gives waterfalls and jungle for a wilder counterpoint.
The right place depends on what the photographs need to hold. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, charter the boat and arrange the vendors, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the best Vallarta elopements pair the culture and the coast in one day.
Let the Elopement Compass point you to your Vallarta setting →
