The Best Season for a Bacalar Elopement
A tropical lagoon with a dry season of calm, luminous water and a wet season of afternoon storms. When the seven colours are at their most vivid, and when the mosquitoes are not.
You assume any month works for a tropical lagoon.
The season decides whether the seven colours glow or hide under grey storm water.
Bacalar has a dry season and a wet one, and the water's colour depends entirely on the light and the calm.
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November through April is the dry window: calm, clear, luminous water at its most vivid seven-colour blue, reliable sun, and gentler humidity. It is the most dependable and photogenic time, and the one I plan most Bacalar elopements around.
The dry season
November through April is the dry window: calm, clear, luminous water at its most vivid seven-colour blue, reliable sun, and gentler humidity. It is the most dependable and photogenic time, and the one I plan most Bacalar elopements around.
The wet season
May through October brings heat, humidity, afternoon thunderstorms, and more mosquitoes, though the mornings often stay clear and the lagoon is lush and green around it. It is quieter and cheaper, and I plan a day that works around the reliable morning calm.
Pick the dry window if you can, then hand me the date. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day around the light and the calm, coordinate the ceremony, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the dry season is when Bacalar's seven colours truly show.
