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Desert or Pacific: Where to Elope in Todos Santos

The cactus desert and historic mission town against the wild Pacific surf beaches. Two faces of this Baja artist village, and two very different ceremonies.

You book Todos Santos for the beaches and assume that is the whole town.

Behind it, the cactus desert and an old mission town are just as striking.

Todos Santos gives a cactus desert and a wild Pacific coast in one small Baja town, and they make two very different ceremonies.

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Couple in wedding attire on a swing at a wild Pacific sunset beach near Todos Santos
Photograph — Mexico · the picture moves
Readers are advised the subjects may wander out of frame.
The desert and the town

Todos Santos is a Pueblo Magico, a bohemian artist town of galleries, a historic mission, and colourful colonial streets, set against the cactus desert and the Sierra de la Laguna mountains behind. A ceremony here is warm, characterful, and grounded in the desert light.

Couple in the cactus desert and mission town of Todos Santos Baja Mexico
Todos Santos is a Pueblo Magico of galleries, a historic mission, and colourful streets, set against the cactus desert and the Sierra de la Laguna. A ceremony here is warm, characterful, and grounded in desert light. — stationary
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The desert and the town

Couple in the cactus desert and mission town of Todos Santos Baja Mexico
Todos Santos is a Pueblo Magico of galleries, a historic mission, and colourful streets, set against the cactus desert and the Sierra de la Laguna. A ceremony here is warm, characterful, and grounded in desert light. — stationary

Todos Santos is a Pueblo Magico, a bohemian artist town of galleries, a historic mission, and colourful colonial streets, set against the cactus desert and the Sierra de la Laguna mountains behind. A ceremony here is warm, characterful, and grounded in the desert light.

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The Pacific coast

Minutes away, the Pacific delivers dramatic surf beaches, powerful waves, wide empty sand, and huge sunsets, with whales offshore in winter. It is wild and elemental where the town is warm and cultured, the raw counterpoint to the desert.

Choose the desert and town for warmth and character, the Pacific for wild drama, or pair them across a day. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, coordinate the ceremony, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the two are the cultured and the wild faces of Todos Santos.

Desert or Pacific? Let the Elopement Compass choose your Todos Santos →

Couple on a wild Pacific surf beach near Todos Santos Baja Mexico
Minutes away, the Pacific delivers dramatic surf beaches, powerful waves, wide empty sand, and huge sunsets, with whales offshore in winter. Wild and elemental where the town is warm and cultured. — stationary
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