A Puerto Vallarta Beach Elopement
The golden Bay of Banderas, the Sierra Madre rising behind, and the spectacular Pacific sunsets. The classic Vallarta beach ceremony, and how to make it feel like yours.
A beach wedding sounds like a resort package on a crowded shore.
The beach was never the problem. The wedding around it was.
Strip it back to the two of you on the golden sand as the Pacific sun drops, and a Vallarta beach becomes the most effortless elopement on the coast.
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The Bay of Banderas layers sea, sand, and the Sierra Madre in one frame, so the beach holds water and mountain at once. From the city beaches to the secluded boat-access coves of the south, the shore gives the warm, layered tropical image.
Why the Vallarta beach works
The Bay of Banderas layers sea, sand, and the Sierra Madre in one frame, so the beach holds water and mountain at once. From the city beaches to the secluded boat-access coves of the south, the shore gives the warm, layered tropical image.
The sunset and the day
The Pacific sunsets over the bay are spectacular, so golden hour is the heart of the day. A barefoot ceremony as the sun drops, then the sand or a southern cove for portraits, is the whole thing.
As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, arrange the symbolic ceremony, the beach permission, and the vendors, and both shoot and film it, photo and video in every tier. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the Vallarta beach elopement is the one couples tell me felt like a celebration, not a production.
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