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Vineyard or Mountain: Where to Elope in Mendoza

A ceremony among the Malbec vines against one high in the Andes at the foot of the highest peak in the Americas. Two sides of Mendoza, and two very different elopements.

You choose Mendoza for the wine and assume the vineyards are the whole story.

Right behind them, the highest mountains in the Americas offer a completely different day.

Mendoza gives you a vineyard elopement among the vines or a mountain one high in the Andes. Two very different sides of the same region.

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Couple in wedding attire in an alpine meadow below the snow-capped high Andes near Mendoza
Photograph — Argentina · the picture moves
Readers are advised the subjects may wander out of frame.
The vineyard

A vineyard ceremony happens among the rows of Malbec, with the snow-capped Andes on the horizon, followed by a private tasting and a candlelit dinner in the vines. It is romantic, warm, and indulgent, wine country at its most refined, especially in the golden autumn harvest.

Couple at a vineyard ceremony among the vines in Mendoza Argentina
A vineyard ceremony happens among the rows of Malbec, with the snow-capped Andes on the horizon, followed by a tasting and a dinner in the vines. Romantic, warm, and indulgent, wine country at its most refined. — stationary
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The vineyard

Couple at a vineyard ceremony among the vines in Mendoza Argentina
A vineyard ceremony happens among the rows of Malbec, with the snow-capped Andes on the horizon, followed by a tasting and a dinner in the vines. Romantic, warm, and indulgent, wine country at its most refined. — stationary

A vineyard ceremony happens among the rows of Malbec, with the snow-capped Andes on the horizon, followed by a private tasting and a candlelit dinner in the vines. It is romantic, warm, and indulgent, wine country at its most refined, especially in the golden autumn harvest.

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The mountain

An hour up into the Cordillera, the high Andes give a different world: the road toward Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas, dramatic rock, snow, and altitude. A ceremony up there is wild and elemental, adventure over indulgence, the raw mountains behind the wine.

Choose the vineyard for romance and wine, the mountains for wild adventure, or pair them across a trip. 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 indulgent and the wild faces of Mendoza.

Vineyard or mountain? Let the Elopement Compass choose your Mendoza →

Couple high in the Andes near Aconcagua above Mendoza Argentina
An hour up into the Cordillera, the high Andes give a different world: the road toward Aconcagua, dramatic rock, snow, and altitude. A ceremony up there is wild and elemental, adventure over indulgence. — stationary
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