How much is a wedding in Cabo San Lucas?

A wedding in Cabo for 70 guests over a three-day weekend is estimated at about $173,500 USD, line by line, including 16% Mexican IVA. That is the total of this guide’s eight cost lines at typical prices; with every line at its cheapest it is $112,500, and with every line at its most expensive, $275,500.

These are planning estimates modeled in spring 2026 for a November weekend, not venue quotes. The largest line is a full or partial buyout of a luxury resort on the Tourist Corridor, about $85,000 of the typical total. Ask each resort early whether it charges a buyout fee, for how much of the property, and whether its quote includes service charges.

The total can also run higher: the venue line stops at $140,000, and a full buyout of Palmilla or Las Ventanas is estimated at $200,000 and up before catering.

For a different guest count, use the Cabo San Lucas wedding budget calculator, which starts from lower allowances than this guide: a fixed venue-hire allowance in place of a resort buyout, and no accommodation.

Foreigners can legally get married in Cabo San Lucas. The Baja California Sur Civil Registry (Registro Civil) publishes a procedure for couples with a foreign partner and has offices in Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo. In Mexico only a marriage performed by Civil Registry officials is legally valid, so any other ceremony is symbolic.

For two foreigners, or a Mexican and a foreigner, the registry’s published list asks for:

• A marriage application completed by both partners.
• Original, up-to-date birth certificates, apostilled and translated into Spanish by a translator authorized by the Baja California Sur Superior Court of Justice.
• Official ID for both partners and the passport of each foreign partner.
• A CURP (Mexico’s population registry number) for each partner.
• A certificate of no marriage on record in Baja California Sur, plus one from their place of origin for anyone born outside the state.
• Prenuptial medical tests issued by the Centro de Salud (public health center), valid for 15 days and still valid on the wedding day.
• Four adult witnesses who are not the couple’s parents, two for each partner, each with a copy of photo ID.

Marriages are by appointment at any registry office in the state, with documents and the fee due 10 days before the scheduled date. Set against the 15-day test window, that is tight for couples flying in, so ask the registry or your planner how visitors file, and what visitors supply for the CURP and the certificates. The US Embassy adds that US citizens marrying other non-Mexicans must present their tourist cards, so keep your entry record. The registry’s page carries no date; confirm the list and these fees, in Mexican pesos, before you pay for flights.

The best time of year to get married in Cabo is November, May or June. This guide’s calendar rates those three months prime: they fall in or just after the drier November to May stretch and outside the December to April price peak, which adds an estimated 25 to 40 percent on venue and catering.

• December to April: the calendar’s peak season. Dry, with the highest prices.
• July to October: low prices. July is hot, and August to October are the calendar’s wettest months, September most of all.
• May 15 to November 30: the eastern Pacific hurricane season, according to the US National Hurricane Center. Most tropical cyclones occur between late June and early October.

No month guarantees the weather, so ask each venue for its indoor backup and read the cancellation terms before you sign.

The main settings for a Cabo wedding are a Tourist Corridor resort, a cliff property at Pedregal on the Cabo side, or a private villa. The corridor is the 20-mile stretch of coast between Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo. The ceremony can be on a beach, or in a desert cactus garden if wind is a concern.

• Corridor and Pedregal resorts: One&Only Palmilla, Las Ventanas al Paraíso, Esperanza, Chileno Bay, Montage Los Cabos and Waldorf Astoria Pedregal host full or partial buyouts. Resort wedding packages are estimated to start around $55,000 on the venue side and to pass $150,000 for exclusive use.
• Private villas: Villa Serena and Villa Cortez at Pedregal and Villa Santana on the East Cape take smaller groups, 40 to 60 with a reception, at an estimated $40,000 to $120,000 for the weekend plus catering.
• All-inclusive resorts: these sell set wedding packages; see the guide to all-inclusive destination wedding packages.

To compare properties, browse wedding venues in Baja California Sur.

Guests for a Cabo wedding fly into Los Cabos International Airport (SJD), which the Los Cabos Tourism Board places 8 miles from San José del Cabo and a 23-mile drive from Cabo San Lucas. Tourist Corridor resorts are an estimated 20 to 40 minutes from the airport by road, and Cabo San Lucas is 35 to 50 minutes.

The board’s September 2026 air connectivity report lists these nonstop flights per week for November 2026. East-coast service is thin and no Miami nonstop is listed, so guests from the east should reserve early or plan a connection.

This guide estimates round-trip fares at $300 to $500 from Los Angeles and $450 to $800 from New York. The guest travel cost estimator prices the trip for each guest group.

A Los Cabos wedding weekend runs three or four nights. In the three-day sample below, guests land at SJD on Friday for welcome cocktails and a beach dinner, a late-afternoon ceremony and reception fill Saturday, and Sunday is a long brunch with an optional deep-sea fishing trip.

A mariachi trio for the ceremony and a DJ for the late set is the classic pairing; the cost table estimates music at $4,500 to $12,500.

Priced line by line, a wedding in Cabo is estimated to cost more than one in Tulum: about $173,500 against about $151,000 for 70 guests over three days, each with a resort or hotel buyout. The Riviera Maya ($45,000 to $90,000 for 70 guests) and Maui ($75,000 to $180,000 for 60 to 80 guests) have summary estimates only, not line-by-line totals, so they are not like for like.

Cabo’s draw is its luxury-resort corridor and about three hours of nonstop flying from Los Angeles. The Tulum wedding guide and the Riviera Maya wedding guide cover those two. This guide has no separate figure for Cancún.

Cabo suits US-based couples, especially from the west coast or Texas, who want a polished luxury-resort wedding for 40 to 100 guests and have the budget for a resort buyout weekend, an estimated $112,500 or more for three days. It is a harder fit for a tight budget, for more than 120 guests, or for couples based in Europe.

From Europe, the only nonstop in the tourism board’s September 2026 schedule is a twice-weekly winter flight from Frankfurt.