Best Destination Wedding Venues along Medano Beach in Cabo San Lucas
Congratulations on your engagement! We’re thrilled that you & your fiancé are considering having your destination wedding in Los Cabos, Mexico! If you are looking for the best destination wedding venues found along Medano Beach in Cabo San Lucas, Rich & Kitch are here to help! Cabo’s Medano Beach has some of the best destination wedding venues that we can’t wait to share with you! There are over 85 hotels & resorts in Los Cabos, not including all of the individual private villa rentals & Airbnb's. With that, we’ll do our best to cover the resorts that we like the most, as well as venues that our wedding planners host weddings at most often!
Photographer: Anna Gomes
Here is the Rich & Kitch list of the BEST destination wedding venues along Medano Beach in Cabo San Lucas:
The Medano Beach area is our favorite location in Cabo since it is super close to downtown! We also love this beach since it is safe to swim in the Sea of Cortez. You can read more of our Medano Beach recommendations in this post, but now let’s dive into Rich & Kitch’s favorite destination weddings resorts located along Medano Beach!
VILLA DEL ARCO
Villa del Arco is first on our list since this is where Rich & Kitch got hitched! My family owns a timeshare at Villa del Arco, which ultimately helped us make our decision, but we’re so glad we decided to get married at this amazing resort! The property is beautiful, the rooms are extremely nice (especially the penthouses as you can see in this video), & we are always impressed with the service from Villa del Arco’s amazing employees!
The wedding packages at Villa del Arco are reasonably priced & the service you will receive on your wedding day is top-notch. If you do not hire an outside wedding planner, you will be very involved in the wedding planning process leading up to your wedding day. This is why we created the Get Hitched With Rich & Kitch Wedding Planning Playbook to help you along your wedding planning journey! However, Villa del Arco wedding packages include a day-of wedding coordinator which is extremely helpful to make your wedding day run as smoothly & as stress-free as possible!
If your guests book a minimum of 10 rooms for 3 nights stay at Villa del Arco, you will receive a complimentary wedding ceremony which includes:
Wedding ceremony performed by a Minister
A commemorative marriage certificate
Chairs for your wedding ceremony (we requested to use the resort's chiavari chairs vs. chairs covered in white fabric)
Beautiful canopy draped with white flowing fabric (we used the resort’s 3-pole wedding arch & added flowers from Let It Be Events)
Bridal bouquet (we decided to use Let It Be Events for all of our wedding flowers instead)
Bottle of wine in the room upon arrival for the couple
15% discount on Spa services (helpful to use for getting ready on your wedding day. The hair & makeup team can come to your room on your wedding day which is nice, too!)
Romantic turn-down service on the wedding night for the couple
2 free nights to celebrate your anniversary (only offered at Villa del Palmar even if you get married at Villa del Arco)
Wedding coordinator to assist you on wedding day
If you don’t qualify for a complimentary wedding ceremony, Villa del Arco has affordable wedding ceremony packages to purchase as well. For our wedding ceremony, we used their minister Diego from Los Cabos Wedding Minister Services & he was amazing!!! The only downside is that the ceremony is not legally valid, so you can read how we decided to make our marriage legal here.
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We chose to have our wedding ceremony on El Patron Terrace vs. getting married on the beach because we both wanted more privacy for our wedding. If you have a beach wedding at Villa del Arco, random people tend to watch from over the railing at the resort, which is something we didn’t want. El Patrón Terrace is more secluded & has the iconic Cabo rocks as your wedding day backdrop, so this was the perfect option for us! Our Cabo wedding ceremony started at 5:30pm & lasted about 20 minutes. We had both of our moms read a short reading & added in a wine box ceremony. We are glad we did both of these to make the ceremony more meaningful & a little longer!
Photographer: Anna Gomes
For a wedding reception at Villa del Arco, here is an overview of what’s included:
A selection of hors d’oeuvres
5 hour national open bar
Cocktail tables with white tablecloths
Private function with private service
Wedding menu
Wedding cake
Reception chairs
Banquet tables with white tablecloths
Assistance from wedding coordinator
Prices per person vary whether your guests are all-inclusive (AI), room-only (also known as European Plan (EP)), or non-hotel guests
Here’s an idea of how this worked for our wedding:
*For our cocktail hour from 6:00pm - 7:00pm, we had 2 cold appetizers & 2 warm appetizers which were great.
Photographer: Anna Gomes
*We used the resort's cocktail tables to save money, but we also added additional décor, like the lounge seating pictured below, from Let It Be Events.
Photographer: Anna Gomes
*For our wedding reception from 7:00pm - 11:00pm (which is the resort's curfew), we used the resort's round tables, white tablecloths, & flatware/glasses. Let It Be Events provided décor items like our sweetheart table, all candles, dance floor, & my favorites - our mirror seating chart & maracas! I designed & printed our wedding stationery seen below. If you like the designs, Rich & Kitch stationery templates can be purchased on the kitchensinkit Etsy shop!
Photographer: Anna Gomes
*The food during our wedding reception dinner was amazing! All of our wedding guests loved it as much as we did. The photos below are from our food tasting, which was also amazing!
*I made menus for our wedding day, too. You can purchase our customizable wedding menu template for your wedding day here!
Photographer: Anna Gomes | Stationary: Designed by kitchensinkit
*Our wedding cake honestly wasn’t great (I don't really like cake to begin with though lol), but our cake did look nice! We brought our own cake topper & cake cutting set, & our wedding planner added flowers from our bridesmaids bouquets for us!
Photographer: Anna Gomes
*The service on our wedding day was outstanding & we loved having so many servers taking care of us - they always made sure we had bottled water & that our cocktails were full!
Photographer: Anna Gomes
For a wedding reception at Villa del Arco, you have the option to buyout one of the following restaurants:
El Patron Terrace: capacity 70-100 guests
El Patron Restaurant: capacity 40-70 guests
Neptune: capacity 64 guests (we love this restaurant, but El Patron offers a bigger space for a wedding setup)
For our wedding, we decided to buyout both El Patron Terrace & El Patron Restaurant for more privacy. We only had 35 guests, so buying out both parts of the restaurant cost more, but it was worth it! We had our ceremony on the terrace, cocktail hour inside of the restaurant (which allowed them to set up our wedding reception back outside on the terrace), & our wedding reception on El Patron Terrace was amazing! Cabo is known for their amazingly consistent weather so it was lovely to have everything outside. While we got married in June (which is technically the start of hurricane season) we had amazing weather during our destination wedding week! The months we recommend that you avoid getting married in Cabo are August & September. These are the months where Cabo gets the most rain & is extremely hot/humid.
