Destination Wedding Films | Cancún & Riviera Maya
A curated collection. Four films. Documentary storytelling. True cinema.
These films were made across Cancún, the Riviera Maya, and the Yucatán Peninsula — at a cenote deep in the Maya jungle, inside a hacienda that has hosted celebrations for three centuries, on the Caribbean coast, and in the colonial heart of Mérida. No two locations, no two couples, no two stories. What they have in common is that nothing in them was directed.
María & Fernando — Hacienda Xtepen, Mérida, Yucatán
A three-day wedding in Mérida. The first evening was a gathering at Salón Gallos, one of the city’s most storied cantinas. The second day was an intimate civil ceremony with immediate family in a colonial home in the city center. The third was the celebration — Hacienda Xtepen, more than two hundred guests, no religious ceremony, only the words of the people who knew them best. The night ended with a batucada. January 2025.
Maura & Jason — Cenote Hats'uts, Riviera Maya
Maura grew up with Mexican roots. Jason’s family came from Asia. They live in California. Their wedding was in the middle of the Maya jungle, at a cenote that requires a kilometer walk through the forest to reach. Maura’s four daughters stood beside her as bridesmaids. For most of the guests — nearly all American — the walk through the jungle at dusk was the first time they had seen anything like it. The ceremony happened underground, next to water that has been there longer than any of us.
Fiorela & Steven — Ocean Events, Costa Mujeres, Cancún
Fiorela is from Bolivia. Steven is from Colombia. They live in South Carolina. The ceremony was in Capilla María Estrella del Mar, a chapel built at the edge of the Caribbean. What followed was exactly what you would expect from two South Americans who had been waiting all year to dance — and nothing like what a typical destination wedding looks like on film.
Yanet & Marc — Playa del Carmen
Yanet is from Mexico. Marc is from England. Family came from both directions — from across the country and across the Atlantic — to watch them get married under a palapa on the sand, with the Caribbean behind them. Of the four films in this collection, this one is the most classically beautiful. It is also the one that most clearly shows what this kind of wedding looks like when everything goes right. December 2024.
About the Work
My background is in commercial and documentary production. Before filming weddings I worked with international brands on projects that demanded the same things a wedding demands: reading a room under pressure, capturing clean audio in uncontrolled environments, making decisions about what matters before the moment disappears. I trained in that discipline at the School of Visual Arts in New York. I apply it here.
What that means in practice is that I don’t direct. I don’t ask for poses, recreate moments, or build shots around what looks good on camera. I follow what is actually happening and make editorial decisions in the edit that turn hours of real footage into a film with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not a highlight reel. A film.
I’m based in Cancún and film destination weddings across the Riviera Maya, Yucatán, and internationally. I take between 8 and 10 weddings per year. If your date is available and the work feels right for what you have in mind, the next step is a conversation.