Every Wedding Mi Amor Can Hold, Settled With You First
Small as it is, this house handles a full wedding better than anything else it does: vows on a terrace hung over the water, drinks under the striped cabanas, and dinner carried out onto the stone while the sea keeps working underneath. Around that sit the tighter formats — an elopement witnessed by one person; an intimate wedding that never leaves the two levels of the property; a vow renewal brought back to whichever anniversary counts. Collections that allow for it put video next to the stills. Then everything else, all of it done here too: symbolic ceremonies and legal ones, LGBTQ+ celebrations, the day-after hour in the spray, engagement portraits made long in advance.
The house is run by Colibri Boutique Hotels, sits inside Small Luxury Hotels of the World and admits grown-ups only: twenty rooms over two floors, a household rather than a resort. Book us as your Mi Amor Tulum wedding photographer and the first thing to happen is not a contract but a sit-down — one of our lead photographers, you, and an unhurried hour spent working out what the day should look like. Bilingual, permanently based here, past 1,000 couples on this shoreline and holding Travellers’ Choice 2023–2025. Our own wedding work, and the collections it belongs to, sit side by side on the Tulum wedding photographer page. Dates go quiet quickly in high season, and a WhatsApp asking after yours reaches us straight away.
What Standing Above the Water Does for Your Wedding Photos
Ceremony set-ups, guest numbers and menus belong to the hotel’s wedding team, and they are the ones to ask. Our side of it is narrower: what the property itself does to a frame. Here the answer starts with height, because the ground you marry on sits above the sea instead of beside it.
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A Horizon That Lands Behind You
Because the terraces rest on rock and not on sand, the sea line arrives behind your shoulders rather than at your feet. On a flat shore a photographer kneels to buy that angle; at Mi Amor it is simply where the floor is, and it holds from the first look through the last portrait of the night.
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Stone, Spray and a Little Weather
The Caribbean breaks against this outcrop instead of sliding onto it. A wedding gallery gets what a pale shoreline never gives — wet dark limestone, white spray, hard edges behind a white dress. Those portraits ask for a few minutes of patience and one obliging wave, and nothing else in the folder looks like them.
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Backgrounds That Came With the House
Colibri dressed Mi Amor in Art Deco lines and striped cabanas set among the gardens, a golden-age-cinema register that is rare in a town built of palapa and rope. Nothing needs styling for the camera: the stripes, the curves and the pool edge are already graphic, so the frames read as designed rather than found.
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Two Cameras, Two Heights, One Vow
The house is stacked — rooms above, terraces and rock below — so the ceremony can be covered from two elevations at once. One of us stays at eye level for the faces while the other works the level above, where the whole party and the open sea fit in a single frame. On flat sand that second frame does not exist.
Which Wedding Are You Picturing at Mi Amor?
A house of twenty rooms on a rock changes the arithmetic of a wedding: fewer people, shorter distances, and every space in sight of the water. These are the three shapes couples ask us for here, each with a guide of its own.
A Full Wedding, Ceremony Through Dinner on the Rocks
Getting ready on a terrace with a plunge pool, the first look, vows above the sea, drinks among the cabanas and then dinner served out on the stone — one or two photographers, depending on how many chairs there are. Our destination wedding photography timeline shows how we pace a whole wedding day so the light never runs out before the pictures do.
An Elopement of Two, or a Wedding of Twenty
Two of you and a witness, or a guest list that fits the house: a short ceremony on the terrace, a long portrait hour on the rock, and a dinner that quietly becomes the reception. Read our Tulum elopement guide alongside the intimate wedding guide before you decide which of the two you are actually planning.
Vows Renewed on the Terrace, or Spoken in a Cenote
Mi Amor asks its guests whether they are ready to fall in love again, which is more or less the brief for a vow renewal: no paperwork, the same dress, the same photographer. Couples who want stone of a different kind add a limestone pool in the jungle behind the coast road — our cenote wedding and elopement guide covers how that ceremony is lit and how long it takes.
The Piece of Coast Your Wedding Sits On
Mi Amor stands at Km 4.1 of the Tulum–Boca Paila road, on the seaward side, with the jungle of the Parque del Jaguar reserve at its back and no neighbour tall enough to appear in a frame. What matters for the wedding day is that nothing has to be convoyed anywhere: the rooms, the terraces, the gardens and the rock are one property, and the whole celebration is photographed inside it.
The one decision that does move is the hour. We usually ask that the ceremony begin around two hours before sundown, which leaves the vows, the group pictures and an unhurried portrait set inside the best light of the day — and on this stretch of rock the last of that light hangs on the spray for a few minutes longer than it does on sand. Sundown itself drifts a long way between December and June, so we set your start time against the real sunset for your date rather than a rule of thumb; our notes on the best months for a wedding on this coast map how that moves across the year.
The Wedding Photographer You Chose, and the Hotel’s Paperwork
Ask the hotel in writing, early, how it handles a wedding photographer you bring yourself. Small properties in this bracket usually do one of two things — charge a photographer fee, or sign your photographer in for the day — and both are routine paperwork rather than an obstacle. We settle those terms with the wedding team on your behalf so the morning of the wedding is not the day anyone discovers them. The whole subject is taken apart in our guide to outside-photographer vendor fees, and we set an independent photographer beside the one folded into a package in resort photographer versus your own.
Do You Want the Civil Register, or a Symbolic Wedding on the Rock?
Settle this before we draft anything, because it governs when the ceremony can begin. A civil marriage in Mexico brings witnesses, documents and a stricter clock; a great many couples marry legally at home instead and hold a symbolic ceremony on the terrace, which looks identical through the lens and hands the afternoon back to you. Whichever you choose, we plan the day around it as your Mi Amor Tulum wedding photographer, and we do it with you wherever you happen to be planning from.
A Wedding at Mi Amor? The Date First, the Conversation Right After.
Before anything is booked you sit down with the photographer who will actually be there — over a table or over a call — and between us we work out the hour of the ceremony, where on the rock the portraits happen and exactly what you will be holding afterwards. Every edited photograph is included in every collection; the collections themselves, photo only or photo and video, live on our Tulum wedding page.
Photo, or Photo and Video — and Every Edited Frame Is Yours
What separates one wedding collection from another is how much of the day we are with you, whether one or two photographers cover the ceremony and the party afterwards, and whether a videographer films alongside us. What never separates them is the delivery: every edited photograph from your Mi Amor wedding is included, with no cap on the count and no shortlist to approve.
The collections themselves, what each one covers and what each one costs, live on our Tulum wedding page — where you can also ask us to check your date.
Mi Amor Tulum Wedding Photography — FAQ
Can we bring you as our own wedding photographer to Mi Amor Tulum?
Yes. We are an independent studio on this coast and we photograph weddings along the Tulum shore most weeks, so joining you at Mi Amor as the photographer you chose is ordinary work for us. Hotels of this size normally ask either for a photographer fee or for the photographer to be signed in for the day; we agree that with their wedding team ahead of time so it never becomes your errand.
We have booked you. What actually happens next?
A conversation, and it comes before anything else. One of our lead photographers sits down with you — across a table if you are already in Tulum, on a video call if you are still at home — to hear how you picture the day, walk the hours of it with you, and agree what lands in your hands afterwards. By the time you arrive at the hotel the plan is one you helped write.
Do you film as well, or only photograph?
Both. Our photo and video collections put a dedicated videographer beside the photographers for the ceremony, the toasts and the dancing, with the two working to one plan so neither ends up in the other’s frame. Photo-only collections and photo and video collections are both listed on our Tulum wedding page, and we go through the difference with you in the first conversation.
Is there really room for a ceremony on a cliff?
There is, and it is the reason the pictures look the way they do. The hotel arranges its wedding set-ups on the terraces, in the gardens among the cabanas and out on the rock itself, and the hotel’s wedding team is the right place to confirm what fits your guest list. From our side, every one of those spots has open Caribbean behind it, which is not true of most ceremony sites on this coast.
What time should the ceremony start?
About two hours before sundown, so the vows, the group photographs and your own portrait hour all fall inside the warm light rather than chasing it. Sundown shifts by a long way between winter and midsummer, so we work from the real sunset time for your date. Our guide to the best months on this coast explains how the light and the weather move through the year.
Can we add a cenote session or a day-after shoot around the wedding?
Very often we do. A cenote sits behind the coast road and gives you still water, stone and shafts of light — the opposite of the open horizon at the hotel — and a day-after or trash-the-dress hour on the rock is easier on everyone than squeezing it into the wedding day. Engagement portraits work the same way for couples who arrive early.
Do you charge extra to travel to Tulum for a wedding?
No. We are based on this coast and cover it end to end, so a wedding at Mi Amor carries no travel surcharge from us. The only extra worth putting in your planning is whatever the hotel itself asks for an outside photographer, which we confirm with their wedding team as soon as you book.
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