Top Unique Destination Wedding Venues in Puerto Vallarta

Some couples know from the start that they don’t want the beach. Not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because they’ve seen the photos, and they want their destination wedding to look like nowhere else. This coast is unusually good for that, because the geography here is complicated in the best way: mountains, jungle, cliffs, a working city, and a bay that curves for thirty miles.

What that produces is a set of venues you genuinely won’t find repeated elsewhere in Mexico. A marble courtyard that looks like southern Europe. A platform cut into a clifftop. A colonial-style plaza with stone pathways. A sky bar. A hotel lobby that turns into a ceremony space when the sun hits it right.

Below are the most distinctive wedding venues across Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit, each one chosen because there’s nothing else quite like it in the region. Our Certified Destination Wedding Specialists can tell you what each one costs to book and how they photograph.

Top Unique Destination Wedding Venues at Top Puerto Vallarta Resorts

These are grouped by how unusual they are rather than by size, and capacities run from 50 to 200.

1. Sunscape Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa

Sunscape Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa has the most surprising venue on this coast. La Placita is a marble garden built around a central fountain and lined with columns, seating 150, and the resort’s own description puts it best: southern Europe or the Caribbean; you’d never guess.

It looks nothing like the Mexican Pacific, which is exactly why couples book it. Family-friendly and Diamond-level, at a price point well below what the setting suggests.

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2. Armony Marival Resort & Spa Punta de Mita

Armony Marival Resort & Spa Punta de Mita puts The Vent at the top of a cliff with panoramic ocean views and nothing behind you but air. It holds 140 for the ceremony, reception, and cocktail hour, and The Vent Garden extends the same position for 80.

Clifftop venues are rare in Mexico and rarer still at a resort that can also house your whole guest list. Out on the Punta de Mita peninsula, about an hour from the airport.

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3. Hotel Mousai Puerto Vallarta

Hotel Mousai Puerto Vallarta offers the Plazoleta, a courtyard for 100 with rustic stone pathways, Spanish-inspired architecture, and blooming flowers around the edges. The Old World character sits oddly and wonderfully against the resort’s very modern tower.

Adults-only and five-star. If you want a ceremony that reads as historic Mexico without leaving the resort, this is the closest thing to it.

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4. Dreams Bahia Mita Surf & Spa Resort

Dreams Bahia Mita Surf & Spa Resort has the Moon Deck, a semi-private elevated venue for 200 looking out over both the ocean and the resort grounds. It’s one of the few wedding venues in the region licensed for a rehearsal dinner as well as the ceremony and cocktail hour.

The Beach Garden and Wooden Deck is the other standout here, an open-air platform of polished wood planks set between garden landscaping and the sand, seating 240.

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5. Secrets Bahia Mita Surf & Spa Resort

Secrets Bahia Mita Surf & Spa Resort has The Nest, a 50-guest venue whose name tells you most of what you need to know. Small, tucked away, and built for a wedding where everyone present actually knows the couple.

Adults-only and Diamond-level at the quiet northern end of the bay near Sayulita. The Moon Deck is available here too for something larger.

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6. Marival Distinct All-Suites & World Spa

Marival Distinct All-Suites & World Spa holds receptions for 80 at the Insu Sky Bar, an elevated bar with chic decor that makes a small wedding feel like a private party at the best address in Nayarit rather than a hotel event.

Five-star and all-suites. The contrast between a Mozzamere Beach ceremony and a sky bar reception is one of the more interesting day structures available here.

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7. Secrets Vallarta Bay Puerto Vallarta

Secrets Vallarta Bay Puerto Vallarta runs ceremonies for 75 in the Secrets Lobby, which sounds unpromising right up until you see it. The space opens toward the water, and with the Vallarta Bay sunset framed behind you, the whole thing turns cinematic.

Adults-only and Diamond-level. It’s also the most weather-proof unusual wedding venue in the region, since it’s fully covered.

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8. Grand Palladium Vallarta Resort & Spa

Grand Palladium Vallarta Resort & Spa has the PTC Sundeck, a modern, glamorous space for 60 that the resort describes as a destination in itself, with architectural detail you don’t usually get in a cocktail hour venue.

It’s also the only resort in the region with a Catholic chapel on the grounds, so an unusual reception can follow a traditional ceremony without anyone getting in a car.

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More Information for Planning Your Unique Destination Wedding in Puerto Vallarta

Unusual wedding venues need a few more questions asked than a standard beach setup. Here’s what our Certified Destination Wedding Specialists check.

Unique Destination Wedding Venues Appeal

Your photos stop looking like everyone else’s. That’s the honest appeal. A beach wedding ceremony in Mexico is beautiful and also familiar, and couples who’ve spent months looking at wedding photography often want something their guests haven’t already seen ten times.

Unusual venues also tend to be smaller, which suits how destination weddings actually work. With our Puerto Vallarta destination wedding couples averaging 23 guests, a 60- or 80-person venue with real character beats a large space that needs filling.

And the setting carries the design. A marble courtyard, a clifftop, or a stone plaza arrives with its own atmosphere, so you’re enhancing something rather than building from nothing. That usually means spending less on decor, not more.

Puerto Vallarta Destination Wedding Cost

The average cost of a destination wedding in Puerto Vallarta is $10,215 all-in for the couple, covering the wedding package, accommodations, airfare, and add-ons. Hotel costs average about $299 per person per night over a typical five-night stay, and airfare runs $200 to $800 per couple. Our Puerto Vallarta couples average 23 guests.

These averages reflect real spend data from couples who booked their destination wedding with our Certified Destination Wedding Specialists.

Specialty wedding venues are the most likely of any category to sit outside the standard package. Clifftop and rooftop spaces in particular can carry setup fees because everything has to be carried up. Get the venue fee confirmed before you commit to the property.

Puerto Vallarta Destination Wedding Packages

Complimentary and deposit-only wedding packages are widely available with a qualifying room block, running roughly $1,350 to $5,000 at entry tier, $5,500 to $7,000 mid-tier, and $7,500 to $14,000 and beyond for full productions.

Entry-tier packages usually specify the standard beach or garden venue. If you want one of the venues above, ask what the upgrade costs at the quote stage rather than discovering it later, because the difference varies a lot between properties.

Puerto Vallarta Destination Wedding Travel Information

Licenciado Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport has direct flights from most major US and Canadian cities. Transfers run 10 to 15 minutes to the hotel zone and Marina Vallarta, 25 to 40 minutes to Nuevo Vallarta, and around an hour to Punta de Mita and the Bahia Mita resorts near Sayulita.

Several of these venues sit further out than the standard hotel-zone properties, so factor the transfer into your guests’ arrival day. The November to April dry season is worth prioritizing for the exposed clifftop and deck venues in particular.

 

Puerto Vallarta Unique Destination Wedding Venue FAQs

What are the most unusual wedding venues in Puerto Vallarta?

The marble courtyard at Sunscape Puerto Vallarta, the clifftop Vent at Armony Marival Punta de Mita, the colonial-style Plazoleta at Hotel Mousai, the Moon Deck and wooden Beach Garden Deck at Dreams Bahia Mita, the Nest at Secrets Bahia Mita, the Insu Sky Bar at Marival Distinct, the sunset lobby ceremony at Secrets Vallarta Bay, and the PTC Sundeck at Grand Palladium Vallarta.

Do unique venues cost more than a beach wedding?

Sometimes, though less often than you’d expect. Venues that are part of the resort’s standard event inventory are usually included in the wedding package the same way a beach is. The ones that can carry a fee are clifftop and rooftop spaces, where the resort has to move staff and equipment up to them.

Are unusual venues suitable for larger weddings?

Up to a point. Most sit between 50 and 150 guests, with the Moon Deck at 200 and the Beach Garden Deck at 240 the largest. If your guest list is above 250, look at the region’s ballrooms, beaches, or garden venues instead, then use a specialty wedding venue for the welcome party or the rehearsal dinner.

Get Ready to Plan the Unique Destination Wedding of Your Dreams in Puerto Vallarta

If you’ve been scrolling through wedding photos thinking they all look the same, this coast has an answer. Marble and columns, a cliff edge over the Pacific, stone pathways and bougainvillea, a wooden deck between garden and sand. Settings with a point of view, at guest counts that suit how destination weddings really work.

Fill out our online wedding planning form, and one of our Certified Destination Wedding Specialists will help you find the setting that fits the wedding you’re picturing.