Costa Rica Wedding Photos
Not highlights.
Stories.
Real Costa Rica weddings, elopements and proposals photographed from Guanacaste and Papagayo to Arenal, Monteverde, Manuel Antonio and the Caribbean coast. These full galleries tell complete documentary wedding stories, so you can see how the light, landscape, people and energy of a real day work together.
A wedding is not one
perfect photograph.
It is what happens between them.
The galleries below are arranged like visual sentences rather than a catalogue. Large frames slow you down. Smaller fragments move the story forward. The space between them matters too.
Open any named story to see the complete gallery.
Where the air
changes the pace.
Rainforest wedding photography in Costa Rica has its own visual language: mist over Arenal, moving water at La Paz, cloud forest in Monteverde and light that can change completely within minutes. These galleries show how I work with that weather rather than fighting it, keeping the landscape present while the people and the wedding remain the story.
ARENAL / RAINFORESTRain Was Invited TooFor couples who’d rather have atmosphere than a perfect forecast.A rainforest wedding at The Springs in La Fortuna, shaped by volcanic weather and the deep green of Arenal.VIEW STORY →
LA PAZ / WATERFALLLoud Water, Quiet VowsNo guests, just the sound of the forest and each other.An intimate Costa Rica waterfall elopement where moving water, rainforest and quiet portraits carry the story.VIEW STORY →
MONTEVERDE / CLOUD FORESTInside the CloudFor couples who’d rather disappear than be watched.A Monteverde elopement story shaped by cloud forest, cool air and the changing light of Costa Rica’s highlands.VIEW STORY →
ARENAL / VOLCANIC LIGHTThe Night Got LouderFor couples who care more about the party than the portraits.Arenal wedding photography at The Springs, following the celebration through tropical weather, portraits and evening.VIEW STORY →The day moves.
The photographs remember.
Heat. Salt.
Open sky.
Pacific-coast wedding photography in Costa Rica is shaped by strong tropical sun, long horizons, dry-season color and wind arriving before sunset. From Playa Conchal, Avellanas and Matapalo in Guanacaste to the jungle-meets-ocean landscapes of Manuel Antonio and Dominical, these stories show how a coastal celebration moves from bright afternoon light into the softer, less predictable energy of evening.
CONCHAL / GUANACASTEDressed Up, Barefoot LaterA polished resort wedding that still felt like them.A Westin Reserva Conchal wedding balancing a polished destination setting with the natural rhythm of the Pacific coast.VIEW STORY →
PLAYA CONCHAL / PACIFICSalt, Speeches, SunsetEveryone we love, one long warm evening by the sea.A Playa Conchal wedding story photographed through the changing color, movement and tropical light of Guanacaste.VIEW STORY →
AVELLANAS / GUANACASTEWe Skipped the TimelineBarefoot, no schedule. The ocean set the pace.A Playa Avellanas elopement where the beach, the weather and the couple set the pace instead of a traditional timeline.VIEW STORY →
MATAPALO / GUANACASTENobody Sat DownFor couples whose guests came to dance.A Guanacaste destination wedding at Matapalo Beach, moving from the coast into a high-energy reception.VIEW STORY →
MANUEL ANTONIO / PACIFICAbove the Trees, Facing the SeaJungle behind us, the Pacific in front of us.A Hotel Costa Verde wedding surrounded by Manuel Antonio’s tropical landscape and Pacific views.VIEW STORY →
DOMINICAL / SOUTH PACIFICA House at the Edge of the JungleFor couples who wanted their own world for a weekend.A private-villa wedding above Dominical with jungle, mountain and ocean views.VIEW STORY →Some stories begin
before the wedding.
Not every Costa Rica love story needs a full wedding day. Proposals in Papagayo and La Fortuna, intimate cloud-forest elopements and smaller Caribbean celebrations depend even more on timing, privacy and a real understanding of the location. The scale changes; the documentary attention does not.
PAPAGAYO / PROPOSALDidn’t See It ComingPlanned for weeks so it would feel spontaneous for one second.A Costa Rica proposal at El Mangroove in Papagayo, built around privacy, timing and a genuine reaction.VIEW STORY →
LA FORTUNA / PROPOSALOnly OnceA moment nobody gets to repeat, so nothing was staged.A La Fortuna waterfall proposal planned around the location, light and enough space for the moment to stay private.VIEW STORY →
CLOUD FOREST / COSTA RICAWinter in the TropicsSweaters, fog and vows in the mountains. Not the Costa Rica you expected.A Villa Blanca cloud-forest elopement photographed in one of Costa Rica’s quieter, more atmospheric landscapes.VIEW STORY →
PUERTO VIEJO / CARIBBEANLet It PourTropical rain, loud color, a small crowd. The Caribbean on its own terms.A Puerto Viejo wedding at Punta Uva where Caribbean weather and the surrounding landscape become part of the photographs.VIEW STORY →Different places.
Same attention.
Crissorama is rooted in Costa Rica, but destination wedding photography sometimes follows the story elsewhere. These galleries from Mexico, Yosemite and Nicaragua show the same approach in very different landscapes: observe first, understand the place, and let the photographs inherit something from where the celebration actually happened.
VALLE DE GUADALUPE / MEXICODry Heat, Long TablesVineyards, dust and everyone at one table.A Valle de Guadalupe destination wedding photographed among vineyards and the warm landscape of Baja California.VIEW STORY →
YOSEMITE / CALIFORNIASmall Against the GraniteA ceremony made tiny by the landscape, on purpose.A quiet Yosemite elopement shaped by the scale, stillness and changing natural light of the Sierra Nevada.VIEW STORY →
GRANADA / NICARAGUAAn Island of Our OwnAway from everything, then out into the colonial streets.An intimate destination wedding on Isleta el Espino outside Granada, photographed as a complete sense of place.VIEW STORY →Yours will not look
exactly like any of these.
That is the point. Tell me where you are going, who is coming, and what you want the day to feel like.