A Modern Cabo Wedding With Mirrored Rooftop Disco Balls

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Christy and Austin’s wedding in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, ran on black, white and mirror, and By Julieta photographed it perfectly. Julieta is a Los Cabos local, and her frames treat the board formed concrete, the Land’s End rocks and the rooftop disco balls as one continuous story. Planning and production came from Arianna Ocampo, with design by Ana Hidalgo, and the result is a weekend that looks deliberate from the first lace robe to the last song.

Location: Baja California Sur, Mexico
Style: Modern, Romantic, Glamorous
Time of planning: 15 months
Number of guests: 82
Setting: Oceanfront Resort
Season: Spring

Christy and Austin met on a night out in Chicago, and the connection was easy from the start. Their relationship has always run on laughter, travel, adventure and a real talent for enjoying life together. Austin proposed during a relaxing weekend getaway to Sedona that Christy expected to be a quiet escape, and the privacy and surprise of the moment made it one of the most intimate weekends of their lives.

Cabo had already become a special place for the two of them, so choosing it for the wedding felt completely natural. Their brief was a weekend with all their favorite people that felt romantic, elevated and intimate while staying genuinely fun, with guests who could let go, be fully present and leave knowing they had been part of something special. Wild Oak Films captured the weekend on film, Ashley Bunten Design created the stationery, and Christy says the whole thing delivered everything they had hoped for and more.

Bride's Morning & Fashion

The getting ready look plays straight into the hotel’s 1960s Baja meets Southern California design story: a sheer lace robe over a lace short set, a drink in hand and a balcony wall of stacked dark blocks behind her. Christy wore the Loren gown by Renhue, found through Lovely Bride in Phoenix.

Renhue was founded by Maggie Wilson and Tara Strobach. The label calls its gowns future vintage, and this one backs the claim up, because its only ornament is the shape itself. Christy loved its simplicity and the way it makes a strong statement with zero embellishment, which is exactly what she had pictured.

She added a cathedral veil trimmed in satin and kept the rest of the styling intentionally minimal so the gown stays the headline. The most meaningful piece was a diamond tennis bracelet passed down from Austin’s mother, worn with diamond studs, and it gives a pared back look a family history that no stylist could source. Tennis bracelets owe their name to Chris Evert stopping a US Open match to search the court for hers, so an heirloom version on a wedding day carries a little sports lore along with the sentiment.

Her shoes were Jimmy Choo, and her scent was Baccarat Rouge by Maison Francis Kurkdjian, the amber fragrance that started life as a commission for the Baccarat crystal house and became a fixture of TikTok perfume culture.

Hair and makeup by Los Cabos Makeup followed Christy’s own brief to feel like the best version of herself, glamorous and polished while still natural enough to look and feel like her. The sleek low chignon pulled fully off the face and the warm, bronzed skin are built for Baja sun and a strapless neckline. Her bridesmaids wore powder blue satin cut, and it keeps the palette from turning clinical.

Groom’s Fashion

Austin went classic with a custom black tuxedo, a bow tie and satin lapels, finished with Gucci patent leather shoes. The patent shine is the menswear version of the mirrored installations waiting on the rooftop, and the simplicity of his look lines up with the design of the whole wedding.

First Look

The first look played out inside the hotel’s concrete passages, designed by Mexico City architect Javier Sánchez, where board formed walls with exposed tie holes work like a neutral studio backdrop for a white gown and a black tux. The texture of that concrete gives Christy’s smooth bodice something hard to read against, and the dark walls push every bit of white in the frame forward.

Ceremony

The ceremony sat on a garden terrace overlooking the ocean at The Cape, with two blocks of black chairs set into pale sand between palms, desert planting and white boulders. From above, the curving path and planted beds read like a Roberto Burle Marx landscape plan, and the dark seating turns the aisle into a graphic stripe across the ground.

Floweriize kept the altar open and built low drifts of white phalaenopsis orchids and hydrangea at the end of the aisle, so the Land’s End rocks behind the couple became the actual backdrop. Guests held white parasols against the Baja sun, and from the back rows the scene is pure Seurat, a waterfront crowd under pale canopies.

A violinist and a cellist from Cabo Violin played throughout, and Christy walked down the aisle to Cornfield Chase from Interstellar. Hans Zimmer built that theme around a church organ, so moving it to two strings by the sea strips out the cathedral scale and keeps the pulse, which suits a ceremony the couple wanted to feel intimate, meaningful and personal.

Los Cabos Wedding Minister officiated. Christy describes the walk as almost cinematic, with the music, the ocean and Austin waiting for her surrounded by their closest family and friends. They knew the setting would be beautiful, and actually standing there together turned out to be something completely different, intimate despite the grandeur of everything around them.

Moments Together & Cocktail Hour

By Julieta took the newlyweds through the hotel’s wooden louver facade and an open concrete stair, framing the gown against hard edges and tropical planting. Julieta times the late sun so it warms the white of the dress while the black tux holds its depth.

Cocktail hour moved to an oceanfront terrace built around a round bar under draped fabric, a cabana silhouette that matches the hotel’s retro resort mood. The drinks came in short glasses with chili salt rims and dehydrated citrus wheels, an orange and blush lineup that brings the only warm color of the day and nods to the Mexican habit of salting and spicing every citrus drink.

Christy and Austin wanted the wedding to feel like an experience from beginning to end, with moments unfolding throughout the day instead of everything being revealed at once, and the jump from strings on the terrace to a cabana bar above the surf gives each part of the day its own personality and its own sense of discovery.

Reception

The reception took over the rooftop, with panoramic views of the ocean and Cabo’s famous landscape. Arianna Ocampo and the Ana Hidalgo design team installed a mirrored square pavilion over a high gloss white dance floor, ringed by long white tables with white upholstered chairs and black ones, with production by Bunker Project Studio and rentals from Yaya Rentals.

Silver disco balls in mixed sizes hang from the frame, mirrored spheres reflected whoever walks past. Floweriize filled the tables with low and tall white arrangements and clustered candles in glass, while freestanding black panels around the edges add graphic weight.

The design started with the couple’s own inspiration: a mostly neutral palette lifted with high contrast black and white details, layers of texture, candlelight and reflective elements that interact with the ocean. They shared that direction with Arianna and gave her and her creative team the freedom to interpret it, and the mirrored installations, suspended disco balls, abundant white florals, sculptural details and sleek black accents grew from there.

"The contrast between the organic beauty of Cabo and the more polished, contemporary design elements became one of our favorite aspects of the wedding."

Christy and Austin, the couple

The newlyweds made their entrance onto the rooftop and went directly into their first dance. It opened with the acoustic version of Cinema, an intimate moment for the two of them surrounded by family and their closest friends, and then flipped into the Skrillex version just as Cabo Fireworks Co lit up the sky over the ocean.

The white cake carried the same discipline as the rest of the rooftop, three tiers finished in vertical piped ridges and topped with white blooms, set among candles in hurricane glass against a dark wall lit with gold script. Alex DJ Cabo Events took the night from there, and Vivolx handled transportation for guests.

Advice from the couple:

• Our biggest advice is to find a planner and creative team whose taste and vision you genuinely trust. Share what inspires you, communicate the feeling you want your wedding to have, and then give them the creative freedom to take it somewhere you may not have imagined yourself.

• We would also encourage couples to focus their energy and investment on the details that genuinely excite them rather than feeling obligated to follow every wedding tradition. Some of our favorite moments came from doing things a little differently.

• Ultimately, the most memorable weddings feel personal. Choose what feels like you, trust the people you have hired, and then allow yourself to be fully present and enjoy it.