Traditional San Miguel weddings feature callejoneada and mojigangas

Punlished August 20th, 2023

Something that is always surprising to see in the heritage city and is also very popular, since you have to book up to a year in advance for your special day, are the weddings, which are full of traditions and many customs that San Miguel de Allende wedding planners offer you.

The famous callejoneadas accompanied by the donkey and the mojigangas are said to have more than 20 years being used in the weddings that take place in San Miguel de Allende, but there is no exact date of when they started, what is known is that they are already a tradition.

But, all this magic and wedding tradition can start from the moment you ask for your future wife’s hand, some specialized people will help you make that special moment into something magical, and they will give you several options that this city has to do it and from there continue the planning.

Then follows the famous wedding, but remember that you can start the wedding party one or two days before since you can stay in a hotel or house, go out to the “Ice Breaker Dinner/icebreaker dinner or also known as the party before the party”, where together with friends and family make a very lovely party in some of the terraces and restaurants that will serve precisely to integrate among guests and start the atmosphere before your big day.

From there the big day will follow, that long-awaited day will arrive and to it you can add the famous “callejoneada” that began to be part of the weddings in the heritage city, where they are fun tours through some streets of downtown, accompanied by the famous burrito tequilero and mezcalero, depending on your taste, which is decorated with flowers, after it will follow the estudiantina, mariachi, band or batucada, which will be responsible for putting your guests to dance while they make the tour through the streets.

Within these callejoneadas you can rent the famous mojigangas de novios, but what are these favorite characters that give life to your event, they are a marionette, puppet, or giant sculpture that has an exaggeratedly large head and is made of cardboard / papier mache and then mounted on a structure that supports the head/bust and have a height of 2 to 6 meters.

In addition, they wear a dress of the chosen character, in this case, a wedding couple that goes over the bust and the structure with an opening at the level of the eyes of a dancer, where it goes inside with straps and then it becomes the legs of the mojiganga and can be put to dance with your guests in the callejoneada or you can leave them outside the hall of your event to take the famous photo.

You can have them made by Hermes Arroyo and ask him to create some very similar to the characteristics of the couple or any special character that you would like to accompany you on the route of your wedding festivity, nowadays, they are already a tradition that represents the essence of the callejoneadas of San Miguel de Allende.

You must remember that performing a callejoneada is to generate that all visitors to this heritage city and who are at that time where you pass will surely turn to see you and maybe even join the dance and celebration while the tour lasts.

After your wedding, you can continue the party, something quieter but cozy with family and close friends, where the couple who got married can be in their first event as husband and wife, being their first event as a couple and can in one of the cities with a lot of magic in its streets, so San Miguel de Allende is for many the perfect place to unite their lives in marriage.