Tijuana’s Civil Registry is now accepting applications from couples who want to marry in the city’s 2026 LGBTQ+ Collective Marriages ceremony, scheduled for June 26. Registration remains open through June 19 at the Palacio Municipal or any of the 11 municipal Civil Registry offices across Tijuana.
The program, organized under Mayor Ismael Burgueño Ruiz’s administration, waives all fees for the civil ceremony. Couples are also exempt from the mandatory premarital counseling sessions typically required for a Mexican civil marriage. The exact venue for the June 26 ceremony has not yet been confirmed.
How to Register and What to Bring
Couples can register Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the main Civil Registry office inside Palacio Municipal or at any delegación-level office in the municipality. Required documents include a birth certificate, official government-issued ID, a certified CURP (Mexico’s unique population registry code), and premarital medical screening results.
Foreign nationals or U.S. residents who hold Mexican residency documents should confirm with the Civil Registry whether their specific IDs qualify. The CURP can be obtained or verified online through the Mexican government’s RENAPO website, and premarital blood tests are available at clinics throughout Tijuana.
Part of a Broader City Program
This is not Tijuana’s first mass wedding event in 2026. In January, the city announced a Valentine’s Day collective wedding open to all couples, with officials confirming at the time that a separate ceremony for LGBTQ+ couples would follow in June. Last year, the city held a similar LGBTQ+ collective marriage campaign for the first time under the Burgueño administration, with the 2025 ceremony taking place at the Casa de la Cultura in Playas de Tijuana.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Baja California since 2021, when the state’s congress reformed its civil code. Collective wedding campaigns like this one remove the cost barrier for couples who might otherwise pay several thousand pesos in civil registry fees, legal document preparation, and counseling session charges.
Couples interested in participating have less than a month to gather documents and register. The Civil Registry’s Oficialía 01 coordinates the campaign across all 11 municipal offices. The ceremony venue is expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
First reported by Jornada BC.