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Where to have my destination wedding!!??
Hello Everyone!
This is my first time writing and I hope someone can help! We are planning our destination wedding for December 2012 and only inviting our closes friends and immediate family. We have been researching for a couple of months and I was hoping to get some opinions about the resorts in Mexico, Jamaica and DR. We want to keep the costs down for our guests because we want as many of them to come as possible, however, we still want our wedding to be really nice and special!
So far we are leaning towards Dreams Cancun but, I want to hear where others were married/are getting married and your experiences. I think it is important for us to be in an area with a lot of nightlife so our friends stay entertained during their vacation. Any recomendations would be great... If there is another post about this somewhere let me know that, too ~ sorry I am kind of a newbie!
Thank you!
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Re: Where to have my destination wedding!!??
So I say check out Trip Advisor for reviews
We are getting married at the Cancun Palace. It's part of the Palace Resorts chain and is in...you guessed it, Cancun!
It is going to be approx. $2000 for a couple to fly down for 4 days. It's an all inclusive resort so those covers all food and alcohol/drinks for their entire stay. They will also have 3 other resorts that they can go have fun at (Moon, Sun, & Beach Palaces). Also, depending on their length of stay, they get better $500-1500 "Vacation Dollars" that can be used on excursions, room upgrades, romantic beach dinners, upgraded wine, or at the spa.
We're going for 10 days and are spending less then $5000. Also, they have group booking incentives...if we book 25+ rooms, we get 7 nights complimentary AND unlimited private functions (YAY reception!).
We stayed there in 2005 and it's been my favorite out of the places we've been (Cancun, St Thomas, Aruba, and Puerto Rico. in 2005 after we went, hurricane Wilma hit and damaged some of the hotel I guess and the beach, but since then they have done a full renovation of the resort, and the beach has even been fixed some.
If there is anything else I can help with you, just let me know!
Congrats and Welcome!
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I'm actually looking at Playacar Palace after talking with Melissa at Beach Bum Vacations just today. After talking it seems that the Riviera Maya/Playa del Carmen area is better for what we want (more laid back, less clubs, more intimate, less commercial). Like Kayla said.....you can get incentives when your guests book but to do this you have to book all ltogether with the same source (a travel agent). I'd recommend Melissa at Beach Bum for sure!!!!
Palace website: http://www.palaceresorts.com/
If you click on weddings at the top and then click on group benefits you'll see what you can get. We are booking 14 days ourselves and after 15 days get booked we get a free, private, cocktail reception! Also, if you look at their free wedding package it includes a TON in comparison to other resorts. We plan to do this and then use part of our $2000 credit (for booking 2 weeks) towards one of their photography packages.
Also, here is the website for Beach Bum - http://www.beachbumvacation.com/
The website for the The Royal is www.realresorts.com. Follow the link to The Royal Cancun. Good luck!