Good for you for sticking to your plans! My fiance and I love Cancun and planned to get married there too. We put a down payment on a wedding package at the Gran Caribe in January for our November wedding, even though some of our guest were unsure and skeptical about travelling to Mexico. We kept reassuring people that Cancun is safe everytime bad press came out about Mexico. Then, this one horible story came out. It involved a woman from our home town who travelled to Playa Del Carmen with her fiance. She alleged that Mexican police arrested them and rapped her multiple times while they beat her fiance. I was horified when I briefly heard the story on the radio, but after reading the details of this story, my fiance and I thought the whole thing sounded sketchy. However, the damage was done. People thought I was nuts to go there. Some friends and family didn't want to go. We ended up cancelling the wedding in Cancun and booked a date at the Dreams Palm Beach Punta Cana DR. It did take a lot of stress off of us, but there's no place quite like Cancun. Part of me wishes we had not cancelled.
Good for you for sticking to your plans! My fiance and I love Cancun and planned to get married there too. We put a down payment on a wedding package at the Gran Caribe in January for our November wedding, even though some of our guest were unsure and skeptical about travelling to Mexico. We kept reassuring people that Cancun is safe everytime bad press came out about Mexico. Then, this one horible story came out. It involved a woman from our home town who travelled to Playa Del Carmen with her fiance. She alleged that Mexican police arrested them and rapped her multiple times while they beat her fiance. I was horified when I briefly heard the story on the radio, but after reading the details of this story, my fiance and I thought the whole thing sounded sketchy. However, the damage was done. People thought I was nuts to go there. Some friends and family didn't want to go. We ended up cancelling the wedding in Cancun and booked a date at the Dreams Palm Beach Punta Cana DR. It did take a lot of stress off of us, but there's no place quite like Cancun. Part of me wishes we had not cancelled.