saric83

@ Shan - We actually don't have them up on a link since we got the rights to the pictures and just have them all on a CD. But shoot me an email, and I can definitely send them to you. [email protected]

Thanks! We actually decided not to go with the DJ, so, unfortunately, I'm no help there. We hired the mariachi band for the first 45 minutes, which lots of people danced to. And then we just had our iPod playing in a docking station, and we just had lots of old-school laid-back music. Then after we jumped in the pool and all needed showers, those who wanted to dance changed and headed out to karokee night at one of the bars in the hotel, and then we went out to Margaritaville.

I thought they were great, and they made for a few beautiful pictures. BUT be forewarned that they burned us! We were standing behind the table (I've seen in some other videos that people were in front, so maybe that would have helped?), and there must have been a good gust of wind. I didn't care since I had no intentions of trying to sell my dress or save it for a future daughter, but there are little burn marks all over the back of my dress and veil. And I even noticed later that there is a burn hole right through my bra. It made for a funny story and video as everyone in the wedding party was squirmming to get out of the way, but if you're concerned about your dress, watch out. Here are some pictures of it:

How exciting! : ) We didn't do a separate cocktail hour (we did one the night before instead) and just had the dinner function set up for three and half hours. So I'm sure it could work, but I'm not sure how they set up additional furniture for the cocktail hour. Maybe you could see if they could do the cocktail hour down on the beach or something (there will be an additional $6 per person set up for the beach location), and then have the dinner up at the terrace? We wanted all of our tables set up on one side of the pool instead of 20 people on one side and 20 on the other since it felt weird without a dance floor in the middle, so you could get three tables set up on each side of the pool with the dance floor in the middle (below is a picture from another wedding I saw on here where they had a dance floor, so you can see how that looks.) But I would probably suggest going with smaller set-ups for the lounge stuff. You could let them give you suggestions for what would fit amongst everything else since there might be some random little areas that could fit a lounge area for four people and then a couple for six or whatever. Larger sets of 10 might be a little too tight amongst all of the tables and the dance floor. Another thing that was nice is that people obviously go up to the bar, so that's another full area that give people room to hang out. If you haven't already done it, I would definitely recommend doing some kind of additional lighting through Zuniga. It's bright enough with the lighting up there, but it helps to give it softer light. We went with 16 tiki torches, which we loved, but the lighting in the picture above with the dance floor looks so cool, and we saw a beach wedding with it too, and it looked great! We went with the Mexican buffet since we figured that was the safest choice with appealing to a lot of people, and we really liked it! It was different from what we had been eating all week (the only thing that was similar was the fajita meat, which was good : )), and a lot of people commented about how they loved it. When we did the welcome cocktail hour the night before, we went with the International Hors d'oeuvre menu, and they were really good too. We got our professional pictures back now, so here are a few more pictures where you can see the layout better. You can see the entire empty side where you could set more tables up. We had four tables of 10. You can see the buffet behind them, which was set up all along the back-side where the two terraces connect, so it was perfect and out of the way. Let me know if you have ANY other questions I can help with!! : )

Not for the ceremony, but we brought things for our reception. But the ceremony set-up was beautiful as is.

We went with the Diamond package for the ceremony, so all of that was included and was beautiful!!

We just got married at Beach Palace last weekend, and we went through Adrianna (she's just the sales coordinator - not the photographer), and we LOVED the photographer. I haven't seen the pictures yet, but we were so happy with him and the videographer (both from Smile.) Also, we ended up not using the sound system through him, but we went back and forth with Erik about just having an iPod docking station, and he was so nice and very very fast at responding, so I would imagine that he would be a good bet for being able to clearly communicate what you want. Good luck! : )

Hey ladies! We just got back from BP, and we loved it!! There were definitely a few little snafus along the way, but we're so happy with the overall way everything turned out. Here are some pictures....If you want to see more or have any specific questions that I can help with, let me know! Welcome cocktail hour on the beach Beautiful rooms! Diamond wedding package set-up (but I think these are all being replaced by different packages : () We had a private function dinner at the South Sky Terrace (that and the north are the exact same set-up) Another angle, so you can see the side. FYI - the tiki torches were rented separately through the decor company. Another angle....all of our tables are set up to the left, and then the area where the mariachi band played is directly behind the camera-taker. This is one of our bridesmaids at the rooftop terrace right after the ceremony, but you can see how it overlooks onto the North Sky Terrace (we were on the other side, but it's the same layout just flipped) Nearly everyone ended up in the pool by the end of the night. : ) You can see the start of our tables to the right, and we also rented some lounge furniture from Zuniga (same decor place where the tiki torches came from.)

Hey ladies! We're getting married at Beach Palace on December 3rd with 35 guests, so we'll make sure to get tons of pictures to post on here. I was totally in the same boat of feeling uncomfortable without being able to find too many pictures or wedding reviews, but so far we've been really happy with the planning process and options, and we can't wait to have the ceremony there! Here's what we have booked: No rehearsal (there is a $200 set-up fee to use the area, and I thought it was kind of a waste), but we're doing a welcome cocktail hour with appetizers on the beach on Friday from 4-5pm. We skipped doing a full dinner since we didn't want it to feel too much like the wedding. *FYI - there's an additional $6pp charge to use the beach area on top of the regular charge for the cocktail hour. Ceremony at 4:30pm on Saturday on the rooftop sky terrace. We're going with the Diamond package because I didn't want to worry about decorations, and it included some things that we would paid separately for (photography, a musician for the ceremony, fireworks, cake, and video), so it ended up being worth it overall. Plus, we applied all of our $1500 resort credit towards it. Private function dinner on South Terrace (pool side on the level right below the ceremony location) from 5:30-8:30pm (ditto on additional charge for using this location versus some of the other spots that are free) Mariachi band for 45 minutes during dinner Upgraded photography session We contemplated getting a sound system to be able to play an iPod for our background dinner music (we don't want dancing), but our parents are just going to bring their Bose docking station, so we'll use that instead. Lounge furniture from the decor company through the resort I'm sorry for the super long post, but hopefully, this will be somewhat helpful!