kather2008

@kokobellaa Hi! My overall experience was great I definitely recommend beach palace! I did not have a dance floor, but I had two standing light trees that designated the dance area. I hope your wedding turns out Beautiful & Congrats !! -Kat

Hi Girls! I came back to the thread as promised and posted some pictures to my album of the pearl shimmer package ceremony & reception. I also posted a picture of my makeup by Tania Tangle and some of my professional pictures from photos in cancun. Please let me know if you have any questions because I know how stressful it was for me during the planning process. I hope you enjoy! -Kat

Hi!! @@yancn I am really happy my review helped! If I was you I would not ask them because the wedding coordinator will just try to charge you. The day of the wedding just ask for a potential extension. I found they were more flexible the day or days lending to the wedding, when I was already on site. The Photography package is just a basic package of 30 pictures I believe and they only over the ceremony. This is why i ended up hiring outside (Photos in Cancun) they were really affordable and took gorgeous pictures. Overall I would definitely recommend the pearl shimmer the set up was gorgeous and I felt it was worth the money especially after I applied the resort credits to the package. let me know if you have more questions! -Kat

Hi Everyone! Okay below is my full review and I created an album with pictures guests took from their phones. 1. Beach Palace Experience Overall: Great with a rating of an A- · Wedding Coordinator (Marco Antonio Chuc Dzul) I was really frustrated with Marco throughout the process because it would take me at least two weeks and several calls to get anything I wanted sorted out. It was not until a week before the wedding that Marco did a 360 and was the best coordinator I could have asked for. He started answering my emails almost instantly and on our in person appointment he made sure everything I wanted was included. The day of the wedding he went above and beyond to make sure I was 100% happy. · Beach Palace the actual hotel look and feel The actual hotel is beautiful; I would recommend either an ocean front room or concierge level room. The service is great as well. · Welcome Dinner in the tequila Restaurant the day before the wedding The dinner buffet was organized nicely, they set up a whole section of the restaurant for our group. The only problem we ran into were some day passes issues I will go into this in more details in the day pass section lol. · Day Passes The Day Passes are the reason why I gave Beach Palace a rating of A- . The Day Passes are just a nightmare. It is really crazy to have to force all your guests to book in the palace resorts chain, especially if they are having financial issues. An example of one of the day passes issues is that we had two guests that stayed in different resort and they were more than willing to pay for the day passes for the wedding day. The problem occurred when they attempted to attend the welcome dinner the day before the wedding at around 930pm. They offered the manager to pay full for the day passes for the next day and pay half for the welcome dinner since they will only be staying for a maybe an hour and half, this would have been a total of 300 dollars. The manager will not accommodate this at all he was really stuck to his ways about them having to pay day passes the day of wedding plus welcome dinner without any discounts. I had to almost to be in tears because of how insulted I was about the whole situation for the manager to come around and agree to give the day passes for half for the welcome dinner. As a bride it was really stressful and really unnecessary since theses guests were paying full day passes the next day. · Vendor Fees I got out of paying for vendor fees by just asking for day passes for my makeup artist and my two photographers Derek & Lorena. I rented two string lights for the reception from Zungia and used JSAV music equipment & additional lights. I created my own dj mix for the reception & cocktail hour. Overall I would recommend future brides to literally just tell them you need day passes and state the name of the vendor you need the day pass for and that’s it. · Ceremony 6:00PM The ceremony was in the Sky Terrance and it was absolutely perfect! I was so happy with how it turned out. I used the pearl shimmer package and it was gorgeous! The pearl shimmer included a violist and they played the sounds I requested and fit the mood perfectly. We choose 6pm for the ceremony and in May/June I believe it was the perfect time because the sun is going down and it’s not too hot. In addition the colors of the sky look great as well. At end of the ceremony we had fireworks and it was a nice touch as well. It was short & sweet. · Cocktail 7:00PM & Reception 8:00PM (1)Palenque terrace We had both our cocktail & Reception in the palenque terrace. We only had 20 guests and I was hesitate about the space I thought it might be too big for only 20 guests yet the wedding coordinator made use of the space and it was perfect. I realize many other brides have gotten married in the north terrace but I personally loved & preferred the view, privacy & space of the Palenque terrace. I saw other weddings while I was there in the north Terrance and sometimes the layout was a little strange because of the pool being in the middle. I could definitely see though the north Terrance working for other brides, it’s still beautiful. I will post a picture as soon as I get them. (2)Reception Tables I used the pearl shimmer collection tables and mixed & match fabrics. I bought menus, place cards & table numbers that match from etsy. I will post a picture as soon as I get them. (3)Zungia & JSAV The string lights & candles I ordered from Zungia were perfect and exactly the look I was looking for. JSAV lights were great as well because it designated the dance floor for the reception area. 2)Photography (Photos In Cancun) Rating of A+ This is probably one of the best decisions I made throughout the process. I hired Derek & Lorena almost a year and half ago when I first started my wedding planning they were sweethearts from day 1. My husband and I meet both of them two days before the wedding just to go over details and so they could get to know us as a couple. Let me just tell you guys I am a very detailed person and I was willing to pay more, I just wanted a great photographs and I happen to choose one that was actually very affordable compared to other photographer’s. The other photographers I was looking at was Del Sol they have really impressive photos as well but I fell in love with a sun rise shoot of Derek & Lorena it was just breathtaking. They provide you all your pictures at the end of the night in a USB, I looked at them and they are so beautiful!! I really am so happy with having them capture our special day. Unfortunately my husband left the USB in the villa we were staying at so the housekeeper is mailing them to us L. As soon as I get them I will post some of the pictures. These are just raw pictures without edits and they are still so beautiful!! Derek & Lorena provide the raw pictures and you tell them which ones you want them to edit, there’s a limit depending on the wedding package you choose. At the end of the night of the wedding, they were seriously our friends, all our guests were telling us how wonderful they are. I highly recommend them, fabulous couple & photographers! 3)Makeup + Hair (Tania Tangle) Rating of A+ Tania + her assistant are wonderful! This was one of the best decisions I made because I was so happy for her work. I am usually extremely picky with makeup and have actually gotten upset over professionals doing my makeup but Tania was a totally different experience. They arrived on time at 2PM and went straight to work. She sat me in from of the ocean with relaxing music and it was really soothing. I sent her a couple of looks beforehand so she already knew exactly what I wanted. We talked throughout the process and she is real sweetheart! Really loved her and her work! So professional and clean! She is worth the money I highly recommend her!! She told me she will send me pictures she took my makeup so when she does I will post it on here for you girls to see J! I know this was really long, but previous brides helped me so much and I felt I had to provide a detail review as well. Hope you enjoy and please let me know if you have any more questions. -Kat

Hi Girls! We just got back from our wedding & honeymoon. I just want to let everyone know I was one of the most stressed out brides I believe beach palace has seen with the amount emails I sent throughout the process lol. I have to admit everything at the end did turn out exactly the way I wanted, so rests assure literally a week before your wedding your wedding coordinator will have 100% attention on your wedding. I will post a full review either tomorrow or weekend. -Kat

Hi- Yes my wedding planner was Elizabeth Yanez before they switched me to Mario about two weeks ago. I am actually in the same situation. I basically told the wedding coordinator that I just need day passes for them and that they are not guests of the wedding essentially. I guess I will find out soon what the outcome is. -Kat

Thank you for the info! It has been extremely frustrating, going back and fore with the contract and now to find out I am being passed on to someone else. I will call them asap. Thanks again!

Hey- Who is your wedding planner, I recently received an email stating Elizabeth will no longer be my wedding planner now its Macro? -Kat

Hi- Great Idea! I was thinking of something similar. A playlist for the cocktail hour, while guests are eating, and a dancing playlist. -Kat

Hi! I am having the Mexican Hors D'Oeuvres for the Cocktail and Buffect Mexicano for reception. Side Note: I am also having a playlist with no DJ. Do you have a playlist you created already? Thank you! -Kat

Thank you so much!