shmanderz

Yes I only had to pay day pass for Del Sol

I found a pic that sort of shows the table they had the cake on for us. We were laughing because the cake wasnt cutting and the fondant was just pressing down under the knife. It was pretty funny.

The cake was on tall small square table that had wheels and they rolled it out to the center area when the cake was being cut. As for the table layout, I was told they only had round tables by the coordinator but I asked Mario, my on-site planner about the Imperial table set up (1 long table) and he was able to confirm it for us and we had it for the welcome dinner on the palenque terrace. When I was planning, my Palace Resorts wedding coordinator was not much help at all and took forever to get back to me but as soon as I was put in contact with Mario my on-site planner who was actually based out of Beach Palace, he was able to give me confirmation on everything super quickly. The Palace Resort coordinators are kind of useless for anything Beach Palace specific because they basically have to contact someone at Beach Palace to get answers to questions since they dont actually work at the hotel...but dont worry too much, when the 90 days to event time comes, your on-site coordinator gives you their full attention and things start happening much faster and you wil find you are able to get them to be more flexible with stuff. The first coordinator made it sound like "no they only have round tables' but then after talking with Mario he gave me a bunch of different options for table layouts and stuff. He even threw in colored napkins for the welcome dinner when I was told they only had white linens. There is lots of wiggle room so just make sure you talk with your on-site planner to get the real answer

I just used the cake with the complimentary package. We chose the marble cake option with fondant icing...and you know what? It was so delicious. Fondant usually is really nasty but this version of it was so awesome. All the guests were raving about the cake! The fondant was rolled nicely on it and it looked super cute with our flowers and cake topper. The only thing I would change was for them to leave off the icing decoration detail they added to the sides. In the heat and humidity the side icing detail slid down and looked really bad in photos but honestly at the time I didnt even notice it and no body else did either. Personally I would not spend a ton of money on a cake because the whole evening just flys by and the cake cutting was such a minor moment and then they wisk it away and cut it all up to serve. I am really glad I did not upgrade the cake like I was planning on doing.

The Sky Deck is where the ceremony is held and it is accessed by a staircase located on the rooftop Sky Terrace pool area. The Sky Deck for the ceremony is completely private and has amazing 360 degree views of the ocean. Now as for the The Rooftop Sky Terraces, they split into two areas: The north pool is open to the public all day and night while the other south rooftop pool area is used for events. We had our cocktail hour on the ocean side of the south pool and then moved over to the lagoon side of the pool for the dinner. The dance floor was in the middle area between the two spaces. As for privacy during the reception, we did have one or two people looking into the event during dinner and stuff but we had no trouble with people crashing the party. The ladies bathroom is actually on the south pool private event side so they cannot completely block off the area because of the people using the North pool/bar area in the evening. But honestly i never saw anyone at our event that we didnt know. You could definitely tell it was a private event. Hope that answers your question! They flowers in the bouquets are from Maya Floral and I had also asked for extra flowers for our hair which Marvin included complimentary. I decided to order fake hair flowers from Esty at the last minute just incase and I am so glad that I did because the flowers provided by Maya floral for the hair were beautiful but very small. The fake orchids I ordered for our hair from Etsy were so awesome and nice and large and they were glued to hair clips so they stayed in all night without wilting like real flowers. I ended up using the hair flowers from Maya on the cake so it worked out great!

Hi ladies, I got some of my photos back from Del Sol and I thought I would share! It took about 8 weeks but it was definitely worth the wait. The photos turned out amazing!! The USB drive with all the other photos is being couriered this week so I am excited to see all the rest. Sol and Jorge were our photographers and they were so great. I would highly reccomend Del Sol when choosing a photographer. They are a little more expensive but I am so happy we decided to splurge on the photographs because my memory of the day is not very good due to excitement and adrenaline and Del Sol was able to capture moments and things that I had forgot about or missed. Here is the link to my album: