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So, after seeing pictures... I am sold on the coral beach wedding.. and palmeras beach reception! with Palmeras grill as a backup if it rains! I am soooooo excited!!!!! I just hope it doesn't rain, and it isn't too windy! Because of Christmas my guests are choosing to wait until January to book. Cut off for deposits are Feb 1st. But im thinking approx. 35 people are coming give or take a few. We haven't been in contact with our wedding coordinator, only our travel agent wedding specialist has (she is going to take care of the details for us) Question for brides, how the heck did you get your dresses down there? and also, for Strawberry Package.. who did you contact to book massages etc. I have heard you have to do this ahead of time as its part of your package!

HI! Claudia is my wedding planner as well! We are getting married at the Tropical Oct 29, 2014 (tentative)... we arrive on Oct 26... not sure they will allow us to get married/have our ceremony that day yet, but it is reserved. I notice from your pics you had a beach reception. I am worried about wind. I have been to mexico many times and have always found the beaches super windy at night! We were thinking of looking at the Palmeras grill for reception... but I wanted some input as to what people thought about the beach and the wind. Also if you have seen the palmeras. We have about 35 or so guests. I am also wondering when the ACTUAL planning starts. So far we havent even picked a package but pretty much settled on Strawberry. However, have not heard anything from our wedding planner personally.. (i do have a destination wedding planner here in Vancouver being the middle man as well). Im assuming all the back and forth will start once we have confirmed deposits from our guests and the trip is paid in full in march? also, do they have speaker and ipod hookup during the ceremony? We are trying to budget for approx $5,000. Because on the second week my "husband" and I will be switching and going up to the Excellence Playa Mujeres for our honeymoon. Coral beach is where we were thinking as well... is it private? Im excited that Claudia was of great help for planning... there is a lot of uncertainty with mexico weddings!

Quote: Originally Posted by mellie14 Have you been in contact with one of the wedding coordinators yet? Once you are, they should start sending you each step at a time, I believe there are 8 steps in the planning process (ceremony, music, cocktail hour, reception, flowers and decoration, photography, etc...) Mine has sent me many photos of my options from beach locations, centerpieces, huppa options, banquet room set up photos, flowers. If you ask for photos they are usually good about sending them. I have found the planning to be very easy and low stress! Best moments is not part of the resort but they have an agreement with the resort so they do not require you to pay a vendor fee for them to come in for the day. Here is the website: http://thebestmoments.com.mx/. They will email you the current prices if you send them a message. I think I am paying around 350 for a trial run and day of makeup and hair but this was one of the more expensive packages and there are others to choose from. Playa Azul was my second choice for the ceremony, it is a beautiful beach. My fiancé and I have been to Barceló Maya before and it is absolutely gorgeous, you will love it! If you want me to email you any photos let me know, I will see what I have! No we haven't been in contact yet as we just made deposits. Its still so far away. I have heard that you don't usually start planning until payment is made in full which will be mid March. I am more concerned about the banquet room vs outside. We want to stick with the mint breeze, but I absolutely hate that orange colour I have seen in pics of the banquet room. If you have pics of the tropical banquet room I would LOVE to see that. And the options of locations for ceremony too I know it will all fall into place, and its a full year away, I just like to plan My fiancé is a police officer and I am a registered nurse here in Vancouver, so we don't have a ton of time to plan weddings etc, hence the destination wedding My email is [email protected] if you feel like emailing back and forth. feb is so close, you must be super excited!

Just wondering how the wedding went and the packages/location you chose. My wedding is booked at the tropical oct 29,2014

Quote: Originally Posted by mellie14 We are having the ceremony at Coral beach and reception in a banquet hall as of now. I really wanted to have it all outside also but the price difference is huge and my concern is wind/rain, etc also. We opted out of the cocktail hour because we feel people can just congregate at the lobby or pool bars in between. We are having a DJ just so we don't have to worry about music. I chose the violin for the ceremony. I have hired the best moments hair and makeup to do that for me on the day-I have read so many great reviews and they do airbrush makeup which I feel will hold out best if its windy or humid. About half of our guests are staying at Palace and the other half are at Tropical/Colonial. OOOH! Well I will say I have stayed at the Riu Yucatan in Feb and the weather is phenomenal! Yes yes ... the price difference, ridiculous! We are planning on doing a beach ceremony as well, no idea what beach but I guess I will have choices later on. and then we also opted out of the appie/cocktail hour, why buy something you already have paid for with the resort! We aren't going to have a DJ, I think we will just ask a friend do manage the music etc on ipod... it was all just too expensive. If we end up in a banquet hall I am buying the lightup dance floor! LOL. But if it works out to have it at the beach grill then I think we would forgo the dance floor. I have heard good things about the palace beach grill as well, being more upscale. I just doing want to be escapading around the resort all day.... lots of people get married down at the Caribe side I think its the Azul beach? But its SO far.... In planning this did the wedding coordinator contact you and have you choose things? or how does it work? Best Moments, is that part of the resort? If you don't mind me asking how much do you think its gonna cost for that? I feel like we have the same worries, its hard to stay in budget. Also, my finace and I are switching to the Excellence Playa Mujeres for our honeymoon the second week, but we chose the Barceló for the wedding to make the price point comfortable for our guests Im excited for you!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by mellie14 Hi there! I am getting married Feb 1, 2014 at the palace and we also chose the mint breeze package for about 40 people as well. Have they responded about having your reception at the Palmeras Grill instead? I had asked a while back about having the reception outside with this package and my WC said we would have to pay extra per person on top of the mint breeze package to do so. I never mentioned having it at one of the grills though, let me know what they say about doing that! happy planning and congrats! They haven't responded to me yet! I have a travel agent who is my middle person dealing with the barcelo for me, so I did ask her about it. I have a friend who got married at the barcelo los cabos and they have the same wedding package mint breeze but they paid about 25$ per person extra to have it outside by the pool. I am ok spending the extra money for that. the mint breeze is 2200, and then the strawberry was 3500. just seems expensive to pay 3500 when you may end up inside anyways! Its hard because there is a lot of talk about the palace but not a lot about weddings at the tropical. The palace was just too expensive for our guests to pay for though. Coming from Vancouver BC it was almost 2,000$ a person to stay at the palace in oct. what have you decided for your wedding so far!?

Quote: Hi there! I am getting married Feb 1, 2014 at the palace and we also chose the mint breeze package for about 40 people as well. Have they responded about having your reception at the Palmeras Grill instead? I had asked a while back about having the reception outside with this package and my WC said we would have to pay extra per person on top of the mint breeze package to do so. I never mentioned having it at one of the grills though, let me know what they say about doing that! happy planning and congrats They haven't responded to me yet! I have a travel agent who is my middle person dealing with the barcelo for me, so I did ask her about it. I have a friend who got married at the barcelo los cabos and they have the same wedding package mint breeze but they paid about 25$ per person extra to have it outside by the pool. I am ok spending the extra money for that. the mint breeze is 2200, and then the strawberry was 3500. just seems expensive to pay 3500 when you may end up inside anyways! Its hard because there is a lot of talk about the palace but not a lot about weddings at the tropical. The palace was just too expensive for our guests to pay for though. Coming from Vancouver BC it was almost 2,000$ a person to stay at the palace in oct. what have you decided for your wedding so far!?

Hi Everyone, I thought I would just jump into conversation here. I am getting married Oct 29, 2014 at the Barceló Maya Tropical. I know there are other tropical brides on this thread. SOOOO excited!!!!! We chose the mint breeze package, upgrading to accommodate approx. 35 people and then we asked about having the reception at the Palmeras Grill instead of the banquet hall. I want to be undercover but not inside! Anyone have experience with a wedding here?

Looking for some Barceló Maya Tropical brides. There are tons of palace brides on here, but im looking for someone who got married at the tropical/colonial recently. My wedding is Oct 29, 2014. I am in process of selecting the Mint Breeze package and seeing if they will upgrade us to the beach grill for reception instead of the banquet hall.