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I'm also interested in hanging paper lanterns or string lights over the reception area (Bugambilias Terrace) and got a quote of $800 total from Gama (includes set up fee and taxes) for 4 strings of either 10 lanterns or 10 light bulbs. It does seem excessively expensive for a few lights. Past or current brides, what do you think, is this worth the expense?

@@llevasseur Thank you so much for your review. It sounds like you had an amazing wedding! I was actually at the resort for part of the time that you were there for my site inspection. The weather was great at this time of year. I'm worried it will be way too hot when I have my wedding in May (at least that is what everyone kept telling me)! I have a few questions for you or anyone else that has input: I'm planning on putting together my own music playlist as well and have already have some songs on the list, but would love a copy of your playlist for more song ideas! And if you don't mind sharing your pictures or wedding video, I'd love to see them! Did you have to pay the $800 vendor fee for Styling Trio? Can the resort credits be used on anything for the wedding reception? Did you use your credits for any activities and if so, how were they? How did you coordinate when and where to meet up with people, like at the pool or for dinners? Did you have many things pre-planned or did you just go with the flow once you got there? The resort is so huge I imagine it is hard to find people unless you plan where to meet! Which section did you stay in? Did they book all of your wedding party in the same section? And a few comments from my weekend: There is free wifi throughout the resort, but it was spotty, even in our room. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. I agree that the food is delicious! I wanted to try all of the restaurants while I was there, but since I was only there for 3 days, that didn't work. The servers were all extremely friendly too. They have a FlowRider surf machine where you can surf or boogie board. It's fun, but my neck was pretty sore for a few days after, so I may have to wait until after the wedding before trying it again, haha. I did a cake tasting. I tried carrot, marble, chocolate and tres leches. They were all pretty good, but I liked the carrot cake the best. The tres leches was actually kind of dry and my least favorite of the ones I tried, which was surprising to me since others liked it so much. The dance club is only open on Friday, Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday. They also have a sky bar that has tv for sports and a British pub that has live music (not sure how often). It was about a 20 minute walk between Sunrise and Grand. This resort is huge. The shuttle between the sections comes every 15 minutes though if you don't want to walk. They need 4 hours advance notice to decide to change the location to indoors for rain for your reception. They will let you make the call, but if you decide to still have the event outdoors and it rains, they will cancel it. You can use tiki torches to help keep away mosquitoes. They are 10/$100 from Zuniga. I saw a wedding that had about 25 torches circled around the reception. I didn't actually notice any mosquitoes while I was there, but maybe I just got lucky.

@@robertandreneesayido Luckily I didn't have too much trouble booking a site visit. I'm sorry to hear that they keep switching things up on you! The lady that we booked with was Mayra Ramirez. Her email address is mayramirez@@PalaceResorts.com @@jackielemman Your reviews and answers to everyone's questions have been awesome. Thank you for all the planning tips and I'm glad to hear that your wedding went so well!

I'm doing a site visit at Moon Palace this weekend! Any recommendations on what I should do, see or ask while I'm there?

Hello all! I've booked my wedding for 5/23/15. With over 10 months to go, I'm wondering if anyone can give me some feedback on what your timeline has been for making plans with the wedding planner. Is there anything that I need to do now, or should I relax and wait until the wedding gets closer? I've mainly just been trying to get information on vendors and pricing so that I can get an idea of what my budget will be. I've been assigned Margarita as my wedding planner but haven't had a chance to speak with her yet.