The Hotel – Gran Bahia Principe Akumal A++++
There were 10 of us (and two babies) that checked in at the same time. My parents and Shawn and I had booked Club Golden which are the condos right on the water, so we had a separate check in. So as our bridal party did the normal check in, we went straight to the Club Golden area. It was beautiful and we were given condo 65. AMAZING! It had a gorgeous view and I could see the wedding set up right from my window. We were also just a hop skip and jump away from the activity pool, restaurants, and the 24 snack bar. It was awesome.
The rest of our guests ended up spread throughout the resort in random villas. It kind of stunk that nobody was together, but oh well I guess.
The grounds of the resort are amazing. Lush and well managed with lizards running all over the place. I’m not a picky food eater… I eat pizza and watermelon and I’m happy… so I thought the food was great. Shawn too. We end up eating at two alacart restaurants. We chose Les Gourmet and Dolce Vita. Les Gourmet was fantastic! LOVED it. Dolce Vita was alright, again, we aren’t very picky.

As for the wedding portion of the resort… Yurítzia is the wedding coordinator for the Akumal section. She doesn’t ever reply to e-mail messages and our meeting with her was very stressful. HOWEVER she saved us over $5,000 as she didn’t charge us for the cocktail hour or the open bar during our reception. She also gave us amazing deals on our flowers (which I LOVED) and in the end the wedding was everything I had imagined and so much more! She did an amazing job and I just wanted to hug her at the end of the night! It was awesome.
There were some issues with the blood tests. We went the first time and were told they were out of supplies so we were to come back at 4. Ok, came back at 4… we were told to come back at 6. At 6 they finally got us in and it was quick, painless (well, to me anyway!), and we were done! I was really surprised by this since I have terrible veins.
The wedding location that we had chosen was the hammock spot on an unswimmable portion of the beach. It was beautiful with the waves crashing and we knew there wouldn’t be Speedo men or topless ladies in our pictures ?
The day of the wedding Yurítzia decorated the location just as I had asked and everything looked beautiful! I was so pleased.
Our cocktail hour (which she demands be two hours… which I don’t recommend!) was in the Akumal Theater Lounge. It has huge windows which can be opened so that you get a nice breeze, but it was still pretty toasty. We also had the trio playing during this time. They were really great and I am glad we spent that money.
After the cocktail hour we moved to the private dinner reception. This was $46 a person and was located by the pool. It was beautiful decorated, however we really couldn’t see what we were eating! That was amusing. The food was delicious though, and the cake (three milk) was really good too, very moist.
After we were done eating we started the reception with the traditional dances and then we just partied until 10:30. At which time… Shawn and I did our special dance! We preformed the final dance from Dirty Dancing (I’ve had the time of my life.) We have been practicing for a REALLY long time and everyone loved it. They all cheered VERY loud and we got the perfect reaction! It was amazing.
10:30 the music stopped and we headed to the Hacienda to take some night time photos and whoever wanted to stay out and party could (we were too tired and had our 8:00 TTD session the next morning!).

The wedding was perfect and amazing and we couldn’t have asked for anything better! We were so thrilled!