Mariachi Band - Riveria Maya

We are having my daughters wedding at a private villa and am hoping for some recommendations for a great mariachi band? We were thinking about having them play during the cocktail hour - what are your thoughts?

I didn't end up using this company, but they were very nice and responded quickly to e-mails (plus, I think I've read good things from brides on here...)

They're essentially wedding planners, but you can pay to have them JUST set up a mariachi band for you...

Weddings in Playa del Carmen - Destination Wedding Planner, Playa del Carmen and Riviera Maya - ajuaweddings.com

Good luck!

Where is the villa? I would want a band that was close by so that you don't have to pay a large transportation fee.

i really wish i had a mariachi band to play immediately after the ceremony. it's my only wedding regret.

what about contacting some local restaurants & seeing if they can get you in contact with some musicians?

BTW, if you're open to having a band that's NOT a mariachi band, we had a GREAT one play for us during our ceremony and our cocktail reception.

Sol Tamargo (of Del Sol photography) used them for her wedding too!

I'm not sure if they have a name, but it's a husband and wife plus I think two more members... The wife is named Jill Kirkland and she I think is American (so speaks English) and is easy to communicate with. I spoke to her once on cell but mostly communicated via e-mail.

They can play pretty much anything, but they're NOT acoustic (i.e. they have amps etc to plug in).

Honestly -- they were the HIT of our cocktail hour!:-)

I think we paid $500 for two sets (45 mins each) plus a travel fee. (maybe $50?)

She can be reached at:

[email protected]

If you DO want to contact her and have trouble reaching her through that e-mail, let me know...I'll dig up her cell number for you! :-)

Whoo-hoo! Just found it:

home: (984) 803-0308

cell is (984) 119-3622

Thanks so much for all these idea's we will start making some contacts! The villa is Villa Sol y Luna (check out their website, they have some beautiful wedding pictures). The villa is located in playa del secreto.

We have friends who live in Playa who actually got us a mariachi band for our welcome dinner/fiesta, which was held at the villa we were staying at in Akumal.

They were an awesome, all-female band!!! I have no clue how much they were as our friends paid for it as a gift, but I can certainly find out if you're interested. Everyone raved about how good they were and we ended up keeping them for about 2 hours because they were so so good and kept our entire group of 65+ dancing

MarieSam if you could get me the contact information for the all female band that would be great. Your wedding pics are beautiful.

Marie if you could please let me know the name of the all female mariachi band as well! I would really appreciate it. : )

Sounds fun!!!