DO I DARE plann a CINCO De MAYO WEDDING???...HELP!!!

Nan · March 24, 2011

Originally Posted by JetsettinBride

I"m new to the forum and I'm recently engaged. I'm definitely doing a Destination Wedding in Cancun, Turks & Caicos or Punta Cana. But I am slowly ruling out the Punta Cana DR b/c I'm not hearing great things about the food at most of the resorts. Also I have a lot of people who have traveled there and some complained about getting sick b/c of the food or not liking the food all together.

As far as Cancun goes, I thought it may be sort of cool to have my wedding on Cinco de Mayo (May 5th). Have any of you heard of any other brides doing an actual Cinco de Mayo wedding in Mexico? If so, how did id turn out? Or would you not advise this.

I did Google holidays observed in Mexico and May 1st is Labor Day in Mexico and May 5th is Cinco de Mayo, but not Mexico's actual Independence Day, which that is celebrated on September 16th. So it appears that Cinco de Mayo is more celebrated in the USA rather than Mexico.

I have read threads were other BW Meixco Brides accidentally planned their wedding day on a National Holiday in Mexico and I didnt want to do the same.

On one hand this could be a really fun day to do it with a built in theme or this could be probably not the best day to do so since the whole country may be partying so it may be harder to book a Photographer , DJ and other vendors>>> Thoughts???

I have made a little research myself with a group of Mexican friends and Cinco Mayo is indeed a holiday but definitely not Independence day, so itÂ´s a holiday ( no one works) but not crazy partying so You will have no problem organizing your wedding on that day!

Nan · March 24, 2011

JetsettinBride:

I have just read that you are planning to change the date to July because of your brother having hisfinal exams ! I would do the exact same thing if my brother couldnÂ´t come to my wedding! July will sure be a fantastic time to get married and you will have a couple mor months to get everything ready! Mine is coming next May!!! This image looks more like a nun rather than a bride to me!!

JetsettinBride · March 24, 2011

Thanks! I love you BDW Brides!! You guys really help one another out! Thanks for the research!

Georgiaz · March 24, 2011

Thanks for all the useful information, i am planning my wedding for next year and 5 de mayo is one of the dates we are looking into. Yes I agree we could do many things with the 5 de mayo theme, so we will keep that on mind.