Tamarindo wedding help!

tropicalchick · December 30, 2011

Hey fellow CR brides -

We are getting married in Costa Rica March 21,2012. We still do not have the location booked! We are staying at the Barcelo Langosta with 50 friends and family. We can't decide where to hold the wedding. Cost is a big factor for us. To have the wedding reception at the AI would save us about $4000 for the cost of food & alcohol but it is a closed, air conditioned restaurant which is located above the amphitheater. It apparently get's pretty loud when the show starts at 8:30pm. It's not really what we wanted, as we wanted outdoors, tropical etc. We are going offsite for the ceremony and there are several nearby places we could have the dinner/party but we just can't decide. Anyone who has suggestions or comments - I'd love to hear from you! We need to decide really soon!

muzikgrrl · December 30, 2011

Hi I'm having my wedding in another part of Costa Rica. I'm not sure what your budget is, I remember when I was deciding on a location the Tamarindo Diria hotel had some nice looking weddings. My advice is to try to look up some wedding photographs from the area and look up some of the hotels on Trip Advisor and start emailing them. Trip Advisor also has a comprehensive list of restaurants for the area, you could try calling them or emailing them to find out what they can do. There are some nice sit down restaurants in Tamarindo. Sorry I can't offer any more help.