Hi Everyone! Here is my review from our amazing Palace Wedding that took place April 7th. Claudia was our WC and she was awesome! She looked after all of the details for us by email before we arrived and during our stay, we only had to meet with her for just over an hour our entire stay. She let us give her any wedding favors/reception items to keep in her office a head of time. We had the mint breeze package and paid extra for a cocktail hour and dj/dance floor for the reception. This was totally worth it.
The day of the wedding I got my dress steamed in my room, called laundry services and they sent two people up right away...a little procrastinating on my part, but it got done in time. My cousin did my hair and makeup so I did not use the onsite spa for that, so no reviews can be given on that detail. Claudia picked me up in a golf cart at 2pm, she had my bouquet and the girl's flowers, I paid extra for those. I had gerbera daisies and they were perfect! we were doing photos with the two of us before the ceremony so we did not run out of time after. One of our guests is a photographer so he did everything and since he was a resort guest, no extra charge. Our ceremony was at 330pm right on the beach in front of the palace grill. It is so beautiful there! Nice and out of the way of most beach goers. I let claudia tell guests and wedding party where to be and there was no stress at all. We did a symbolic ceremony and our JP was great, very humorous. After the ceremony we did a group pic and then had an hour to do more pics with our wedding party. We had a cocktail hour on the rooftop at 530-630pm. We used our ipod for music and it was perfect. We did caribbean appys and they were all great, especially the coconut shrimp! The reception was right beside the rooftop around 7 so while everyone was getting seated we went to the beach for a wedding party photo. We made a seating chart/center piece using sand pails,sand and "palm trees" made our of green paper and wooden sticks wrapped in pipe cleaners. They were so cute and everyone's names were wrote on a leaf. We had DJ mannia for the reception and they were so great. They announced everyone and had a great supper playlist. For the rest of the night I had given them some music suggestions and they are highly recommended. Supper was fantastic, ceasar salad, french onion soup, beef tenderloin or chicken pesto with choc molten cake. Everyone loved their food and we were so happy with the service. We also upgraded our wedding cake to 3 tiers, vanilla, strawberry and coconut. This cake was amazing and so fresh! They use real strawberries and coconut..to die for! We had gotten our guest shot glasses, brought as a carry on in the plane, so we got the servers to go around to the tables and give the guests different shooters, it worked out great. DJ mannia was so professional and guided us through everything. They asked us when we wanted to do the dances, speaches, cake cutting..no need to have those details worked out way ahead of time, it all works out perfect in the end. We added the lit dancefloor instead of just dancing on the carpet and it was so worth the extra $. Our reception ended at 11 so we moved over to the lobby bar and then to the disco after midnight. Our wedding day was truly perfect and amazing. The Barcelo Palace did a great job with the entire week and everyone had the time of their lives. Please feel free to PM me if you have any questions.
Thanks for reading!
Jenny