shan0487

Is anyone a Palace premier member?  I have a couple questions in regards to booking weeks?  My in-laws are members but have never used their membership.  Thanks!

If you have over 75 room nights booked you will have reached the max group wedding perks and will be able to take advantage of the free private cocktail and reception and the dinner reservations will not be necessary!

As much as I wanted one- it just wasn't in my budget- instead I bought a $300 video camera and had my future brother in law tape the ceremony and inportant reception events (speeches, first dance, cake cut, etc).  We watched it on our one year anniversary and it turned out great!! Much better than spending thousands of dollars on a fancy video that I will only watch once a year! And now we have a video camera to record other important events!

Hi Tammy!

I have also enjoyed being on this site for a few years now and would love to help out!

Thank you,

Shanna

300 people is a lot to invite to a normal wedding, esp a destination wedding so that could go either way- you could end up with 70 or 200!!!! Just remember destination weddings are meant to be more intimate and as long as your closest family and friends are there to celebrate with you that is all that matters!! I wouldn't have changed anything about my 41 person wedding it was the perfect amount.  Now when I go to weddings back home I stress out for the bride and groom thinking about how they have to talk and throw a party for 200 plus people!

Thanks for sharing @shan0487. I am currently torn on how many to invite too. b/c My FI to invite EVERYone (~300 people) and I want to keep costs down but want a decent turnout (60-80people). Not sure if we should invite the 300 and hope for 80 or invite significantly less.

They told me they could not give me a script as each person that performs the ceremony has their own version of what they do.  Don't let it worry you- all that matters is that they say your name right and you are marrying your best friend!

Past Brides!! I need your help please!

 

Did any of you have the symbolic ceremony? If so, were you able to get a script of what the officiant was going to say, or were there choices of different scripts?

 

I am a month out from my wedding and don't have a clue about the ceremony! Am I supposed to provide a script??

 

EEEK! Please help!

 

Any info is greatly appreciated!!! thanks! 

Nizuc section- centrally located in the middle of the resort and are working on updating all the rooms in that section

when booking the room blocks  which section did you recent brides like or prefer better and why?

We had 40 people and one speaker worked just fine!

Hi Past Brides!

 

Are two speakers necessary for the reception or is 1 speaker enough?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

-Katherine

I tipped the WC $50, I gave the man delivering the flowers for marvin $5, we just had an ipod tech so we tipped him $10 and $10 to each bartender and wait staff.  Be sure to individually hand each person their tip or they may not share!

i know its been discussed buf im still unsure about tips  how much do you generally tip hour wc, how about the florist (marvin) and the dj and decorators (zuniga).

 

also Ems85 how did you convince them to upgrade ypi to the presidential suite? I'm not good at things like that but would love to try since we have our son and it would be so nice not to have to share a room! 

 

thanks!!

Karen was my on-site coordinator! She was great and super sweet! You are in good hands!

Hey Everyone, I have been on here for a little while but I just wanted to say that I had Alejandra as my wedding coordinator, she was amazing and now has transferred me over to my onsite wc, Karen, and so far she is super helpful as well!

I leave in two days and my wedding is in one week so Ill come back and let everyone know how it went! If anyone has any questions they need answered let me know and I will try to help!

We did the maracas as well!! I love when I go to friend's houses and see the maracas lying on a bookshelf or somewhere in their house! Such a great memory!

@@jackielemman

 

We did maracas as our wedding favors and they were a HUGE hit! We had one placed at every table setting and I tied a note on each of them (the size of a business card) and on one side it said:

 

"Instead of tapping on your glass, Heres a system with Mexican class. Stand and shake with all your might, To see the groom kiss his bride tonight."

 

Then on the other side we wrote a short Thank You note to our guests.

 

The maracas were ordered from Amols and were SUCH a great price! :)

Not if you have the vendor drop off the flowers in the lobby and you have someone meet them to pick them up!

does your resort charge a fee to use outside flower vendor?

No, you only do the blood test if you are getting legally married in Mexico.  Symbolic ceremony = no blood work

Hi Ladies,

 

I am getting married in July 2014 at moon palace, just wondering about the blood test. If i'm already legally married, do i still need blood test?

Are our old PM's gone forever?  I can't locate all my old PM's before the website change! HELP!!!!!

Maya Floral was great!!! We used them for our wedding and I got a TON of compliments on my flowers!

There are a ton of Moon Palace threads out there- I can send you the links if you need- but there is one for 2013 and 2014!

I PM'ed you back!  I just got the standard size chair bows and table runners (I didn't get anything long or extra length and it was just fine!

can you please send me instructions for making the starfish chair décor?  

I'll PM you my email if you need that.

 

Also, do you know for table runners, chair bows or drapery for ceremony what sizes to get?

Hey Caitlin!

Sorry I just saw this! I haven't been able to get on since they updated the website until now. 

I will email you the pics after the holiday craziness is over and I will also post pics to the moon palace photos thread.  I took pics of all the gazebos and a handful of the terraces!

Shanna

 

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Ohhhh Shannon....where oh where are your vacation pics?!

 

We are coming up on our 1 year anniversary on Saturday! Can't believe it's already been a year! We will be returning to Moon Palace for our annivesary on Monday!! Can't wait!!!!

I got married in 2012 and booked thoruugh a travel agent and received the refund back on my credit card about a month after we returned.

Is anyone getting married between November 25-30?  My husband and I will be there for our one year anniversary and wanted to see  if we can crash some weddings haha