LurkerDan

A question about the "symbolic" ceremony. Do you have to be legally married before arrival or is it fine to get legally married when you return home? We're choosing the symbolic ceremony for the ease of it and because we prefer to "customize" our ceremony more (for example, have a friend marry us). And given Colorado's common-law marriage rules, it is probably sufficient, but we do want to formalize it at some point. I would rather do that after the Moon Palace ceremony, because I want that to feel like our real wedding date, but don't know if that will cause us problems. As an aside, it always feels a little weird posting/reading here, like I'm a guy in the ladies' room. But the fiancee isn't into the internet forum thing so doing the web research falls to me.

I recall reading on here somewhere that different wholesalers (which the TAs use) reserve in different sections of the resort. Whether that is just a custom or a hard and fast rule, I don't know.

here is her review: http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/products/moon-palace-golf-spa-resort-all-inclusive/reviews/4988

anyone? We're getting close to sending out our STDs, and want to include something in there about safety.

Anyone? It'd be great to have some formal confirmation.

Does anyone have more formal info (like a link) to the 2012 Kids Stay Free promo?

This thread is great, and can't have too many pictures. Thanks and keep them coming!

I have no real concerns myself regarding travel to Mexico (we are thinking of a June 2012 wedding near Cancun, maybe Moon Palace). However, saying to the invitees "oh, it's safe, you shouldn't worry" is not nearly as effective as providing them with some evidence. Does anyone have any links or articles or whatever that I can use to show people that it is safe to fly to Cancun for our wedding?

don't know if posting here first changed something or if an admin changed something or if elves were at work, but I was finally able to post my thread! Yay!

Hello, my name is Dan, looks like my sex is in the minority here but here goes. I searched a lot here but haven't found a lot of the info I need. My fiancee and I are planning a wedding in 2012, probably June. We don't have a lot of extra cash, and we just had a baby girl (yeah, I know, we're doing this in the wrong order) so it feels like any spare cash should go to caring for our daughter. So I had what I thought was the brilliant idea of having a destination wedding at an all-inclusive resort. We have a lot of friends and family, and I expect a lot would travel to our wedding. Open to location, but lots of us are in Colorado so the closer locations are better (for ex., Cancun and surrounding area is very easy to get to). But even though all of these resorts would be reaping the benefit of 80-100 people coming to the resort for our wedding and all of these people would all be paying a lot for included food and beverage, it seems the resorts want to charge us an arm and a leg to bring them all. Making it as expensive or more expensive than local weddings. We're not that picky about details, we just want a simple ceremony and a private dinner reception. That's it. But the few resorts I have seen that advertise "free weddings" only offer that for small numbers of guests, and want to charge $50-60/per person after that. Which not only seems crazy, but we simply can't afford it. I totally understand paying something for them to set up a separate area and serve us separately, but if I'm bringing tens of thousands in dollars of business to them, it seems like it should cost a little less. Are there resorts that I'm missing? Places I should check out for a fairly budget all-inclusive wedding? Any help would be appreciated, because this has me bummed out right now.

I have been having the problem as well, tried posting in the newbies forum. I assumed that I couldn't post at all, but after seeing this thread, maybe it's that I can't post a new thread, so maybe this post will go through! Problems occur in both IE and Firefox. Running XP Professional on a laptop.