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Originally Posted by shan0487 

 

My TA had requested the Sunrise side because she said it was newer, but looks like I'll be telling her to contact Funjet to change the request to the Nizuc side!

The sunrise side is the oldest side.

It was refunded to me at check out! I had unlimited events. they even refunded the horse drawn carriage since we didnt have it because of the terrential downpours!!

If I were to re-book I would have booked our whole group in the Nizuc section! The pools are much nicer, and it is not so crowded. It is also newer and in the center of the resort! Most of our group was on the sunrise side and 4 other rooms were on the nizuc side so we were spread out and it was nice to travel and have some things close to peoples rooms. All of the wedding stuff is in the Nizuc section. The grand is the newest, but most quiet. We loved this after everyone left (it was the lobby/pools  closest to our room also!) No matter what if you have a group you will take over any section! Your better off with a less crowded spot to begin with!

Originally Posted by shan0487 

When is your wedding date?!  When will you be there?  I'll be at Moon Nov 19-26 but my wedding is at Sun Palace. 

 

I am bringing my photographer from the states with me and she is staying 3 nights so I don't have to pay the fee.  I would just book them a night at the hotel and then they will be a guest of your wedding!

 

Your wedding locations should be confirmed once you get your purchase order from your WC, but they say the cannot completely guarentee it until you arrive in Mexico.  But if you've paid, you should be fine !

 

I think we are requested to stay in the Sunrise section or the Nizuc.  Not sure one is better than the other.  I think the Nizuc side is quieter than the Sunrise from what I've been told. 

 It poured our first two full days there and I cried my eyes out...then it was perfect...up until 1 hour before our scheduled outdoor wedding and reception when tropical storm Debbie touched down over MP! .....

Rain on vacation in Mexico is still better than rain at home!!! None of my guests cared because it was their vacation!! (not their wedding They felt bad for me!

If you are having a reception just have your coordinator have your ceremony and reception in the same room- I wish they did that for me! It will be best for pictures! We still had a blast! If your not doing a trash the dress, reconsider - I wish I did, because I would have at least had the "beach pictures" I went there for! Also, if you qualify for unlimited functions- do one every night on a terrace! Then it will be like a reception every night! I didnt want to "take up peoles time" but everyone wanted to be together anyway and you annot get tables for groups at all.

My dad had a travel Bose speaker and we danced everywhere! It was worth ever penny!!!!

Don't (try not to) let the weather consume you!! There is NOTHING you can do to stop whatever happens happens and it just cannot be raining all week!!! Its the Caribbean!!

We changed our wedding son for our at home reception to "theres something sexy about the rain" by Kenny Chesney!

Originally Posted by chicksmommy 

I REALLY hope this is wrong..

 

http://www.accuweather.com/en/mx/cancun/235049/october-weather/235049

 

My wedding is on the 18th.. we will be there from the 15th to the 21st. Nothing but rain the entire time.  I'm freaking out.. I mean, full-on anxiety attack right now.

Originally Posted by jackie44 

 

has anyone got a list of the compliementry flowers you can get at moon palace or pictures please x

 

I was married 6/25/12 and we received our credit for 7 nights at checkout!

MPwedding plan: I HOPE it cant possibly rain anymore in Cancun...really!!  

WE actually just had our at home reception Saturday here in the rain also....REALLY?!

Pretty funny actually because We changed our wedding song to "Something Sexy About the Rain" so it definatley fit!!

OK ladies....

I had my reception in some ballroom in the nizuc lobby. I honestly don't remember where it was because it was supposed to be on the tucan terrace I had a dance floor and centerpieces I didn't pay for! Maybe they felt bad because a storm hit! I will try to find a picture.

*****ask to have your ceremony in the reception ballroom in case of rain. We were in a horribly ugly room with kitchen dishes crashing next to us. The storm hit 30 mins before the ceremony was supposed to begin so i had no idea where we were even getting married. I wish they just did it all in the reception room because it was much "nicer" and decorated. You would definitely have to request this at your initial meeting.

Here are some pics of our ceremony location and reception location

Beautiful I KNOW....just how I pictured it for almost a year.....

I still cant believe I was smiling so big...Its really not about the location

This picture as well as all our bridal party pictures was taken in the hallway. I NEEDED to get out of that ceremony location. 

One table decorated with pink yellow and orange napkins I brought ( not sure where the navy blue came from) and extra chair sashes since most of them got wet in the gazebo.  All the candles and lanterns were given by MP. we didnt pay for any extra decorations. 

Make sure you get the flowers your supposed to get on top of your cake....haha! Poor Theresa. She was new....

dance floor was there

After everything is said and done I would have done it all the exact same way!! (Minus the storm) but what can you do right?

PS- All of our hair and makeup came out better in Mexico than back here at home!! 

Best wishes!!!

we spent 400 in cash by the end of the trip 

Originally Posted by Misskris6 

 

So sorry to hear about the rain but I'm glad you had a great time anyway

 

I have a quick question - when you say "do not try to do or get anything ahead of time except your locations" - does that include locations for the rehearsal dinner, welcome dinner, etc.  What about planning your menus for the cocktail hour and reception?  I'm planning on making menu cards and would like to include a program of the wedding day and at least the day before for our guests so I assume I need to know this information before I go?  Just wondering how you did it!

What I meant was if you try to go through someone other than your wedding coordinator you may end up paying what they have in print.... My coordinator set up everything for free. We also had little lanterns on our tables and battery operated tea lights which they put out for us. I knew that they wouldn't leave a table bare....although our cake was supposed to have flowers on top and it was bare..

Also, I didn't want to have nightly events even though we qualified for unlimited events. I wanted people to do be able to their own thing, but funny enough everyone wanted to hang out with each other That was kind of a pain because we were all spread out and restaurants cant take more than 10 or 12 people and reservations are hard to make and you still wait. So looking back I kind of wished we utilized out=r unlimited events with cocktail parties on terraces or even dinners in a gazebo. Had we done that, we would have had the outside events I wanted for my wedding!!

You can get a PDF of all the buffet and hors deorves options, but it changed in a few months, so I would wait on that. But you can still do menu cards , even if it changed again I'm pretty sure you could get what you have written down because they really do aim to please once you are there!

I really wanted Arrifices for our welcome dinner and I was told it was booked at 6 and we couldn't have it later than that. My coordinator put us in for an 8pm dinner reservation, and the tables were ready and set up perfectly at 7:30. 

She just kept saying...what do you want..I feel like I could have don anything at that meeting, where I was told otherwise by Joannis in Miami. 

I am back...it has been a LONG 10 days!! I am waiting to put up a review until I can collect my thoughts. I know many of you anxiously await reviews (as did I) so Ill do a mini one here

My coordinator was Kalena and once we got there it was Teresa. (I had no Idea why) Teresa was AWESOME and so cute! She must be new because she asked allot of questions during our meeting!

The day of our meeting it had been raining for over 24 hours and the palace was flooded! I was so worried it was going to rain for all my guests vacation but even more so for my wedding. Teresa assured me it never rains on her weddings (I'm still sure this was her first week) never the less this was reassuring. **** DO NOT TRY TO DO OR GET ANYTHING AHEAD OF TIME except your locations!! The wedding coordinator can basically do whatever you want. They have a TON OF PULL!!! More than the front desk I believe!!

The next few days were nice and all my guests were having a blast. Our welcome dinner at Arrifices was AWESOME!! Best food, and a great time!

Wedding day - Salon at golf course was great My mom, MIL, MOH and 2 friends all got hair and makeup and looked perfect! I was the only one with hair pic and it came out perfect and everyone else still looked amazing. They know what they are doing!!

Wedding 6pm Tucan Gazebo 7-10 reception on the Tucan terrace. these locations were by far the best. Our room was right next door. I showed everyone and saw a few weddings.....

5:15 Tropical storm Debbie hit ( here is where my emotions are getting the best of me)

WE asked Teresa during the first two days of rain if we could have the catholic gazebo as a back up. She said sure. Well at about 545 that gazebo started flooding. (I had no idea what was going on until about 6:20) I know she was working hard up to that point.

The wedding pictures break my heart because I am such a summertime, beach loving, outdoor girl. Thanks to the amazing group of fun people we had with us I smiled throughout the whole ceremony which must have been right next to the kitchen in the Nizuc Lobby. The reception looked cute and I would have rather been married in that room. 

It was still a very fun time and we had no problems with the moon palace at all! 

I had enough rain for everyone so you will all be fine

I just wish there was a beach backdrop for unfortunate brides like me.

Here are some quick pics off FB:

Soooo excited to leave in just 3 days!! I only have chair sashes (like 15) for the ceremony and maracas and napkins for the recption tables. I am hoping to get those set up...even if its 65 dolllars and just be done, or have my friends do it beforehand!

The only thing I care about is the weather....I cant look.....

So happy to see to see and hear all the June brides having the perfect day, looking perfect!!!

Again, I havent paid for anything in full, havent spoken to Kalena, and Im not worried......I have it in writing that my locations were booked so if its not available........my 26 guests vacations better be free 

Jamie- did you write your own vows? The script was beautiful!!

Originally Posted by Jamie5280 

 

Hi Ladies!!

 

We're back!!!  Well we got back on Thursday, but had so much to do with being gone for 12 days! 

 

We had an amazing wedding and everything worked out the way it was supposed to.  The week of my wedding it rained off and on all week.  Low and behold the day of our wedding it was sooo cloudy that we decided to move our reception inside   I was pretty upset about it, but there really wasn't anything I could do.  Our ceremony, cocktail hour and pictures was beautiful and sunny.  During our reception some of the guys went to smoke cigars and it was raining, so inside was the way to go.  Not to mention, it gets too humid and muggy after it rains there, so inside was much more comfortable with the a/c.  The room looked amazing and it really didn't matter once I saw the room!!!    Like I said, it worked out how it was supposed to.  My "husband" hee hee, was very happy to have the reception inside, he was sooo hot outside!

 

Everything turned out amazing and I know we all stress, but they really do know what they are doing down there.  We had nothing wrong happen.  Zaray did amazing and was very kind and patient!

 

We used Marvin and the flowers were amazing. 

 

Our photographer is trying something new, so he has our wedding on his website.  It's was filmed live, so family back home could watch it while we got married.  But it's still up if you guys want to watch it...http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oomm  Hopefully that link will take you to it.  If not, go to octaviomontes.com and click on channel 1 in the upper left hand side of the screen.  They started recording 10 min before the ceremony so you should fast forward or you will just be watching our guests hang out! 

 

I hope you all are doing great.  I will try to get my review up as soon as I can.  But I wanted some pix first.  Either way I will let you know when it's up!!!

 

Miss you all and I hope all your wedding planning is going great!  Please feel free to ask my anything!!!  I know how stressful it is!

 

Jamie

Yup...totally cried during your video!! You looked stunning!

My dress had a baby train, and the bustle was so tiny it all didnt look right, for a beach wedding, and then wearing it again at an AHR I just had it taken up so its all one length. I like it so much better than with a bustle

Originally Posted by beatyea 

 

Hey ladies-

 

Anyone get their refund for reaching unlimited events yet?!?!  I'm having trouble getting ahold of someone!!!  Geraldine didn't answer me, Claudia CC'ed the accounting dept over a month ago and I've heard nothing.  I emailed Gretel and she immediately apologized for Geraldine and said she would get on but I haven't heard back from her and that was May 23rd!

Im interested to see how long it takes you to recieve your refund.

Originally Posted by mrsbruff2b 

 

I don't plan on paying her anything.  I will pay later at the resort.  But did you sign the spreadsheet invoice?

I havent paid or signed and returned anything to her. She also sent my the application for the civil ceremony, that I already filled out months ago when i paid the 300 dollars for that. I think its all just formailities. We pay remaining room balance upon check in and everything else uopn check out.

My paloma blanca is natural. It looks really white on me. I love the color. White may be too stark?

So I have received our schedule for hair and make up. 6pm wedding and we are all scattered between 1pm and 2:30 to start the services and my mom and MIL finishing about 5pm...a little worried about that...

We are scheduled at the Golf course salon with Silvina, Rosario, Alfredo, Eusebia, and Jillian. 

anyone hear any good, bad, ugly? I cant keep all the reviews straight and I'm signing off for the night.

Here is my dress at the second fitting. The boneing in the bodice was also removed for this fitting to tighten it up. That is why the top looks droopy.

But I need to post this because I CANNOT DECIDE ON JEWLERY!! This is harder than deciding on the dress...

Originally Posted by Mufin1785 

 

I think TTD is out....  Maybe I will add a hour to wedding day package and just do a few shots on the beach without getting completely in the water.....

 

Maybe for our 1 year anniversary we will celebrate and do a trash the dress then

1 year anniversary photo shoot is such a great idea!!!!

My dress was very expensive (I justified it because of the AHR) I dont think I will be comfortable enough to fully let loose in a TTD session. Plus my fiance is not for it! I just love the pictures...

Originally Posted by MrsBhatia 

 

Hi everyone, I've just joined, this website is so helpful! Me and hubby are celebrating our 10 yes being married and are celebrating by visiting moon palace again where we honeymooned. We decided to renew our vows while we are there and our symbolic wedding is booked for 23.08.12 at 5pm. We have no guests, just the two of us. Id love to hear from anyone who did something similar. And does anyone know if we can use resort credits towards any type of photography. Joannis does not give me a clear reply?

You cannot use resort credits towards photography packages. There is a Kodak memories option  you can use your resort credits for, where someone comes and takes pictures for an hour (it cannot be used for weddings) but maybe your case it can be?

I have not paid my remaining room balance (1700) my PSAV full balance, or my photography full balance......and no one has asked me to pay anything. I have also not been in contact with Kalena, my wedding coordinator. 

I did notice the buffett menus are different than what I got before? Both from Joannis? I will just wait....I cant let little things stress me out. Thats what The AHR is for

Originally Posted by mrsbruff2b 

 

My wedding is 3 - 4 weeks away and I still haven't heard from Joannis or Kalena since I've emailed about a week ago.  Is anyone experiencing this so close to their date right now?

I havent either, but Im not worrying about anything until we get down there. That is why I chose a destination wedding to begin with. Joannis doesnt know anything and Kalena will answer all our questions, and hopefully get us everything we want

Like all the brides have said before, try not to stress everything will be fine! They want to please us

Originally Posted by Mca1116 

 

Thanks for your help.  I guess Im just anxious because I see on here that there are girls who are getting married after me saying they have their locations secured already.  So then I start to panic thinking that Im not doing something right! haha.  I guess I need to relax a bit and just wait it out!!

as long as they are not getting married on the same day as you, then don't worry! Honestly it is better to have nothing set, than to set stuff, print itinerary's or whatever, and then not get it and have to back track. Wait until you are so much closer and have comfort in the fact you dont need to stress right now. Easier said than done

Joannis had copied her on an email to me, then I emailed her (about a month ago) and never heard back....so not sure if this will work?

Baberthly Kalena Arroniz de Regil     [email protected]

My wedding is the day after yours and I havent been asked to pay a thing. My TA does all the correspondence with Miami, but you still shouldnt have to pay until check-out.

Originally Posted by Meesh990 

I have been following this thread for a while. Everyone's ideas and advice have been priceless in the planning process. I saw some of you talking about the reception fees. Coco you mentioned that you were not charged when you got to the resort. My question is did you wait until you got to the resort to pay? Because joannis sent me a bill this week and said I needed to pay before we leave. Should I wait until we get there to see what the wc will include for free?