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Hi, has anyone had Miriam as a coordinator? Our wedding is next Friday, Nov 22nd. Random question about the credit for nights redeemed for all recent brides...if you had a credits remaining balance did the resort give you a check for the remaining balance? We reached 82 nights and paid for a 7 night stay for my fiance and I. We just received our purchase order and it it says our credits for nights redeemed is $2,688. Once they deducted our costs (music, horse and carriage, extra hours of reception) the remaining credit is $1,713. I assumed we would get that given back to us since the nights are "complimentary." The PO states that the credit can be used for more wedding extras only. Can any recent brides provide any advice or your own experience for me?

Hi there, are there any recent 2013 Moon Palace brides around? I have a question about the remaining balance once you have reached 75 nights booked. We booked 82 nights and paid for a 7 night stay for my fiance and I. Since the 7 nights are supposed to be "complimentary" I thought that meant we would get a check back from the resort with the remaining balace (after we paid for music, flowers, etc). I just received the PO from the wedding coordinator and it says our remaining credits of $1,700 can be used for wedding extras only, no cash reimbursement. I just emailed her to ask because I thought I had read on here that brides had that money returned to them in a check. If anyone has an answer please let me know. My fianace is going to upset if we aren't going to get that money back. Thats one of the reasons we booked 7 nights for ourselves.

My wedding is two weeks from today, guess it's time I begin making a playlist. Thank you everyone for all the tips. Once I get one together I'll upload it for everyone.

Has anyone rented the Chinese hanging lights for any of the terraces? Our reception is in 6 weeks @ Tucan terrace and we are unsure how many to rent from the vendor. If you have any previous experience please let me know, thank you!

Hi! Wow, that is a small world! I live in Watertown and work in Boston. I just looked at your wedding review...so amazing! I hope ours goes as well as yours. The pictures were great! I am hoping we can have the dinner @ Arrecifies. I'm just waiting to hear back from Renee. She initially said it was a 30 person max. I just noticed your wedding was just in May so could they really have changed the rules already? Hope not. I'd rather not have to pay to decorate another terrace if I can help it at all. We plan to rent lights and a few other things for the reception but I think that will be enough. I just heard back from PSAV and they quoted me just over $1,000 for 4 hours of a dj. Sooo much cheaper than JSAV!

Looking for a little help picking a location for a private event. We are having our reception @ Tucan Terrace on 11/22/13. In our group I have 34 adults, 3 teenagers, 1 toddler and 3 babies < 1 yrs old. I think having the welcome dinner on one of the other suggested terraces will be too much for these children to be out in the sun two days in a row. I was hoping we could do it in one of the restaurants but we have too many people. Does anyone know of any covered terraces or somewhere else that might work for us? I know there is a terrace outside of Arrecifies restaurant so I have asked for that but the coordinator said due to the construction that area might be changed around a bit. Can anyone who has been there recently help?

Definitely looks like you had an amazing wedding!

Love this! So helpful!!!

Hi Shan, Haha. I am all too familiar with the David's colors. Begonia is a hot pink/fushia color. It will look nice with the ocean in the background (or so I hope). haha. My sisters are impossible to please so I knew if I had them wear a color they hated that I would never hear the end of it. I'm going to email Marvin today for some prices. Did you give him a price range you'd like to stick too or did he just throw affordable #'s your way? We need centerpieces too and will also have 5 tables of guests plus one sweetheart table for Dean and I. We have 82 nights booked for our guests so will luckily get the unlimited private events. We're going to have a welcome dinner and then the cocktail hour/reception. Trying to decide now if we want the reception extended to 3 hours. I think if we have a dj then we may as well do a 3 hour reception. If we were to do the ipod then 2 hours might be enough. JSAV charges $395 for the 2 full hours of ipod music, 1 speaker system, wireless microphone. Thanks so much for your help! Colleen

Thank you! What happened when you told the resort coordinator you bought outside flowers? Were you charged an outside vendor fee? Your flowers are beautiful! How much does Marvin charge for bridesmaids bouquets? My bridesmaids are wearing David's bridal dresses (all different styles) in begonia. I loved Horizon but my sisters didn't haha. Begonia was my #2. I had my first fitting yesterday..can't believe this day is almost here. So much to do!! Did you rent a dj? We just got the quotes from the resort dj.

Hi, my wedding is in less than 2 months (11/22/13) @ Moon Palace. We have 40 guests coming and I'm starting to get a little nervous. We are having the reception outdoors @ Tucan Terrace. Can anyone help me with decorations? We would like to rent hanging lights to hang from the trees but we aren't sure how many to rent. They are $92 for one string of 10 lights. Also, has anyone used an outside florist? The prices of flowers at Moon Palace are out of our budget so I feel like this is the way to go for us. I'm scared the hotel will either charge us a crazy fee or not even let the florist deliver them. Anyone able to give me any advice?

Hi, Thank you so much for this review!! It was so incredibly helpful! My wedding is in 7 weeks so we are working on a lot of the details now. My reception will be in Tucan terrace also and I want to do the same hanging lights as you. Do you remember how many strings of lights you needed for the perimeter of Tucan terrace?

Good luck!

Hi, Wondering if anyone has had any luck picking cocktail hour/reception areas before 90 days before the wedding? I'm getting married in just over 4 months (11/22/13) and we would really like to lock down the Tucan or Venado terrace. Emailed our coordinator 2 weeks ago and she hasn't gotten back to me yet. Just checking to see if anyone has had any luck? Thanks! Colleen

Hi! How were your prices with Marvin? I'm getting married @ Moon palace in November and can't get over their prices!

We're getting married @ Moon Palace on 11/22/13 and staying for 4 more days after the wedding for our honeymoon! We have a 5 month old daughter joining us so our honeymoon will be more of a family vacation! We have many family members coming though so we'll have plenty of help for a few days. Can't wait!

Thank you for this thread! I've been trying to decide how to go about wording this on our website. Beach chic it is!

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Hi everyone, We are about 5 months away from our wedding day. My fiancé and I have started looking at the private event areas so we can decide where to have them. Hoping some brides or people who know the resort well will be able to point us in the right direction. We think we want to go with a terrace reception/cocktail hour. The wedding is Friday Nov 22nd. We are expecting 40-45 people. The majority of our family/friends are staying at Nizuc and the rest are staying at Grand. We're having the catholic ceremony in the chapel. Are there places that are less buggy? I'd love to be close to the ocean so we have nice sunset pics. I like the idea of the cocktail hour and reception being held in the same place so the guests don't have to move around a lot. We reached the 75 nights so we will be able to have unlimited parties. I think we'll just have a welcome dinner, the cocktail hour and reception. I want the guests to be able to enjoy your vacation too. Looking forward to seeing your responses. Thanks everyone!

Yay thank you!! We are sooo excited!

Hi, I'm getting married on 11/22/13 and those were the rates I was given. I also thought it was a bit pricey but that was the best rate that our travel agent was able to get us. Hope that helps!

I would love to know this too! Looks like you are getting married right before me. We decided to go ahead and do the catholic ceremony.

Hi, This forum is so helpful! I am getting married on Nov 22nd @ Moon Palace so a little less than 6 months to go. We have decided to have the catholic ceremony but will have a quiet (just us) civil ceremony here in Massachusetts sometime soon. It seems like it might be a hassle to do both in Cancun. Does anyone have a list of the different areas @ Moon that I can look at for reception spaces? They told me I would book that 90 days before but a few of you have mentioned that you are able to hold that space before the 90 days. We will be having around 40 adults and 7 children. We are staying in Nizuc and just added 10 more rooms in Grand. We're staying for one week. Anyone know about the weather in November? Thank you ladies! Love this website!

Hi! Was just catching up on posts and saw you are in Boston too! We're getting married @ Moon on 11/22/13. I see you are this month. Good luck!