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Hi, I had my wedding here in Nov 2013 and I would NOT recommend it. The hotel is beautiful and the hotel staff is great. BUT, the wedding staff is NOT. We had such a horrendous experience planning--I do not wish for any bride to have to go through what we went through. Here's my review on tripadvisor. The feeling from the start felt very uneasy. Though you feel like you're getting good value for your money, there are all these additional costs they throw at you once you've signed the contract and you're basically locked in. Also, they force you to work with their vendors, regardless of if their vendors are any good and make you pay $1,000 penalty per vendor if you wanted to use someone else. The photographers (Blue Lens) is very good. And the florist (Alquimia) is decent. But the DJ (JSAV) was horrendous and single handedly put a sour taste in our mouth. We could not be more clear about our song list, what we expected of our DJ, etc. he played the wrong song for our bridal party entrance, he played songs off our play list, which we said not to do. He was so behind in announcing the speeches and dances at the reception that we had to cut our cake cutting completely out of the evening to leave whatever minimal time we had left for dancing. We were very upset and disappointed. We felt our wedding coordinator could've stepped up but she disnt. It's like, why have a wedding there if you're basically going to be the 'day of coordinator' running around and telling the DJ 'announce the speech now...ok now queue the mother son dance...ok now do this...wrong song. This song...do that, so this!' We were running to the DJ booth so much that our photographers barely got any pictures or videos of us. And the ones they did, we looked upset and annoyed. So there's more money down the drain. Also, do NOT hire the fire dancers. What a joke! We hired then for 15 minutes for an obscene amt of money. They played drums for 14 of the 15 minutes with a person holding a torch above the drummers. Then in the last 60 seconds, they had these 2 very unattractive girls walk around seductively with the 2 torches...really??? That's what we paid for??? Over all. Hotel is good, clean. Food is good. But DO NOT have your wedding there, whatever you do. Not worth it. My brother has his wedding at Banyan Tree just up the road. Go there. They're much better, organized and professional.