Mexico Wedding Puns

So I made the mistake of having my heart set on Acre in Cabo. Looking at the venue pricing itself, while it's pricey, I thought it would be doable. However, with all of the other extras (DJ, florals, rentals, etc.) it really pushed us beyond what we're comfortable with.

Are there other venues that are still pretty upscale (foodie wedding food, nice cocktails, boho vibe), but perhaps in a city that isn't quite literally the most popular wedding city in Mexico? lol Hoping I could find something that's super special and a little more affordable in Mexico, Caribbean islands, or Central America.

Initially we didn't want a beach wedding, but I think that's going to open up more options so as long as it's 100% private we're ok with that.

Thank you thank you in advanced for any help/advice here!!

Hi there! My fiance and I have decided that we want to go with a destination wedding. We both love the idea of having our closest friends and family spending quality time with us for a few days, and it looks like we can make our money go a bit further in Mexico.

We have people coming from major cities across the US, mostly from the west coast.

We're now starting to narrow down the location. I love the idea of beautiful white sand beaches for the wedding, so started looking into Playa Del Carmen options. Since we have a lot of folks coming from the west coast we are also considering Cabo and found a ton of beautiful resorts, but I'm aware the beaches aren't as nice. Hoping there are some folks in this group that have experience with destination weddings!

1. Cabo Resorts vs Playa Del Carmen: How do they compare in terms of price and privacy? We want the wedding to be as private as possible. We're hoping to spend around $40k and expect about 80 people to make it.
2. How do the activities compare at each location for groups? We'd love to have a few group activities options like a catamaran or sailboat for the wedding party.
3. How is walkability/ease of transportation for each location?
4. Should we get a wedding planner to help with the venue/vendors since we aren't able to be there in person?
5. Are there other direct (or reasonable) flight options we should consider for a destination wedding?
6. Are there other major considerations I should be thinking about?

If there's anyone that can help with even one of the above questions, or share their experience, it would be super helpful! Thank you!

This is just a Vent. Please no advice or platitudes. Today my rude uppity (definition of always silver spoon) cousin is getting the wedding of her dreams on the beach in mexico. Call me petty, stupid, a bitch or whatever but yes I'm jealous! I'm just seething with rage and hate..and obviously not there because I haven't cared to speak to her in years she has always been so uppity. I know don't compare your life to others bla bla but we are the same age (30). I'm dead inside grieving over my fiance's death, and she is always celebrating.

My heart is just broken she gets the life of my dreams while all I have are memories and a grave stone.

It was supposed to be me. I had a soulmate. We didn't get to get married but we called each other husband and wife. We were going to get married in Hawaii. I was supposed to wear a beautiful dress and him in his Marine uniform. My mom was supposed to see her daughter get married, now all she sees is me crying. We were going to honeymoon in Hawaii and go to the Mauna Kea observatory and see the stars. He tragically passed and I'll forever be dead with him. I'm fucking crying typing this...fuck this cruel life.

I hate you...hope you enjoy your wedding ...NOT!!! And not all of us get to smile again, laugh again. I'm just so furious, so hurt, so devastated...so...just FUCK!!!!!

My cousin has gotten everything, super wealthy from rich grandma, a beautiful new home.. married, and everything has been taken from me. I lost my fiance, my beloved home, my finances, I let addiction take over due to grief and it wrecked my looks, my health is gone (I'm disabled now from injury). She will probably have kids and I never will. I ONLY wanted them with him. We had names picked out and everything. I got a spite sterilization after his death.

She gets to go on with life while I just scream WHY did he have to die!!! Come back J I need you!!! And I just sit and "exist" for my mom, dog and best friend...I don't live. I welcome the day I can finally pass.

We are getting married in Mexico in March. We'll be flying in 3 days before the wedding itself from the US. Does anyone have experience getting a spray tan in advance and flying? I'd get my tan on a Friday, fly down on Sat, and the wedding is Tue.

I had a test run last month and it looked good with my skin tone. I'm mainly worried about sweating it off before the wedding as it will be hot there. Any feedback would be great!

I am currently in the process of a terrible custody battle with my ex over our 7 year old daughter. We were engaged but never married and I left him almost 6 years ago at this point. He is narcissistic and manipulative and refuses to negotiate or meet me halfway on anything. He doesn’t care about what is best for our daughter, he only wants to hurt me because I chose not to marry him.

He has had the same girlfriend for the past 3 years now, and they recently became engaged (the day before our first court date, how ironic). Good for him, I really could not care less at this point. Anyways, probably about two months ago he suddenly demanded that I needed to get her passport application completed, and pay for half of it. Why is this? Because his girlfriend and him have booked a wedding date and venue. It will be in Mexico on the week after my daughter’s school vacation in April.

He has fought tooth and nail with me to get me to sign off on it, but I refuse. My own lawyer even has been trying to get me to agree to getting it done, but I am holding my ground. He has filed emergency paperwork with the court to get a judge to overrule my rights and force me to help him get my daughter a passport.

Am I crazy for saying no to this? She is 7 years old and unvaccinated. And no one will convince me that she will be there wearing a mask the entire time— no one wants to wear a mask on the beach, and you can’t tell me they’ll be having masked wedding pictures. The risk of COVID aside, she will be missing an entire week of school to attend it; the week following her school vacation. She will then miss an additional week for mandatory quarantine. Her school allows only 14 missed days and that will already use up 10 of them, not to mention the amount of education she will fall behind on.

I also just found out that they already did a ceremony here for family who wouldn’t be able to make it to Mexico, and my daughter was there and was a part of it. They were technically legally married during this ceremony, so Mexico isn’t even a real wedding for them— it’s really just a weird honeymoon. Regardless, my refusal has nothing to do with not wanting my daughter to attend his wedding at all. In fact, I think she absolutely should be at her fathers wedding, but it was his decision to choose an international destination in the middle of a pandemic as the best location for them. It is not my responsibility to see to it that my daughter gets to see her father get married, it is m

Who is the Sinaloan that Ramon and his friends are killing for disrespecting the bride at the wedding ? And why do the sinaloans doesn't seems to care ?

Hi everyone — this is my first reddit post! I’m excited to get some feedback :)

My fiancé and I (26 years old) are looking to plan a Mexico destination wedding in 2023. We’re thinking Cabo or Riviera Maya. There will likely be 100-130 guests.

We are torn between two ideas:

1. We have our wedding at an all inclusive resort most our guests will stay at. The wedding is less customizable, but HALF the price (from multiple quotes). The package typically comes with a welcome party, rehearsal dinner, etc.
2. Everyone stays at the all-inclusive resort. We provide transportation for all our guests to have our wedding at an outside venue. We can personalize our wedding stylistically much more.

Has anyone had experience in either or? If so, which option did you go with, and why? Regrets? Things you’d consider?

EDIT: I would hire a full-service wedding planner for the external/outside venue! So I wouldn't worry about all the little details/communication.

Hi everyone! I’ve seen quite a few posts here about Mexico destination weddings and I was curious if anyone has had a great experience with a specific wedding planner in the Rivera Maya area of Mexico that they would recommend.

We’re targeting a Feb 2023 wedding and would like to hire a wedding planner to start comparing wedding venues/resorts with. Our ideal location is Playa Del Carmen, but we’re flexible. We’ve made our guest list & we’ll likely have 75-100 guests attending.

Any information on where to start would be extremely helpful! I’m not a big planner and just the thought of this is quite overwhelming. Thank you all in advance!

I don’t post too much about my own story here so far, but I’m hoping this one can help some others in some way.

I am 7 months sober, and there have been a few times throughout I’ve felt that FOMO. Through patience, hard work, and so much support, this weekend was not one of those times.

I just arrived back in Wisconsin after spending 4 days in Mexico, at an all-inclusive resort, for my cousins wedding. I had very few moments where having a drink came to mind, and even in those moments it never sounded like something I wanted. I had more fun with my wife and my family during this trip than I have ever had in Mexico, including for my honeymoon. My sobriety was not a challenge, it was a gift. I enjoyed every morning, went on adventures, truly relaxed, and enjoyed all of the amenities of the fine resort, minus the booze. For those of you who dread a life without alcohol, give it time. After this weekend I am so excited for all of the joys life offers, and if you aren’t there yet, be patient with yourself.

Thank you all for the support you give me here everyday, IWNDWYT!

So I'll start by saying that if I could have things my way, I would have my step-father walk me down the aisle. My parents divorced when I was young, and my father and I had a strained relationship through most of my high school years and college. So my step-father really was the one that was a true father figure to me. My relationship with my father has repaired and we have a much better relationship now, but as you can imagine, this has made the "walk down the aisle" topic very sensitive for everyone. Point blank, I can't choose my dad because it would be a gut-punch to my stepfather and it's just not right. And my dad has the emotional maturity of a 10 year old so if I choose my stepfather it would put a huge cloud over our whole wedding and he would probably never speak to me again. So I figured that, while not my preferred choice, the option that would cause the least amount of drama would be to just walk alone! Simple! Why do I need to be "given away" anyway?

Well apparently I was wrong because this decision doesn't seem to be sitting well with anyone. Both my mother and step-mother are separately giving me guilt trips about walking alone. They don't get along and don't even talk to each other so the fact that both of them separately feel so strongly about this is what's giving me pause. We are having a Catholic wedding and they insist that its "weird and sad" to see a bride in a church wedding walking down the aisle alone! The various reasons they have given are that it implies that the bride doesn't have anyone to give her away or that no one on the brides side is supportive of the marriage so no one wanted to walk her. This is embarrassing to them and they think it will put our family in a bad light. To be clear, they aren't even insisting on my dad or stepdad! They said even my brother, my mom, an uncle, anyone as long as I'm not alone.

Normally I would have brushed them off, and that's the stance that I have been taking. But the more I think about it, I know that my fiance's family is very old school Catholic and many of our guests are in that same generation, so now I'm worried they will have the same perception. So I'm wondering if I should reconsider and have someone neutral like my mom walk me? Hold my stance? I want this to be a happy occasion obviously so I don't want either family to think of my aisle moment as a depressing one!

Curious especially to hear from LatinX brides and grooms (my fiance's family is Mexican and 80% of our

This confused the hell out of me. Was his brother, the burglar, supposed to be the Hotel Clerk?

So I’m in Mexico on a trip with a bridal party. I’m the photographer and the first night I was here the brides father groped me (grabbed both my ass cheeks!) when I asked his family to gather for a photo. I informed the bride and I’m still doing the photos since I’m literally stuck here but I’m so uncomfortable. Just wanted to rant :/ not really sure what to do at this point except ignore the asshat and try to do my best.

Hi everyone, I’m new to Reddit and I’m considering Mexico for a destination wedding (possibly Cancun or Tulum). I plan to invite 50 people and hire a wedding planner. Can you please tell me your experience? Include which hotel you stayed, how much you paid, photographer/Dj used ? I would really appreciate your feedback as I’m hopping it’ll cost around 10-15k

Hello!

Recently got engaged and we've finally decided on getting married in Mexico. There are a lot of options out there and so I was hoping to get some feedback/info from people who have already gone through this process.

What we know we want so far:

- All inclusive resort that is kid friendly - more luxury side would be nice

- About 50 guests

- Around Winter 2022-23

What we would like to know:

- Resorts you guys think are worth checking out (Subjective, I know - but would love to hear from people with first hand experience)

- Anything you wish you did differently or we should watch out for

- is it worth getting a wedding planner?

Any advice or help would be most appreciated!