Each year nearly 5,000 couples head to Cancun, Mexico to have a destination wedding. Located on the northeastern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula and bordered by the Caribbean Sea and tranquil Nichupte Lagoon, Cancun boasts a 16-mile stretch of beach filled with numerous hotels.
These are among Cancun hotels especially welcoming to destination wedding parties:
Adults-only Le Blanc Spa Resort offers a free wedding as a part of its all-inclusive vacation packages. Wedding packages offer the choice of a wedding on the beach or in the resort’s wedding gazebo, all document arrangements, a Justice of the Peace, marriage certificate, and dinner reservations for up to 25 guests from the wedding party. Also included is a LeBlanc Honeymoon Package that provides keepsake “Honeymooners” embroidered bathrobes, a nightly variety of petit fours, flower arrangements, a fruit platter, a beach bag, sparkling wine and late checkout.
The Royal is an all-suite, all-inclusive, and all-adult beachfront propertyand one of many resorts to provide on-site blood testing for both the bride and groom, a legal requirement for marriage in Mexico. Wedding packages consist of the required legal services, a personal wedding coordinator, a beachfront setting for the ceremony, a 30-minute couple’s massage, the bridal bouquet and groom’s boutonniere, as well as a wedding cake. This hotel is home to the first freestanding resort wedding chapel in Cancun.
Palace Resorts, one of the most popular choices for destination weddings in Cancun, offers a free wedding package for guests at its all-inclusive Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort. This option includes all document arrangements, a wedding coordinator, a Justice of the Peace to conduct the ceremony, a marriage license and certificate, a wedding gazebo as the ceremony site, four bottles of champagne, breakfast in bed the following morning, and additional products and services.
Customized wedding packages are also available from all of these resorts, as well as many other properties throughout Cancun.
At the Ritz-Carlton, Cancun, a wedding specialist plans every detail. Resort chefs are available to customize the ideal wedding cake as well as to cater meals that range from gourmet buffets to champagne cocktails, including vegetarian, vegan, and kosher cuisines. An assortment of wedding and honeymoon packages provides romantic and intimate touches throughout the couple’s stay, including casitas, homemade cabanas that offer candlelit dinners for two with a private saxophonist on the beach.
Catholic couples who wish to marry in a beachfront ceremony authorized by the Catholic Church can do so at Cancun’s two Marriott resorts, the JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa and the CasaMagna Marriott Cancun Resort . Both have recently been authorized to perform Catholic weddings by the Bishop of Cancun and their Nuptial Gazebos have been approved for use as Catholic altars.
Couples at the Fiesta Americana Coral Beach Grand can opt for a Grand Romance package that includes oceanfront suite accommodations, a beachside candlelight dinner, two massages, daily breakfast, a bouquet of flowers, a chilled bottle of champagne and chocolate dipped strawberries, a rose petal turndown, and two robes souvenirs, and other romantic amenities.
