Melody Vanessa and Axel, Pueblito Mayakoba’ and Grand Coral wedding
I know you guys are tired to hear me say that I always get the best clients, but I DO!!!
This week´s featured wedding makes my heart sing. I want to start with a quote from R. Queen, because this quote made me think about what do we do and how we do it. We love our work, because we cherish every client, we never take for granted our vendors and we show our passion. That is the secret of our success.
Axel and Melody Vanessa are such kindred spirits, that when we met via Skype with their young son Mateo i just loved them with a passion.
They were young, in love, accomplished, living in California, had 2 kids, and they had very clear ideas about their wedding.
A Catholic wedding in a unique location. lots of great music, amazing food, incredible scenery. A memory to cherish for years to come.
I had a vision:
the church at Pueblito Mayakoba’ and Grand Coral.
BAM! they loved it!
We want to show it off immediately with a 4´ video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AQI4_RH7n19wCptITn70NkEpIfd6DJt4/view
Mayakoba, an eco-resort on the shores of the Caribbean in Mexico, opened Riviera Maya’s newest attraction and event venue, El Pueblito, a few years ago.
Modelled after the historic plazas of Mexico, El Pueblito transports the culture and charm of Colonial Merida and San Miguel de Allende to the sandy beaches and jungle landscape of Mayakoba and is set to be the destination’s most sought-after location for weddings and private events.
Anchored by a beautiful white chapel – christened La Santa Cruz – the venue features a cozy park with a traditional kiosk in the center of the esplanade for entertainment, as well as shops and restaurants to create a traditional plaza. El Pueblito is accessible from Playa in 15 minutes and offers guests a new option not only for events, but also for socialising, casual dining, shopping, and fun for the whole family. The gentle manager, Mauricio, even allowed the bride to use the prepping room for make up and last touches! Thanks Mauricio.
The ceremony was touching but also light, with Father Quin performing in English and Spanish for the bilingual families.
After the ceremony, a quick bus ride to Grand Coral for the 55 guests where food and tequila was waiting for all….
Dinner in a simple yet unforgettable setting, thanks to Chef Rigel from Grand Coral Beach Club.
The party was great fun, Axel is a great lap dancer…. ahaha!
Every guest had great fun, including the little ones.
Congratulations for a life time of happiness!!!
Credits
Restaurant
Grand Coral Beach Club, Chef Rigel
Photos and video
Fun in the sun Wedding photography THANKS!
Hair
Vo-evolution by Natasha Bitch
Church
La Santa Cruz Pueblito at Mayacoba
Wedding organiser
Maria Tripaldi at weddingsinplaya.com
Sophie and Sean at Blue Venado
This featured wedding is a gem.
Not only because of the incredible beauty of details, people and places…. but specially because of the 2 who got married at Blue Venado, Playa del Carmen, last February 18th.
Sophie & Sean are 2 such amazing people: they are vital, funny, intelligent, kind, generous, witty, lovely and they love traveling !! all qualities that speak to me incessantly (this is me, Maria, reporting).
They met in the summer of 2009 working at the Orange Peel, a music venue in downtown Asheville, a city in western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, known for a vibrant arts scene and historic architecture.
Sophie was immediately attracted to Sean’s ability to make everyone laugh; he is able to notch up any joke anyone could tell… so during a real conversation, Sophie told Sean about her dream to quit her job and take a long-term backpacking trip around Latin America…without hesitation he said “I’m coming with you”!
By November, they were inseparable….Sophie brought Sean to meet the Miller family for the first time after only a few months of dating…at Thanksgiving dinner. After that first trip they started off again to Asia and i am sure they are plotting something as I write….
Christmas of 2014 Sean surprised Sophie with the cutest gift – an 8 week old miniature Golden doodle who has since become their child… Check the wedding photo below to see how they kept Frankie present at the ceremony!
Sean proposed in June of 2016 at Falls Park in Greenville, on their way home from seeing Sophie’s favorite singer, John Prine. Sean prepared a killer music list at the wedding: and Dj Kipper had everybody dance, as you see!!!
Sophie and Sean decided to plan a destination wedding because they wanted to give their guests the opportunity to see Mexico! they came to see me twice and loved the location i proposed: jungly evergreen BV or Blue Venado. Many were in Mexico for the 1st time! tequilaaa
They wanted the wedding to reflect all of the journeys they’ve been on together. Sophie made napkins with brightly coloured Guatemalan and Thai fabric. She made runners from macrame. And of course, beautiful fuchsia and orange flowers to accent the white Papel Picado flags and globe lights. It was a colourful and spectacular event!
And we come to now:
Artsy Blue Venado World tour Wedding : Sophie wanted the details and Sean wanted the party so they got these amazing details filled with killer music: the Party of their life! It was an endless party and the Millermacks got to really bond!!
Sean and Sophie feel eternally grateful for their tribe in Asheville, CT & NY & all over the world who love & support them through whatever life throws their way, and to spend the rest of their lives together!
QUE VIVAN LOS MILLERMACKS!
THANKS TO :
Photography: Quetzal Photography
Hair & Makeup: Alesia Solomko
Flowers: Vanessa Jaimes Floral Design
Dress: BHLDN
Video: Button Up Video
Cake: Shoe Box Bakery
DJ: DJ Kipper
Kesha & Kevin Wedding at Paamul Beach – Playa del Carmen
This wedding was a family affair: Kesha and Kevin knew Paamul as the parents of Kevin spent a few years living there . The joint families, friends and the kids came to celebrate one week of absolute bliss, crowned by the wedding day, on a warm February afternoon.
We love our clients and we enjoy the happiness on their faces when all is said and done. The work done before it, you do not see….
only the end result. But before that there are hours and hours of precious planning. It is my privilege to share all the tricks i have learned in 18 year of event planning with all of my clients.
Here, on this pages, i will let Kesha and Kevin talk and tell their story …. so you can see what happens before, during and after:
She said:
i would love to get married in Playa del Carmen and … I got married in Playa!
This is Kesha :
When we decided that we were having our wedding in the Playa del Carmen area, I was determined to do all of the work myself.
But I quickly found out that i was very overwhelmed and lost. It didn’t even occur to me to hire a wedding planner. I happened to be talking to a girl at work that I knew and found that her brother and sister-in-law had used Maria for their PDC wedding. I immediately emailed her and set up a Skype appointment with her almost 2 years prior to our wedding date.
When we spoke with her, she was so warm and friendly and calming. What really sold me was after describing to her what we were looking for, the first place she suggested was the one of the places that we were thinking about. My husbands parents had lived in Paamul(12 miles S of PDC) for several years and we had always said that if we did get married it would be there.
Since they had sold their place and moved back to the states, we weren’t 100% positive that we would still do it there. But it seemed like fate when she suggested Paamul, it just was meant to be that we were to get married there and Maria was the person that was supposed to make that happen. I was elated! and we worked at it for 22 months…..
Maria made my every wish come true!
Kevin: I wanted to make Kesha happiest: Maria respected all of our wishes and could see our exact vision in her head. She has amazing contacts and was able to facilitate any relationship with the vendors. We got the best flowers decoration and the DJ was incredible!
There is not one single thing that I would change about our day except to make it last longer. I not only had the wedding of my dreams to share with the people most special to me, I gained an amazing friend out of it. Much love Maria!!!
…. simply… happy ever after!
Kesha and Kevin
Photo credits Alessandro Bacchelli AB Photography
Paamul restaurant Kalu’
DJ Diego Alvarado
