The anticipation of your wedding day feels like it couldn’t come any sooner. You believe you’ve thought of everything that could go wrong and swear you prepared for it. But once your wedding comes and goes, you sit there thinking about everything you wish you knew beforehand.
As a 2025 bride, I wish I had considered a handful of things before committing to my destination wedding in Mexico. Although there is a list of things I wish I knew earlier, they didn’t severely impact my big day. Still, knowing these 10 things in advance would have made the wedding weekend seamless.
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1. The Resort Wedding Department Will Ghost You
One of the most unexpected experiences during my destination wedding planning experience was being ghosted by the wedding department. After handing over thousands of dollars to lock in your wedding date, you’d expect they’d be gracious enough to answer your emails and calls in a timely manner, but nope, that doesn’t matter with destination weddings. I noticed this behavior after I sent off one email, which they ignored for two weeks, followed by another email that went unanswered for an additional two weeks, leading to phone calls that went to voicemails.
After six weeks, the wedding department finally responded to my first email and apologized for the delay. They even promised to communicate more efficiently moving forward. However, the team’s apology meant nothing because the same behavior continued for an entire year leading up to my wedding.
Despite my endless complaints, I learned that resort wedding departments only prioritize responses to wedding groups that are two months away. So, for anything before that, prepare to be ignored and ghosted. You’ll get an answer eventually, but not promptly. The best advice I could give is to be annoying and continue sending those emails because they will get answered, but only when the wedding department deems it important.
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