Mrs. Cream Puff, San Francisco Bay Area
Age and Occupation: 25, Illustrator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Merchandise Planner
Engagement Date: May 27, 2007
Wedding Date: August, 2008
Blogging Since: February 7, 2008
Venue: Ceremony at Crissy Field and Reception at the Green Room
About Me: I never dreamed about my wedding as a little girl because I was too busy playing in the mud or pretending to be Martha Stewart–but now that it's here, I'm having a fabulous time DIYing everything in sight! We’re planning a very fun multicultural wedding (I'm Jewish and Mr. Cream Puff is Chinese), filled with as many personal details as I can muster.
We Did It!
May 2nd, 2008 @ 8:27 am by Mrs. Cream Puff
We booked our honeymoon! I was beginning to think we would never do it, but here we’ve gone and done it. Last night, Mr. Cream Puff sat me down and said, “I think we need to make a decision TONIGHT.” And so we did.
After my last honeymoon post, we got to talking about what we wanted out of our honeymoon. After awhile, I realized that I wanted chi chi. I really did. I wanted chi chi, but we couldn’t afford chi chi in the Caribbean or anywhere else we’d never been before. Basically, we could only afford chi chi in Mexico. So we started looking in Mexico. I wasn’t too wild about going to Mexico (because we went there together a few years ago). Then I started seeing the resorts, and they were just to chi chi to ignore. Fabulous.
SO. Using tripadvisor, we ruled out anything that wasn’t all-inclusive and anything that allowed kids (no kids on my honeymoon, thankyouverymuch). From there, we narrowed down the resorts by reading people’s reviews and looking at their pictures. Pictures from travelers were an important deciding factor for us, because we got to see the rooms, beaches and pools like they really are, not how the hotel wants them to look. We also got to see if there were aspects of other people’s vacations that we wanted to include, like snorkeling. Or aspects that we might NOT want to include, like this:
this picture is from here, because I couldn’t find the actual photo we saw while researching.
Yes, that’s right. We came across that picture during our research. NO THANK YOU! Another thing we discovered while searching though pictures? Apparently there are a lot of iguanas in Playa del Carmen, just in case you were wondering.
Iguana collage made up of traveler pictures from the Adventura Spa Palace on Trip Advisor.
Anyway, after much research, we finally found a great resort. We’ll be spending seven blissful nights there. Check it out (all photos from Trip Advisor)!
We’ll even have some cash left over for spa treatments, which neither of us have had before. On the list of things included in the “all-inclusive” are: bicycle tours, yoga, pilates, a class on making cocktails, snorkeling, and bunches more. I am excited, but it totally doesn’t seem real. Can this really be happening? It seems like it’s been such a long time planning this wedding that it’s never actually going to happen. Weird. In any case, it’s nice to have one less thing to think about.
22 Responses to “We Did It!”
We stayed in this hotel for our honeymoon in December. We love love loved it! The restaurants are great and the service is wonderful! You picked an excellent place.
Ugh, waterspouts. Besides tidal waves, it’s my #2 no-no on the honeymoon. Just not my scene either.
Looks like the Royal? If so, you are going to LOVE it! we went there for a week last year, and it was amazing. So great that we even considered going back for our honeymoon this year, but I really wanted to go somewhere new for both of us. Have a great time!
Congrats on having that figured-out! It’s a relief. We’re doing the Mayan Riviera, too.. staying at smaller B&B’s in Cozumel and Tulum.
Yours will be amazing.
After your honeymoon please let us know how you liked the resort and which one it is. It looks beautiful and I may consider it for our honeymoon next year.
Have fun!
Looks beautiful! My fiance and I are still undecided on the honeymoon and I am stressing out about it. We are getting married in late Aug of this year; would we have to worry about hurricanes in Mexico at that time?
Water spouts aren’t a big deal. Sure, they look scary, but they cause no real harm. They fall apart as soon as they reach the shore. What you should worry about are hurricanes!
The resort you picked looks lovely. And the cocktail- making class sounds like a lot of fun!
Congrats, Miss Creampuff! Can you please share the name of this gorgeous resort? We’re still in the planning phase of our honeymoon, and this looks perfect…
Excellent! We’re doing Playa, too (Secrets Capri resort)
Yeaaa!! congrats on booking the resort. We were in the same boat…. we wanted to have a relaxing getaway (thinking of overwater bungalows in Taihiti)… unless we saw the $$$$ pricetag per NIGHT!
soo… after dwelling on the destinations topic forever… we booked Mexico as well! We’re staying at Le Blanc for 5 nights =)
Gorgeous! Looks like an amazing place. We used tripadvisor a ton for our honeymoon research too…what did we do before the internet?
Hooray for Mexican honeymoons! We stayed at a different all inclusive in that area and loved it. Service is impeccable. You will have an amazing time.
So pretty!!! do you mind emailing me the name of the resort?! we are looking to honeymoon in that area!
thank you!
We stayed there in October for our honeymoon..by far the best resort i have ever stayed at..u’ll love it…we did…the food..the room..the service…best overall….you must go to xaceret while ur there..best excursion…so much fun..but dont go until like 11..cause its a long day and they have a hug show that you dont want to miss at the end of the monday…HAVE A BLAST….:)
MEANT TO SAY HUGE SHOW:) HEHEHEHE NOT A HUG SHOW:)
@Kara:
ITS THE ROYAL PLAYA DEL CARMEN…FABULOUS:)
What fun, congrats!!
(PS I had to laugh at your waterspout photo — reminds me of a grad school trip to St Martin. In a hurricane! It was actually pretty fun — we definitely got to see aspects of island life most tourists don’t run into! — but you’re wise to consider such things in your honeymoon plans….)
Congrats on picking a Honeymoon location!
You are going to love it there… my sister’s BF (and my BF’s sister) went there for her honeymoon last year and LOVE IT! (I recognize it from her pictures).
Ohh man! You and your future hubby are going to have a blast there! My fiance and I stayed there last summer for our yearly trip. It was wonderful!! The beach is nice and clean! 5th ave was about a block away and 7 different restaurants to choose from! (including the sister hotel) My favorite dish was the steak at Pelicanos! delish!
From what I heard by others on the way back to the airport, they were only able to eat at one restaurant per day at their AI resort. bummer for them!
Hurricanes are definitely and issue for that time of year but you can get insurance for that. I am curious to those who have been to the Maya Riviera recently, how is it since the last round of hurricane in 05-06? I have heard that the beaches are not the same and that Cancun and the surrounding areas will not return to how gorgeous they were for years to come. Is that true?
Yay! Thanks for all the encouragement and tips, you guys! I will definitely review it after the fact. 
