Mexico Destination Wedding of Yuliya and Misha

Mexico Destination Wedding of Yuliya and Misha

We couldn't be more excited for Yuliya and Misha! We have enjoyed getting to know them over the past year and are so glad they had a beautiful day for their wedding. Misha of Seaside Weddings captured the beautiful images and Nick of Nick!Hola! participated in making it a night for them to always remember!

Yuliya and Misha, thank you for trusting us with this most important of days!

 

See 40 more images of this wedding on Yuliya and Misha's real wedding gallery.

Riviera Maya Destination Wedding

Riviera Maya Destination Wedding

In August we previewed the destination wedding of Eilleen and Trevor. Today, we are treated to a stunning video trailer from Sweet Caribbean Photography. The day was just perfect and all details masterly done by wedding planner Natalia Schweitzer at weddingsonthebeach.com.mx a company located in the most exclusive area of Riviera Maya and floral design by Vanessa Jaimes at  http://www.vanessajaimes.com. These passionate professionals know how to pull off the most beautiful weddings and we love having them at Villa La Joya!

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Turtle Conservation at Villa La Joya

Turtle Conservation at Villa La Joya

Villa La Joya and Playa Paraiso are committed to the care of the environment, that is why we actively participate in the sea turtle sanctuary and protection program, joining forces with the municipal government of Solidaridad, with whom we have signed a collaboration agreement Playa Paraiso Home Owners Association  has built and installed a Sea Turtle hatchery which currently host more than 100 sea turtle nests containing over 5,000 eggs of the species Chelonia Mydas and Caretta which are under the constant care of biologist, technicians and volunteers that supports the protection and sanctuary program, so far this season releasing about 700 offspring on our beaches and it is expected that in the next months more hatchings and releases will be achieved.

Venues such as Villa La Joya have hosted training, and education programs for volunteers,  trainers and offered their facilities for other events related to the sea turtle sanctuary and protection program, in addition, Villa La Joya has a team of specialists (biologists) and volunteer technicians added to the program protection of the marine turtle of the municipality of Solidaridad 2017, the entire association of owners of Playa Paraiso have joined forces in these actions in favor of the environment, with economic donations through the collaboration agreement signed with this government agency, all for the common good of this species in danger of extinction.

We are educating groups of school children to participate in the releases and to be observers to these miracles of nature

Join this important work. be an observer, be a participant, become environmentalists.

 

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Destination Wedding of Eileen & Trevor

Destination Wedding of Eileen & Trevor

This is a sneak peek of a dream wedding from last weekend! We love having couples show their style and this was the beautiful seaside Mexico destination wedding. The property is a blank canvas and Natalia of Wedding on the Beach and floral designer Vanessa Jaimes painted a perfect picture!

Eileen wrote a sweet note,

"Villa la Joya is one of the most breath taking venues I have ever seen. Mike went above and beyond to make sure my family and I had everything taken care of. I felt like Mike treated me like family to make sure my wedding day was perfect. I could never thank him enough for all he did for me and my family on my wedding day. Everything about this location is perfect, the view of the ocean is beautiful and the grounds are spectacularly maintained."

Fine Art Wedding Photography: Moni & Adri Photography
Planning by: Weddings on the beach
Venue: Villa La Joya
Floral Designer: Vanessa Jaimes - Floral Design

Destination Wedding Planning Advice from Rose Torres

Destination Wedding Planning Advice from Rose Torres

We were fortunate to have hosted a Wedding Affair with Rose Torres as the featured speaker. Manuel and his team fromhttp://www.villaweddingphotofilms.com/ captured the footage and edited into this wonderful presentation. Rose speaks about wedding planning in general and also specifically destination weddings and why Villa La Joya is a standout in the market.

 

For our English speaking friends, we have transcribed the video below:

When you have a client that is interested on location, one of the most important points is the venue, which is what the client wants when coming to the Mexican Caribbean is to see the ocean.

That this location be a beach or if the client wants a garden or that the location be decorated with a terrace because there are brides that do not want to take off their heels and when we go to the beach, we have to leave the heels behind.

Another important characteristic is the schedule extension; locations have a fixed schedule to end the party and not only does the national market want their weddings to last until one or two in the morning. It’s good to have this possibility, even though there are couples who want their wedding to end early, but there are others that if we could offer them the sunrise, they would do it.

For wedding planners, the logistics part is very important, as we work on that location, we want to know what facilities are offered, but this logistics part where we can function in accordance to the complexity of the event and that the location has this accessibility that if we want to make grand productions, we are able to do it; we highly value that point in each of the locations we offer our customers.

We value that we as planners can bring in our suppliers and in that way we work more easily with some services with certain companies. When we arrive at a location and have to work with certain suppliers, this implies a risk because we don’t know their work and somehow we already have a certain complicity between the suppliers we have and with whom we have been working. When a location allows us access to external suppliers, that is wonderful.

Villa La Joya is a location we always consider because it has all these characteristics and virtues, it is a magnanimous place, in front of the ocean, it offers us extended schedules, it has a very accessible value for our customers and the logistics part is always very easy to work with them; honestly it is a place worth recommending.

A location is very attractive for a wedding planner when it has a commissionable cost, that means that one as wedding planner does not have to alter the cost but rather it is already commissioned. The venue commissions the planners for the volume sales as it should be, and another of the important things is the schedule extension; having those two aspects and a spectacular view is what we are looking for.

Part of the cost is important however it comes down to falling in love with the place.