We had our destination wedding at Jellyfish restaurant 2 weeks ago. The venue was absolutely gorgeous and we were very happy with our choice! The food and service were excellent as well and since they have a lot of weddings there, they have a variety of decor options to choose from and the decor at our wedding was just stunning! I would definitely recommend Jellyfish for anyone planning a destination wedding in Punta Cana, however there were a couple of things that did not go as planned on my wedding day that I'd like to share here as well.

I had a bit of trouble communicating with the wedding coordinator in advance of the wedding day. Many of my questions went unanswered and I often had to ask more than once until I got clarification on things. When we had a scheduled phone call, the wedding coordinator was unavailable and she often seemed too busy. Most of the communication ended up being over email.

Since I sensed that the wedding coordinator was not always on top of things, i made sure to be extra organized and clear in all the documents I shared with her. I sent her both digital copies of seating arrangements, timelines, etc and I also took hard copies to her a couple days before the wedding to make sure nothing was missed.

Despite this, there were a few crucial things forgotten and I didnt find out until after my cocktail hour. The first thing was that our DJ did not have all of the music that I had selected. I had shared these with the wedding coordinator in advance, but somehow, we found out that the DJ just had music up to cocktail hour. This was extremely stressful for us as we found out right before we were supposed to have our entrance into the reception. Having to deal with resending the music to the DJ set back our timeline by about 30 minutes and caused a huge amount of stress for me.

At the same time that I was trying to deal with that, my maid of honor came to me and said that there were no name cards in the reception area and guests didnt know where to sit. Our wedding coordinator had promised to print those out for me, but she had not done it. Since I was super stressed and in the middle of dealing with the music, I ask my maid of honor to seat guests where she thought they should go as I had no time to deal with the seating issue. The frustrating thing was that I had spent many hours working on my seating chart to ensure that guests are sitting near people they get along with. The lack of name cards also caused a lot of confusion for guests (interrupted the flow of events) and caused a lot of stress for my maid of honor as well.

During the time that we were working out these two major issues which were the result of our wedding coordinator not doing what she had promised, she was no where to be found. In fact, I did not see her again until several hours later. This was so frustrating as she had promised to be there the entire event to make sure things run smoothly. I kept desperately asking other staff where she is and no one knew or was willing to tell me.

Over all, I loved my wedding at jellyfish and our amazing MC, Jehison Cabrera was there to help with some of the issues we faced, but there was probably a solid hour of the event that was very stressful and frustrating for me and really impacted my experience. I put so much time and effort into planning every detail and I felt like Farah did not take my event very seriously. A few days later when I shared my experience with her, she was not at all apologetic and didnt take any responsibility for what happened.

My advice to anyone planning a wedding at jellyfish is to have your wedding here for sure because it is absolutely beautiful, but be on top of every detail (maybe more reminders to wedding coordinator) and maybe take more into your own hands if you can.