Everything we expected. Special services, great food, amazing attention and Pleasing. Loved every part of how great we were treated.

My husband and I had what I can only describe as a fantasy wedding at the Wyndham Grand Rio Mar with all of our friends and family. I cannot say enough good things about this resort and the staff who run it, but I will try! If you are considering this place as a wedding venue and are prioritizing having a great time with your loved ones or just each other, this is the place. We'd vacationed here a year prior and were so impressed by everything we experienced that we decided to bring our entourage of family and friends here for our wedding.

We went into planning this event with an invitation mindset of, "Come vacation with us... also you're welcome to swing by our wedding on Saturday." We were very much not looking to escape our family and friends, but to spend as much quality time with them as possible. If this matches your wedding philosophy, read on.

Here's a quick rundown of the things we really loved about holding a wedding here:
• It's beautiful - This resort is stunning. The pictures on their website are nice, but you really have to see it in real life. Every corner of the hotel, even the stairwells, was designed to be photo-worthy. The gardens and pools are gorgeous and very well maintained, just walking around is a nice vacation activity by itself. This also makes for a lot of great photo opportunities for your wedding. We have lots of great shots of us and our guests from our stay there.
• It's fun - The Wyndham is a well-oiled machine for having a good time. Everyone vacations differently— some people like adventure trips, some want to play in the ocean, some want a boozy poolside lounge. Because the Wyndham caters to many different types, you can wake up and decide on any given day what you want to do. The breadth of onsite offerings and their partnership with Group Services makes planning fun activities easy, which was a bonus draw for our guests as well.
• The food - Holy heck. I'm not sure what manner of black magic goes on in the kitchens here but whatever they're doing is working. I have not yet had a bad bite of food at any of the places to eat here. Knowing they were going to provide great food at our wedding made planning a destination wedding easy— no tastings were required, and we knew we were never going to have to worry about coordinating yet another vendor for catering.
• Vendor recommendations - Not local? No problem, they have a list of vendors they recommend. This actually made planning even easier since we weren't really hunting down people and reading dozens of online reviews. We wound up with an amazing DJ thanks to their help on this one!
• Room block - Yes, you can get a room block here. The staff was really helpful in getting this set up, and doing so made the trip accessible to many of our guests.

I absolutely MUST give special thanks to the staff at the Wyndham. Every single person we worked with made everything wonderful and easy from the beginning, which took away so much of the stress and doubt of planning a wedding.
Rebecca (wedding coordination and catering) - First and foremost, huge thanks to Rebecca and her assistant Kimberly, who were responsible for wedding coordination and catering. Rebecca did everything from getting our dates locked in to helping plan our meals to coordinating the events the day of. She was on-site at our wedding to make sure everything went perfectly, and it did! We would have been a mess without you, thank you so so very much!
Amarilis (conference services) - Thank you for helping us get our wedding supplies and decorations received to the right place ahead of the wedding. Amarilis gave very helpful and clear instructions on how best to ship items to Puerto Rico. This made a lot of the "destination" part of our wedding go smoothly.
Moraima (sales manager) - Thanks to Moraima for handling contract information and making payments easy for us.
Samuel (room block coordination) - Thanks to Samuel for demystifying the process of getting a room block for our guests— the room block made the difference in being able to afford attending for some of them. Samuel was extremely communicative from the time we requested how to do this through to any deadlines and onward. Very very helpful.
Rene (guest services) - We had nice guest packages that we'd shipped to Puerto Rico, and Rene made sure these all got to our guests at the hotel. No errors or complications.

Thank you so much, we had a great time and so did our guests!

I start this venue will forever be in my heart this was the best place for anyone to ever get married the place is just breathtaking beyond gorgeous in front of the ocean. the guest service is beyond words they will help you and assist you in anyway possible this place is so cleaned so beautifully kept everything is so amazing the food is beyond delicious. The rooms are so spacious and thank you and your wedding party can get dressed and we have extra event rooms where you can also holster parties the ballrooms are beyond gorgeous. I don’t think there could’ve been ever been another ballroom to make your wedding such a beautiful place. Shout out to Rebecca the Wedding Planning at the resort she can help you and assist you as well. This place not only offers a beautiful place for you to host your wedding but your invitees will be more than happy to stay there the resort not only offers for you to stay there but there have villas that can accommodate your guests on the premises which is a short distance from the resort so everyone can stay in the villas or the resort and be together the resort also has wonderful pool‘s hot tubs and casinos that all your guests will be able to have fun.