I'm Cheryl Bailey, founder of Yellow Umbrella Events - and if you're planning a destination wedding at an all-inclusive resort in Mexico, there's a good chance I've already solved the exact problem you're about to face.

I've spent years specializing in one of the most misunderstood corners of the travel industry: destination wedding room block management. Most couples don't know that managing the hotel side of a destination wedding is an entirely different skill set from planning the wedding itself. The resort contracts are complex, the room block agreements have landmines buried in the fine print, and the guest communication can spiral into chaos faster than you'd think. My entire business exists to prevent that - to step between you and the expensive mistakes, the resort regret, and the guest confusion that derails so many beautiful weddings before they even begin.

My company has one defining credential that I'm especially proud of: we are the world's #1 seller of Hotel Xcaret Mexico weddings, with over 450 weddings successfully completed at that property alone. That's not a marketing claim - it's a track record built one couple at a time, over hundreds of weddings, at one of Mexico's most sought-after luxury resort experiences. No one knows Hotel Xcaret like we do. No one has navigated its contracts, its room categories, its policies, and its quirks more times than my team.

But Hotel Xcaret is just one piece of what we do. Yellow Umbrella Events works across the premier all-inclusive resorts in Cancun, Playa del Carmen, and Cabo San Lucas. I've walked these properties, built relationships with the people who work them, and developed the kind of institutional knowledge that only comes from doing this - repeatedly, at scale - over many years.

I've personally traveled extensively to experience, research, and vet the resorts we recommend. For me, this isn't a desk job. I travel to understand the guest experience firsthand - the room quality, the food and beverage, the beach, the vibe at 10pm on a Saturday when your 80 guests are together celebrating someone you love. That on-the-ground knowledge shapes every recommendation I make.

My team mirrors that same standard. Fabiola Acosta, our Mexico-native wedding sales consultant, brings resort-side experience that gives us a perspective most US based planners simply don't have. She understands how these properties operate from the inside - which means we can navigate situations and negotiations that others can't. Together, we respond to client questions mostly same-day, because I know that when you're managing a wedding guest list and coordinating room blocks across time zones, waiting days for an answer isn't an option.

Over the years, I've come to believe that destination wedding couples deserve a specialist, not a generalist. The all-inclusive resort world has its own language, its own customs, and its own set of traps. My clients don't have to learn any of that. That's my job - and honestly, it's my passion.

I've also had the privilege of traveling far beyond Mexico for personal research and bucket-list experiences - most recently completing a luxury expedition to Antarctica that I can honestly say changed the way I think about what travel can do to a person. Those experiences shape the way I serve my clients. I understand the difference between a trip that was fine and a trip that was transformative. I want every destination wedding we manage to be the latter - not just for the couple, but for every single guest who made the trip to celebrate with them.

If you're planning a destination wedding in Mexico and you want someone in your corner who has seen everything, negotiated everything, and genuinely loves what they do - I'd love to connect.

-Cheryl