Barefoot Bride Rachel’s Jellyfish Wedding Vendors

Guest Blogger Rachel, a Barefoot Bride married at Jellyfish Restaurant Punta Cana on April 20, 2024, shares a full review of all her vendors!

Hello! I wanted to write a review of our wonderful vendors for our 4/20/24 at Jellyfish Restaurant in Punta Cana. I truly couldn’t have dreamed of a more perfect day (and I am a VERY type A person so choosing to do a destination wedding and put so much trust in others was daunting at first, but I don’t regret it at all).

Venue: Jellyfish restaurant

Jellyfish is absolutely breathtaking, it looks so beautiful in pictures and it's somehow more beautiful in person! The inside of the restaurant is so elegant and the view looking out into the blue water with all of the boats is just perfect. Farah and Gianna/decor were absolutely amazing I cant say enough good words, they took our inspo images and our wishes for the wedding day and made everything absolutely perfect. Farah is SO hard working and will make sure that every detail is covered. Gianna/the decor team made the venue BEAUTIFUL and it was exactly what we wanted. The flowers and tables were so beautiful and I had simply sent them some pictures and color themes, and they turned it in to a perfect dream. It was honestly very nice just sending what I envisioned and having it recreated, rather than having to sit and look at a bunch of different flowers and then have to pick (and it was much less work for us this way as well). The food/drinks were SO good, all of the guests couldn't stop raving about how amazing the service was, if a drink was half empty, the servers would refill it immediately. The dance floor on the beach was SO SO FUN, and everyone that theyve never seen a more full dance floor at the wedding the entire time. The DJ was amazing! Jellyfish also arranges all of the transportation, literally any little detail you think of the will have you covered. Our guests truly said this was the best wedding theyve ever been to and no one can stop talking about it. I looked at other venues in the area and Jellyfish just had absolutely everything we were looking for, I wouldnt have changed anything! The only things I had to bring myself (and only because I wanted to), were a guest book for people to sign (we had a custom made one that said Punta Cana with our date from Etsy and we did the polaroids as well), and a small memorial sign for our grandparents. Jellyfish literally took care of everything else, including seating chart, card box, etc. They also arrange transportation for the bridal party and guests to and from the restaurant. It was also extremely safe and near a bunch of resorts.

Hair/make up: Asavi Style Wedding Hair & Makeup in Punta Cana / Bavaro.

Anastasia and her team did an AMAZING job on my hair and make up for wedding day. I had found her via the Jellyfish Brides facebook page and loved the look of her brides- beautiful makeup but did not look too caked on. She was so kind and communicated great about everything, her and her team were very organized and had us give them examples of each hair/makeup style for the bridesmaids before hand which my bridesmaids loved. Her and her makeup artists came to our resort room the morning of which was very convenient. Everyone looked BEAUTIFUL and even with the humidity/wind all of our make up lasted all night long! My bridesmaids kept saying it's the best make up theyve ever had for a wedding. The airbrush does not come off all day/night.

Photography: GGG photography

Georges and the GGG team were wonderful! They captured the most beautiful pictures of us, from the first look up through the wedding, and were very familiar with the best places and poses to capture amazing moments at Jellyfish. We saw some sneak peeks and they're AMAZING, we cannot wait to see the rest. They were so kind and easy to work with, and they kept the mood calm. They made sure we had all of our family shots that we wanted during cocktail and plenty of beautiful couples pictures, they also got great shots of the dance floor. They worked with the videographer to make sure both got the best shots with the best lighting, it was so clear how much they cared.

Travel agent: Barefoot Bridal and Renny Travel

Sharon, Carol, and the barefoot bridal team were so amazing to work with, they helped us organize the resort stays and transportation to/from airport (with Renny travel) for all 76 guests, and it went seamlessly without any issues! Any question that guests had about the resort, Barefoot Bridal was able to help with and they were very responsive. They also helped me communicate with the resort and figure out details about gift bags, and other details. They were SO helpful with planning all of this and so reliable, they took a ton of the stress off of us leading up to the wedding. The organization of the riders from the airport was so easy (which was something I was worried about as I didnt want any of our guests stranded).

Videography: heartbeatvideo.com

Juan was amazing, he worked great with our photographers to get great video shoots. He was professional, kind and easy to work with. He got some amazing shots and really put effort in to get the best videos, he even stayed past his contract timeline to continue shooting a bit. We cannot wait to see the video. We weren’t even going to get videography at first but his prices and reviews were great and we are so excited that we did now.

Signing Off!

I hope this is helpful for any future Punta Cana brides, I found the reviews on different blogs/Facebook pages to be SO helpful in picking vendors. I am SO happy we went with destination wedding and that we chose each vendor that we did, it was truly the best week/day ever!

Love,
Barefoot Bride Rachel