Venue Guide
Your Wedding at
Chable Maroma
Riviera Maya
Chablé Maroma is a 70-villa luxury resort set directly on Maroma Beach in the Riviera Maya, in the reserve at Punta Maroma about 12 miles north of Playa del Carmen. It is not an all-inclusive, so a wedding here is assembled space by space rather than bought as a package.
Check your dateWhat couples ask first
5 figures, each with the caveat that comes with it.
- 1.1Outside photographers
- Chablé Maroma does not publish an outside vendor policy or a photographer fee.
- 1.2Capacity
- Weddings here accommodate up to 200 guests.
- 1.3Wedding packages
- Quoted, not publishedNo public price we could source. Expect a proposal.
- 1.4Best months
- December to April is the driest and coolest stretch.
- 1.5Airport transfer
- Cancún International (CUN) is the arrival airport, roughly 35 to 40 minutes by road.
What couples choose it for
- 2.1
The ceremony setting is Maroma Beach itself, a private stretch of white sand and shallow turquoise water that the resort fronts directly.
- 2.2
With 70 villas rather than several hundred rooms, a wedding party can occupy a meaningful share of the resort, and because the property is not an all-inclusive the day is built to order rather than slotted into a package.
- 2.3
Five named settings sit within a short walk of one another, so a multi-day celebration can move from the beach to a jungle palapa to a sea-view terrace without ever leaving the property.
- 2.4
The kitchen runs under a culinary programme curated by Jorge Vallejo of Quintonil in Mexico City, with Executive Chef Luis Quiroz on property.
- 2.5
The spa is built around a cenote, which gives a multi-day wedding party something genuinely of the region to do between events.
- 2.6
The region's leading independent planners publish real weddings here, including three-day celebrations for out-of-town couples, so the property is well known to the top production teams in the corridor.
Where you would actually get married
Ceremony
3.1Maroma Beach
The resort's own private beach, backed by dunes and palms with the Caribbean directly behind you.
Reception
3.2Maroma Beach
A reception staged on the sand within the resort's private stretch of beach.
3.3Jungle Palapa
An open thatched palapa reached by a wooden walkway through dense tropical planting, adaptable from a jungle gala to something quieter.
3.4Pool Pergola
A pool terrace between the jungle and the beach with broad sea views, sheltered by a pergola.
3.5Raw Bar by Bu'ul
An elevated terrace with a sweeping view over sand and sea, and the setting the resort names for sunset.
3.6Bu'ul
The contemporary Mexican fine dining room, with an indoor space in local materials and outdoor seating within earshot of the water.
When another venue fits better
Every point is drawn from the venue's own published terms and documented weddings. None of it makes this a bad venue.
- You want the quoted number to be the number.This is not an all inclusive resort. Catering and bar are priced per person and quoted before 16 percent tax and a 15 percent service charge, so the headline figure is not the figure you pay.
- You want the party to run long.The banquet kit treats an event as four hours. An extension or an afterparty triggers a per person food and beverage minimum, and late night service adds an hourly per waiter charge on top.
- You want everyone sleeping on property.There are 70 villas against a wedding capacity of 200 guests, so a large guest list will not all sleep on property and part of the group will be commuting in.
- You want the ceremony here to be the legal one.The resort will host a symbolic ceremony, an official civil ceremony or a Mayan shaman ceremony. The civil route runs through the local civil registry and the document requirements vary by Mexican state, so it is a paperwork decision as much as a ceremony one.
- You need a rain plan you would be happy to use.Several of the settings are open to the sky, including the beach, the pool pergola and the terrace, so a weather plan matters more here than at a property with a ballroom.
The honest considerations
- Not all-inclusive; catering and bar are priced per person, quoted before 16 percent tax and 15 percent service charge.
- Events run four hours; extensions or an afterparty trigger a per-person F&B minimum, plus an hourly per-waiter fee after 11pm.
- 70 villas against a wedding capacity of 200 guests, so a large guest list will not all sleep on property.
- Only one wedding is scheduled per day, so your celebration will not run alongside another.
- Hosts symbolic, official civil, or Mayan shaman ceremonies; civil ceremonies use the local registry, with document rules varying by state.
- Beach, pool pergola and terrace are open to the sky, so a weather plan matters more than at a property with a ballroom.
Arrival, and where you get ready
- 6.1Fly into
- Cancún International (CUN).
- 6.2Then drive
- Roughly 35 to 40 minutes by road. The resort arranges private transfers on request.
- 6.3Arriving at
- Punta Maroma, in the reserve on Maroma Beach, about 12 miles north of Playa del Carmen.
- 6.4Tell guests
- There are 70 villas against a wedding capacity of 200, so anyone staying off property needs the resort's own map pin and a car or transfer both ways.
- 6.5At the airport
- Ignore anyone offering a ride between the arrivals door and the curb, however official they look. Only pre-arranged and federally authorized transport may pick up at the terminal, and the walk-up offers are where the overcharge stories come from. Ride-hailing apps work for the trip back to the airport but are unreliable for arrivals, so do not plan a pickup around one.
- 6.6Book the drive before you fly
- Reserve a private transfer in advance: the driver meets you with a name sign, at a fixed price agreed up front, and tracks your flight if it runs late. We use Private Driver Cancun, WhatsApp +52 984 132 3989, mixofcultures.com. USA Transfers and eTransfers are two long-established operators for larger guest lists.
Where you get ready
Details below come from planners and photographers who have worked the property, not from the venue's own material; confirm with the wedding office.
- Private villa (casita)The private villas, intimate spaces the resort points to for getting-ready photographs and portraits.
- Presidential SuiteThe suite where a documented wedding here had both partners prepare.
What to ask the wedding office
- 6.7
Can we get your current wedding kit and price list? The one online is from January 2023 with no date printed.
- 6.8
What's the venue rental for our spaces, and what does extending past four hours cost, including the F&B minimum and late-night waiter fee?
- 6.9
What's your outside vendor policy and fee for photography and film, and is a day pass required? Nothing is published.
- 6.10
What are the villa rates for our dates, and how many of the 70 villas can you hold for our block?
How the light works at Chable Maroma
On this coast the sun rises over the water and sets behind the jungle, so a late-afternoon ceremony on Maroma Beach falls into open shade well before the official sunset time while the sky over the sea stays bright. That is flattering, even light for vows and it keeps guests from squinting, but it also means the sun will not drop into the ocean behind you. What you get instead is a pastel gradient over the water, and twilight that arrives fast once the sun clears the tree line, so portraits need to sit tight against the ceremony rather than an hour after it. A start around 90 minutes before sunset leaves room for vows, family groups and couple portraits without running out of light. The Raw Bar terrace is the setting the resort names for sunset and sits high enough to read the sky in both directions.
The best time to start your ceremony
Arch's own rule for this coast is to begin the ceremony about 90 minutes before sunset, which leaves the vows in soft light and still keeps time for portraits afterwards. Start times are rounded down to the half hour. Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo. UTC-5 all year: the state left daylight saving in 2015. Times are town level, so they run within a couple of minutes of the property.
- 4:30 pm
- January, October, November, December
Sunset around 6:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- February, March, September
Sunset around 6:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- April, May, June, August
Sunset around 7:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- July
Sunset around 7:30 pm
Planning a wedding at Chable Maroma?
We are based in Playa del Carmen, so there is no travel fee anywhere in Cancun or the Riviera Maya.