How many guests can Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Resort & Spa hold for a wedding?

Up to 280 with the Presidential package, a tent required above 110. Restaurant receptions cap at 40 to 60. The smaller packages cover 10 to 40 guests.

When is the best time to get married at Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Resort & Spa?

October to December is the sweet spot, with the rains gone and evenings cooler. June to September is rainy season. May and October are quieter shoulder months.

Venue Guide

Your Wedding at
Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya
Resort & Spa

Akumal

An all-inclusive resort on the Akumal coast where the ceremony beaches are kept separate from the guest swimming areas, and where a consecrated chapel, gardens, jungle and beach all sit inside one property.

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We have photographed 1 wedding at Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Resort & Spa.

Wedding at Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Resort & Spa photographed by Arch Wedding Studio — Meghan & Levi 2025, photographed by Arch Wedding Studio

The short answer

What couples ask first

Outside photographer

No outside photographer fee or restriction appears in the resort's 2026 wedding brochure or weddings pages, and outside photographers regularly shoot weddings here.

Capacity

Up to 280 with the Presidential package, a tent required above 110.

Best months

October to December is the sweet spot, with the rains gone and evenings cooler.

From the airport

On Highway 307 at km 256.3, about 25 minutes and 35 km south of Playa del Carmen.

Why this venue

What couples choose it for

Ceremonies are held on exclusive beaches that the resort keeps separate from the areas where swimming guests are, so the aisle is not shared with sunbathers.
Two authentic Mayan vestiges stand within the property, and the ceremony settings sit where the jungle meets the sea rather than on a single strip of sand.
A religious service in the consecrated seaside chapel, a symbolic union by the shore, or a traditional Mayan ritual.
Five distinct settings are offered on the property, so a couple can choose chapel, garden, beach, jungle or palapa without leaving the resort.
The published packages scale from a ten guest elopement to a celebration of 280, so the property suits both a very small wedding and a large one.
Every package includes an on site wedding coordinator, and the weddings department publishes a direct email, a direct extension and toll free numbers for the US, Canada and Mexico.

The spaces

Where you would actually get married

Ceremony

Chapel A consecrated chapel by the sea for a religious ceremony, in a quiet and intimate setting a short walk from the ceremony beaches.
Beach Ceremonies on exclusive sand that the resort keeps separate from the guest swimming areas, with the Caribbean directly behind the couple.
Garden The resort's tropical gardens, with exotic planting and flowering colour, for couples who want greenery rather than sand underfoot.
Jungle A ceremony set inside the tropical jungle on the property, surrounded by dense planting and birdsong rather than open water.

Reception

Palapa A thatched open air palapa right by the sea, the resort's own post ceremony space for toasts and dinner in the ocean breeze.
Private beach reception A four hour private reception on the sand, included in the Presidential package with round tables, linen, cake and an audio operator.
A la carte restaurant The Gold package takes over an Italian or Mediterranean a la carte restaurant privately for four hours; the Silver package uses a non private restaurant for 90 minutes.
Meeting rooms (Akumal, Bacalar, Cozumel, ABC) Four indoor rooms seating 10 to 50 for a banquet and up to 88 for a cocktail, useful for a welcome event or an indoor fallback.

The honest case against

When another venue fits better

Every point below comes from the venue's own published terms and from documented weddings. None of it makes this a bad venue. It makes it the wrong one for some couples, and better to know now.

You have guests who want to stay somewhere else.At least 80 percent of the guests must be staying at the resort, and the wedding packages are only valid for guests booked into Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Resort & Spa.
You are reading the package price as the price of the wedding.The wedding package services sit outside the all inclusive plan, cannot be swapped for other services, and anything not listed in a package carries an additional charge.
You want to be legally married here and take the certificate home.A legal ceremony means arriving at least four business days early and produces a Spanish language certificate valid only in Mexico. Translation, apostille and shipping to the US or Canada is a separate 757 USD.
You want a Catholic ceremony without buying the top package.A Catholic ceremony is available only with the Presidential package or by renting the Palapa-Chapel, so the religious option is tied to the spend. The ceremony itself is then priced separately again: the 2026 brochure lists a Catholic ceremony charge of 39,700 MXN / 2,146 USD, distinct from the Presidential package price of 162,702 MXN / 8,795 USD.
Your date is a Sunday or a national holiday, or your list runs long.Weddings on a Sunday or a Mexican national holiday carry a 193 USD surcharge, groups over 110 on the Presidential package need a tent at additional cost, and any wedding over 15 guests must select a fixed menu.
Your date sits between June and September.That is the rainy season on this coast, so an outdoor ceremony in those months needs a credible indoor fallback agreed with the coordinator in advance.

Before you book

The honest considerations

At least 80 percent of guests must stay at the resort, and wedding packages are only valid for guests booked into Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Resort & Spa.
Wedding package services sit outside the all inclusive plan, can't be swapped for other services, and anything not listed carries an extra charge.
A legal ceremony needs arrival at least 4 business days early and yields a Spanish certificate valid only in Mexico; translation, apostille, shipping extra.
A Catholic ceremony is available only with the Presidential package or by renting the Palapa-Chapel, so the religious option is tied to spend.
Sunday or national holiday weddings carry a surcharge; groups over 110 on Presidential need a tent at extra cost; weddings over 15 guests need a fixed menu.
June to September is rainy season on this coast, so an outdoor ceremony in those months needs a credible indoor fallback agreed with the coordinator in advance.

Getting here

Arrival, and where you get ready

Fly intoCancun International (CUN).
Then driveAllow up to 90 minutes by road from Cancun airport. The resort sits on Highway 307 at km 256.3, about 25 minutes and 35 km south of Playa del Carmen.
Arriving atThe Akumal coast, well south of Playa del Carmen. The ceremony beaches here are kept separate from the guest swimming areas.
Tell guestsThe address is a highway kilometre marker rather than a street. Give drivers km 256.3 on Highway 307, and ask the resort for its own map pin to forward.
At the airportIgnore 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.
Book the drive before you flyReserve 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.

What to ask the wedding office

Send these verbatim. Each one is either unpublished, negotiable, or changes with your date.

The outside photographer fee and any day pass charge for our date, in writing.
What the 80 percent rule means at our real guest count, and what happens if a few people book into another hotel.
The full list of what our package excludes, in writing, since anything not listed carries an additional charge.
The total cost of a Catholic ceremony: the brochure prices it at 39,700 MXN / 2,146 USD separately from the package, or we can rent the Palapa-Chapel.
Which exchange rate applies to our balance, since the brochure calls its 18.50 MXN to 1 USD rate illustrative only and figures may change.

The venue grandsirenisrivieramayaresort.com · The resort runs a staffed weddings department: weddings.mx@sirenishotels.com and +52 984 875 1700 ext 5249. One warning: grandsirenis.com is a parked for-sale domain and is not the venue.

From behind the camera

How the light works here

This coast faces east, so the sun rises over the water and sets behind the jungle and the resort buildings rather than over the sea. In practice the ceremony beach drops into open shade in the late afternoon while the sky above it is still bright, which is soft, even light for vows and portraits. The trade off is that there is no sun dipping into the water behind you here; what you get instead is a pastel gradient of pinks, purples and blues over the ocean. Starting the ceremony about 90 minutes before official sunset leaves room for family groupings and couple portraits before the light goes. After the sun disappears, blue hour over the shallow turquoise water glows even in low light and the white sand acts as a natural reflector, which is worth stepping away from the reception for.

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. Start times are rounded to the half hour for these coordinates. Akumal, 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.

Start around	Months	Sunset
4:30 pm	January, October, November, December	around 6:00 pm
5:00 pm	February, March, September	around 6:30 pm
5:30 pm	April, May, August	around 7:00 pm
6:00 pm	June, July	around 7:30 pm

Where each space sits

BeachEast, open Caribbean directly behind the coupleThe ceremony sand is kept separate from the guest swimming areas, so the background stays clean. Because the sun sets behind the jungle and the buildings rather than over the sea, this beach drops into open shade while the sky above it is still bright - soft, even light for vows, and a pastel gradient of pinks, purples and blues over the water instead of a sun on the horizon. The white sand works as a natural reflector, so it stays usable well into blue hour.
ChapelRoofed, by the sea, a short walk from the ceremony beachesA roof over the ceremony decouples it from the sun entirely - controlled, low-contrast light no matter how hard the sky is outside. The walk out is short enough to step straight from the vows into the beach's open-shade window for family groupings and portraits.
GardenInland of the sand, in the resort's tropical plantingGreenery underfoot instead of sand, and no open water behind it, so it loses direct sun sooner than the shoreline does as the light drops behind the jungle and the buildings. Expect green fill bouncing off the exotic planting rather than the white-sand reflector you get on the shoreline.
JungleInland, enclosed by dense planting, no open waterThe most shaded of the four ceremony options. Dense planting overhead and all around means dappled, low light with the shortest usable daylight window on the property - once the sun is behind the treeline there is no bright horizon to hold it up.
PalapaThatched and open-sided, right by the seaCovered, so the ocean stays in view while faces sit out of direct sun. Once the sun is behind the property this becomes an ambient-lit room with a bright sea beyond it, and it is a few steps from the sand if you want to step out for blue-hour frames over the shallow turquoise water.