Cahal Pech Mayan Ruin Wedding

Cahal Pech Maya Ruin was the wedding locale for Alfredo’s & Michelle’s Wedding in Belize. They wanted their union to be extra special and to represent their believes and ancestry. This is why they decided to get married on one of the oldest Maya Ruins in Belize.

Being both nature lovers, they fell in love with our country’s abundant wild life. They don’t call Belize, Mother Nature’s Best Kept Secret for nothing, Belize is full of wildlife and fauna and it is home to many Mayan Ruins. I can tell we will be having many more Maya Ruin Weddings in the years to come but especially this year since 2012 is the year of the Maya.

Here are some of the photos we took on Alfredo’s & Michelle’s special day. I hope you enjoyed this post and please remember to share on your favorite social network. You can also check out my Facebook page where I post daily updates of my work. Thanks 🙂

Entrance to Cahal Pech Maya Ruin.

Cahal Pech Maya Ruin Wedding – Mayan Weddings – San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize

Cahal Pech Mayan Ruin Wedding – Mayan Weddings – San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize

Cahal Pech Maya Ruin Wedding – Mayan Weddings – San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize

Cahal Pech Mayan Ruin Wedding – Mayan Weddings – San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize

Cahal Pech Mayan Ruin Wedding – Mayan Weddings – San Ignacio, Cayo, BelizeCahal Pech Mayan Ruin Wedding – Mayan Weddings – San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize

About Cahal Pech Mayan Ruins

Cahal Pech is a Maya site located near the Town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Belize. The site was a hilltop palacio home for an elite Maya family, and though most major construction dates to the Classic period, evidence of continuous habitation has been dated to as far back as far as 1200 BCE during the Early Middle Formative period (Early Middle Preclassic), making Cahal Pech one of the oldest recognizably Maya sites in Western Belize. The site rests high near the banks of the Macal River and is strategically located to overlook the confluence of the Macal River and the Mopan River. The site is a collection of 34 structures, with the tallest temple being about 25 meters in height, situated around a central acropolis. The site was abandoned in the 9th century CE for unknown reasons.

The name Cahal Pech, meaning “Place of the Ticks”, was given when this site was fallow during the first archaeological studies in the 1950s, led by Linton Satterthwaite from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. It is now an archaeological reserve, and houses a small museum with artifacts from various ongoing excavations.
The primary excavation of the site began in 1988. Restoration was completed in 2000 under the leadership of Dr. Jaime Awe, Director of the National Institute of Archaeology (NICH), Belize.
Other vicinity Mayan sites include Chaa Creek, and Xunantunich.
(Source, Wikipedia)