Anyone have any experience with this?

7/8/2007 9:54:01 PM

i will try to make my lounge responses more appropriate next time

[Edited on July 8, 2007 at 10:03 PM. Reason : woops ]

7/8/2007 9:56:31 PM

it seems like that would cost like an arm, leg, and a reproductive organ

just get married in a church, then go on a cruise for the honeymoon

7/8/2007 10:07:08 PM

i would think this would be annoying as well with all of the other people on the ship.

7/8/2007 10:08:58 PM

one of my uncles did it - most ships have a small sanctuary - they do the ceremony while still docked (i think they have to for it to be legal) - as you can imagine the other people on the ship are not involved with it and most of them never know it happens

the downside is that unless your family is going on the cruise too (who wants family to come on the honeymoon?!?!?) then they only people that will really be there are the 2 of you - at that point you might as well do it a church and keep it small or do it at the court house

7/8/2007 10:12:28 PM

Carnival's private island has a wedding chapel on it, that could be an option.

7/8/2007 10:13:53 PM

why would you have to be docked for it to be legal?

7/8/2007 10:13:55 PM

I don;t know why, but yeah you have to be docked. As far as cost, it doesn't seem that bad

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"There are three possible options. The three Princess wedding packages offered include the "Diamond Package" for $2400, their most expensive option. You get a candlelit ceremony with flower arrangements and a string quartet, an orchid bouquet and boutonniere, a photographer (some prints are included), and a ceremony video. Before the wedding, the bride receives a facial and professional hair styling in the onboard salon; after the ceremony, the couple gets champagne with toasting glasses, wedding cake, and a lithograph painting of the ship. "

Princess Cruise line one of their package

7/8/2007 10:16:24 PM

google - wedding cruise ship legal - first hit

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"Q. Does the wedding take place while the ship is sailing? A. Usually not. The majority of the on board weddings take place while the ship is in port. This allows friends and family members that are not sailing to join in the ceremony. Most locations also require the ship to be docked to hold a legal ceremony."

7/8/2007 10:17:09 PM

what is this goggle you speak of?

7/8/2007 10:30:38 PM

There's such thing as an illegal wedding between two consenting adults?

7/8/2007 11:25:16 PM

Probably because the ceremony needs to take place in a state of ____ to be legally binding - If they're floating around somewhere on the sea it likely gets sticky about what state/country under which the couple would be pronounced as married... Just my guess

7/9/2007 1:39:44 AM

This is some redneck white trash stuff!

[Edited on July 9, 2007 at 2:08 AM. Reason : .]

7/9/2007 2:08:40 AM

apparently Princess Cruise Lines will marry you at sea

7/9/2007 7:28:37 AM

REDNECK!


^haha Im not alone on this one

[Edited on July 9, 2007 at 7:30 AM. Reason : ^^]

7/9/2007 7:29:31 AM

This is some redneck white trash stuff!

7/9/2007 9:06:11 AM

someone got married on the cruise ship (royal caribbean) we were on for our honeymoon.

i didnt see or notice anything different. it was pretty discrete.

[Edited on July 9, 2007 at 9:09 AM. Reason : d]

7/9/2007 9:09:31 AM

I don't see whats redneck about this

7/9/2007 9:20:08 AM

yeah, i was gonna say, this just seems trashy to me.

7/9/2007 9:45:31 AM

I took a cruise to the Bahamas and got married on Nassau. It was really nice but the wind was blowing like hell on the beach.

7/9/2007 10:27:06 AM

why is anything out of the norm considered "trashy"? I probably won't have a wedding on a cruise ship, but I see nothing wrong with it.

7/9/2007 10:30:39 AM

it's not trashy because it's "out of the norm". It's because there is nothing special or meaningful about a cruise ship. You really want to remember your wedding as being on a gigantic boat with 2000 strangers, in a small chapel with fake stained glass windows, wedged between and all-you-can-eat all-night buffet full of drunk spring-breakers and a wave pool with middle-aged parents getting baked in the sun while their brat kids run around the pool deck?

7/9/2007 11:15:32 AM

have you ever been on a cruise? I've been on 4, and I've enjoyed ever single one of them. If you want a quiet romantic experience on a boat, then its very easy to have it.

[Edited on July 9, 2007 at 11:18 AM. Reason : a]

7/9/2007 11:16:59 AM

Quote :

"You really want to remember your wedding as being on a gigantic boat with 2000 strangers, in a small chapel with fake stained glass windows, wedged between and all-you-can-eat all-night buffet full of drunk spring-breakers and a wave pool with middle-aged parents getting baked in the sun while their brat kids run around the pool deck?"

As opposed to what? Pay $texas for an outdoor wedding at a nice garden with a formal reception following that will be a hassle to plan and organize? Pay less but have to join a church, maybe not a desirable one, and have a all-you-can-eat buffet afterwards (which in my experience have never been as good as a cruise ships food) with all the tacky decorations.

I think a cruise ship would be a fine idea, tho personally I'd rather do it on an island.

7/9/2007 2:26:19 PM

You need to do it on the QE2.

Then split up.

And years later send your twins to the same summer camp.

7/9/2007 2:39:00 PM

^^ It costs a bit more but alot of ships will take you to a private beach on an island and marry you there

7/9/2007 3:00:44 PM

if you dont understand why this is redneck as hell I think you should do some inner soul searching.

7/16/2007 8:14:00 AM

It would save you a lot of money. Thats why destination weddings are so popular now, you save a third of what you would pay on a wedding in the US. The average US wedding costs $20,000.

7/16/2007 8:23:36 AM

thats if you invite everyone you've ever met in your life and feed them free beer all night.

7/16/2007 8:36:38 AM

not true. we only had 150 people at ours, and it was quite a bit more that 20k.

7/16/2007 8:37:30 AM

I personally life the idea

7/16/2007 8:40:05 AM

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"thats if you invite everyone you've ever met in your life and feed them free beer all night."

we had about 200 and ours was in that range - skimp where you can but things add up quickly

7/16/2007 8:44:48 AM

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"i would think this would be annoying as well with all of the other people on the ship."

7/16/2007 2:12:31 PM

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"Before the wedding, the bride receives a facial"

My kind of wedding

Had friends get married on a cruise ship back in april. they loved it. Course they had about 15 other people with em as well.

7/17/2007 3:28:30 PM

Its not like your with the rest of the boat, they have a big area for you and wedding guests only during the wedding and the reception

7/17/2007 4:53:29 PM

Why not find a very small romantic exclusive resort in central america or caribean?



[Edited on July 17, 2007 at 7:11 PM. Reason : I love the carribean by sea, but I was on a private sailboat--fuck if i'd go on a cruiseliner]

[Edited on July 17, 2007 at 7:32 PM. Reason : ]

7/17/2007 7:09:17 PM

sounds trashy to me.

7/17/2007 7:23:25 PM