Castaway Cay wedding/VR ?s - Got pictures of enhancements!

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For any brides who have already had a ceremony on CC, what were the available enhancements? I am particularly interested in the beach ceremony enhancements but would love to see or hear about anything.

The only thing I know about so far is something that looks I think like tiki torches with some flowers at the top.

Thanks!!!
 
Oh good-I hope someone replies! I was just looking for the info on the website by suggestion & maybe they will have some answers for me too!!
 
:confused3 I haven't seen any kind of enhancements or options available for the beach ceremony. I'm trying to figure out what the table will look like that holds the Sand Ceremony! :confused3
 
I think we should put together a huge list of everyones cruise questions - send it to cathy and post the response...

She emailed me 3 pics and said we could talk about enhancements. I wrote back and asked when we could expect to sit down and talk about all of the options and never heard back about that - and it was a long time ago.

Lets put it this way can any cruise brides just post pictures of everything for us?????? PLLLLEEEAASE!!!
 

I'm not going to be of any help because there weren't any enhancement options almost 5 years ago.
 
From what I understand a Cruise Line Wedding be it on the ship or Castaway is pretty cut and dry. You don't get to choose alot of things doing it this way. Yes I have seen Brides post who have added color to their cakes, you get to pick from a few different styles for your floral, you can get floral delivered from an outside vendor. You CAN do a Sand Ceremony but the Captain will not do it you do it on your own.

My DD is doing her wedding on the Ship in November 2009. Here are some of the things we are either doing for sure or are in the works as far as I know.

1. I am going to order her flowers from an outside vendor, she wanted Hydrengas and they were not offered on the ship.

2. She has found a Photographer who is willing to do her Pictures, DD is paying for a stateroom for the photographer and a guest.

3. She asked if she could have color added to her cake (thanks DisneyDMBNut got the idea from you)

4. She is getting married on Deck 7 and her Fiancees mom will have just finished up Chemo so she asked that they be able to move the cake somewhere inside, and Cathy said she would place that request but it CANNOT be in Palo because of dinners and so on going on there and DD is fine with that.

5. They are thinking of the private room at Palo for dinner the evening of the Wedding (still in the works because they are not sure of how many people will be attending)

6. She asked if there was a way we could bring something else to use instead of the white bows that decorate the deck....Cathy was suppose to email the dimensions of the railings because everything must be able to velcro on. Also still in the works (thinking of what we could do that would hold up against the wind and so on)

7. She is making Welcome Bags for the guests just not sure if she will be shipping a box ahead of time or trying to pack or carry on the items to go into them.

I think that is about it for now that I am sure of. She catches me up when we catch eachother on the phone since she is in Dallas and I am here in Pennsylvania.

I dunno I guess if you want more control or more frills maybe a Wishes Wedding at Walt Disney World is the way for you to go. I guess that I was under the impression that a Cruise Wedding was suppose to be easier, less comotion, and a bit more laid back....am I so wrong??
 
Ok I just looked to see if I still had them in my email - I don't:sad2: but a while ago cathy sent me three pictures of what the current beach set up looked like. One of them had a bunch of tiki torch things and she mentioned that they were enhancements and that we could talk about all of the options.

I guess I am just impatient and figured that anyone doing a beach ceremony would be offered the same thing.

I was hoping to see what they were without having to wait to meet with cathy.

I guess there are no other beach ceremony people out there...?

Belle16127 all of your daughters plans sound great and very exciting I can't wait to here more!
 
i think there are many beach ceremonies, but i have never seen enhancements (never even thought about the decorations except in Palo where I did my own)
 
i'm doing a beach ceremony too, and Cathy never said anythign to me about enhancements. I know of 2 other beach VR ceremony's, they didn't have any tiki torches either.:confused3
 
We got married on the beach in November and were not offered any thing extra. I did ask about rose petals for the aisle way and Cathy said it was possible. We opted out and glad we did, it was so windy that day it would hav ebeen a waste of money.

In my honest opinion you have the decoration of the water, the plam trees the sand....Nothing else is really needed!
 
Cathy just emailed me with the pictures I was talking about before that have the tiki torch type things. I didn't know if anyone knew more about them or what the other floral enhancement choices are?

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ack! Tiny pictures! can someone make them bigger??
 
They are big on my computer, just small when I put them in the post... I don't know how to make them bigger... Can you either lead me through it or can I just email them to you and ask you to do it?
 
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I think these are old stock pictures from when DCL first started doing weddings..I don't think I have seen those in real weddings ever.
They might have become broken/aged and unable to replace them. I didn't even see that floral option in the packet
 
oh..I can tell that is from when CC was new..look how small the mangrove is over to the right and the palm trees look yellow from shock..the dock near the boat looks like there is small trees
 
How did you get it big?????

Even if they are old stock photos I kind of like the tiki torches (even if they are just bamboo with flowers).

This is what I got in the email -
Please find attached photographs of the current beach location that we
use. It is a beautiful spot. The photographs do show some floral
enhancements that these couples chose to add. If you wish to add any
decorations, you will be able to order additional floral items.

So the additional stuff I guess is what I am curious about.
 
hmm..that is interesting
Wonder how they do that..I just pulled out my contract again and they don't show any extra floral for decorations..I ordered my own floral for Palo because they didn't have anything to show me and had no one on the ship that could arrange the floral
 
the rose petals on the ground might be kind of nice......
 
it is pretty windy over on that spot (which is like a peninsula)especially in January..I didn't use rose petals for that reason
 












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