Congratulations too all of you brides, and for making the decision to be married on a
Disney Cruise. DH and I got married last June on the Wonder in the Mediterranean. We are 62 years young, and hadn't seen each other in 50 years, met again and fell in love. We had this cruise planned, but not the wedding. Fortunately no one else was getting married on the Med cruise (which was in one month from the call) and we arranged everything. It was the most wonderful day of my life! Second marriage, and more magical than ever imagined. We got married on deck 7 in the private area, which I think is now gone with the remodeling. All of the staff was so nice and so helpful. The rest of the cruisers made us feel like we were stars. Our photographer was a Disney photographer, but not one of the ones that takes the photos on the ship with characters. He took us all over the ship taking pictures which is why everyone knew us. It was a sea day. The dinner in Palo was just wonderful. All of our meals had the table decorated with flowers and more, we had a private table for 2 in the dining room. Of course we were chosen as the newly weds in the Match Your Mate game. Our photos are everywhere in our home. They are beautiful when you consider the venue. Moving ship, direct sun, sea with sunlight reflecting off it. We met some people on our cruise on facebook and they watched from the upper deck. It was wonderful. The pianist, the flowers, the cake, the gifts...it was perfect! I was fortunate to find an appropriate dress for someone my age, short sleeves, tea length, ivory with beading in one month! It was like it was just meant to be. My DH was my childhood sweetheart. I found all kinds of special things on Etsy. Had champagne glass charms made with our names, a handkerchief for him to carry that was embroidered with a message from me, special shirts (soul and mate with Mickey and Minnie on them), special magnets for our door...and people came by and decorated our door as a surprise! My wedding gift to my DH was from Etsy, a book with the cover the same color as the Mediterranean, and the pages were folded (not cute) so that when it was standing up it said, "Forever"...so beautiful! So many little things to make our day special. Enjoy your journeys as you plan your destination wedding. Disney does it the best for sure! (This was my 8th
DCL trip). Memories. And about 8 months later we were on a cruise on the Dream and the Assistant Cruise Director who performed the ceremony was on the ship and sent us a lovely note and a bottle of champagne!
Have you started a PJ at all? Also you must do a little mini TR on this board about the new magic I am dying to hear how it is!
in my Opinion I am not a huge fan of the Castway Cay weddings purely for the privacy! I had orginally been scheduled on Castway Cay but like your self I watched videos and it seemed like everyone was watching you and its right next to the family beach and some pictures I have seen have background people in them which I am not a fan of but i think Castway is purely a prefence choice you will still get amazing shoots just your photographer will have to be more crafty to avoid the people, what I am doing is married on the boat and then on the Castway Cay day right when we dock we will take pictures for an hour in full wedding ger and then we still have the whole day to enjoy Castway (which is the best port!) you can look at my PJ the link is in my signature I posted some pros and cons about it hope you start a PJ soon would love to follow along its a great way to get ideas
) and the engagment photos were so much I would really recommend all brides try to do some and whats the link for your PJ would love to follow along 
I had the worse luck going back and forth with dates waiting to come out, and then my wedding cruise orgianally was booked up all three spots first day nuts (it all worked out though 
