Disney Cruise Weddings

[bookworm74]

Thanks for all of the information it has been such a huge help! Do you know if the wedding location on Castaway Cay is decorated or do we need to provide decorations? What few pics I've seen of weddings at Castaway Cay there seem to be some decorations along the railings.

 

[Moonbeams]

The DFTW site shows white fabric draped around the deck rails. If you want that, you have to bring it with you and ask the concierge on board to put it up for you before the ceremony. Otherwise, the railings have fishing net strewn around to go with the whole beachy feeling of the island. The ceremony is held on the deck off of Heads Up bar (but previous DCL brides have assured me it won't look like a bar at that time because it is all boarded up).

Justmestace put up pommanders (balls of flowers) hanging off the fishing net. You can PM her and ask to have photos of her daughter's wedding emailed to you. I think Hebejebe chose not to decorate, but you can PM her and ask her for certain.

At first I was thinking I wanted to decorate the area, but the more we get into planning our cruise wedding, the more I think we're just going to leave it rather than dragging one more thing on board with us.

Hope this helps!

Jennifer

 

[Skylarr29]

Hi guys I just wanted to add to this thread that you also can have an MK bridal portrait session since you are still a disney fairy tale wedding. I contacted stephanie sharpe personally and she yes as long as it is after the wedding, so we are now planning on castaway cay and then when we get to our land portion doing the shoot.

 

[Skylarr29]

Hi guys I just wanted to add to this thread that you also can have an MK bridal portrait session since you are still a disney fairy tale wedding. I contacted stephanie sharpe personally and she yes as long as it is after the wedding, so we are now planning on castaway cay and then when we get to our land portion doing the shoot.

 

[Blythep]

Hubby and I will be on a 3-day cruise September 06. My question is can we add a Vow Renweal as an "add-on"? If so, what is included, cake? Can we wear tropical attire? It will be just the two of us - any idea on $$$? It will be our 19th wedding anniversary. We will be in WDW for 4 days before and maybe 2 days after, depending on MNSSHP. Thanks for the info.

 

[Moonbeams]

Hubby and I will be on a 3-day cruise September 06. My question is can we add a Vow Renweal as an "add-on"? If so, what is included, cake? Can we wear tropical attire? It will be just the two of us - any idea on $$$? It will be our 19th wedding anniversary. We will be in WDW for 4 days before and maybe 2 days after, depending on MNSSHP. Thanks for the info.

Check out http://disneyweddings.go.com/site/wed/cru/start/index.jsp for info on Disney Cruise Line weddings and vow renewals. On that site is a list of what you get for your flat fee: ceremony, cake & champagne, bouquet, boutonniere, music, dinner for two at Palo's, etc. They quoted me $2999 for a Feb 2006 wedding. Not sure if the cost fluxuates throughout the year. The wedding/vr is on top of the cost for your stateroom. If your cruise is already booked, call Disney Fairy Tale Weddings and see if the date you want on Castaway Cay is available. They do one CC wedding and two on-board weddings per cruise. If booking Castaway Cay is more important and you'll book your cruise around it, then call DFTW first (phone # is on the DFTW site) and see if they will hold a date for you, then call DCL to book your stateroom. You can wear whatever you want since it's your day!

Jennifer

 

[dznybound]

Yes, you can definately have a Magic Kingdom Photo Session after your DCL Wedding @ Castaway Cay. My husband and I did that when we got married in the summer of 2002. Make sure you bring your bouquet with you off the ship. This was a nervous point for us because all the signs and info states you can not bring flowers off the ship. I hand carried my bouquet off the ship..ask the agriculture inspector very nicely and he informed me that since it was fresh cut flowers, it was okay. Hope this works for all of you trying take your bouquet off the ship.

We did our Magic Kingdom photo session 2 days after we got off the ship. In fact, since we were going to be all dressed up in our wedding attire, we hired Randy Chapman to do a photo session with us at the Dolphin resort after our early morning photo session at Magic Kingdom.

We have some awesome pictures since we technically had three different photographers!!

 

[Moonbeams]

DZNYBound --

I am so glad you said that re: three photographers as that is what I think I want to do, too!! We'll have the photos from the Castaway Cay ceremony, Palo's reception and other photos from the ship. Then, the MK photo session would be great as I want a shot of us on the carousel and my DH2B would love photos of us in the castle, and I really want some Randy Chapman-esque B&W shots of us walking around the Grand Floridian holding hands and walking on the beach, etc. But the one main thing I really, really want is the photo of the two of us in the arch at the Wedding Pavilion with the castle lit up behind. If we don't have a WP wedding, do you think they'll let us have a photo taken there? Did you do that, and if so did Randy take it or Disney?

Did you have Disney cosmo do your hair and makeup for the MK session? Where were you staying on property?

I'm so glad you recounted your bouquet experience as that is a concern of mine. I guess I'll have to be extra sweet, and get my DH2B to use his strong Southern accent and "aw shucks" manners (which can work wonders in tight situations), to get my bouquet off board.

What about the top layer of your cake? Did Disney pack it up for you and were you able to get it through customs?

Thanks for the info!!

Jennifer

 

[PixyDusted]

You're right - it's very hard to find DCL brides and wedding stories! Thanks for posting this. I'm getting married May 2nd,
09 at Castaway Cay! I eat up any info and experience I can get.

 

[bookworm74]

First of all, congrats!

I wanted to give you a couple of tips before your wedding cruise. My husband and I had a wonderful time but there were a couple of hiccups the day of the ceremony (1-20-06). We learned a very important lesson when getting married on a cruise ship... always, ALWAYS have a backup for EVERYTHING!

As part of the wedding package they will press your dress and your husband-to-be's suit. Be sure that when everything is returned, you actually have everything. Somehow, my hubby's suit pants went missing from the Laundry. Luckily he had another pair of nice pants to wear (and I even had a backup dress from the civil ceremony if anything had happened in that department).

Also, you might want to make sure to have a spare bouquet (I had made a silk arrangement for the civil ceremony in the terminal). I had chosen the rose bouquet, boutineres(?) and corsages and they were beautiful. The only problem is that since we were married on the final full day of the cruise, the flowers were a week old by this point and one of the corsages and one of the boutineres fell to bits.

Don't think everything was all doom and gloom - the photographer was amazing and took fabulous pictures. Be prepared to go through the pictures quickly at the end of the day in order to get all of your enlargements requests back to the Shutters crew! I had about an hour to go through 350 pictures and pick out my six favorites for enlargements.

I loved our reception at Palo's - as part of your package you have dinner there that evening. When we did the galley tour we actually got the see the pastry chef making our cake! We had a wedding group of 14 so my DH and I had everyone come to dinner for our wedding dinner. We had the captain's room at Palo's - very nice!

Pre-wedding I went up the salon to get my hair done - I wouldn't suggest anything elaborate - it's usually pretty windy! That being said, I also would suggest if you are going to do a veil, stick to something not too full since the veil will attack!

If you have any other questions I'll be happy to help. Things may have changed in the two and a half years since I got married but probably not too much. Oh, and if they haven't changed the location of the wedding ceremony on Castaway Cay it is at the patio area of the Head's Up bar - it has a nice overlook of the ship.

Dorie