UPDATE Vow Renewal/Wedding questions

[barney4liz]

Update: We booked the package! Would love to hear from others with experience as to how everything worked regarding the early booking window for onboard activities and how you picked your ceremony date/time relative to the itinerary. We are on a 5-night with a day at sea, Lookout Point, Nassau, and Castaway Cay. I’m thinking we’d like to have the ceremony on the first day, our day at sea.

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We are cruising for our 35th anniversary in May 2025, and we want to book a vow renewal. I have submitted a request for info to Disney Fairytale Weddings and am waiting to hear back, and I am aware of the $4000 package minimum. It’s a lot of $$ for our small family group of 4, but my husband and I were almost killed in a car accident earlier this year and I need a big splurge.

Does anyone know how likely it is that we can still book this? Any tips/advice? I am thinking we would use the Deck 10 aft deck, which is one of the offered venues.

 

[CamColt]

I don't have an answer as to how likely it is, but wanted to say say Congratulations on 35 years! It sounds like you deserve a special celebration!

As a side note, my son got "married" (ceremonial, as all DCL weddings are) at Castaway Cay about 6 months ago. It was a beautiful venue for a wedding, as I'm sure all DCL's options are. The coordinators on board were awesome! They really put together an amazing experience.

 

[barney4liz]

Thank you! And congratulations, that’s sounds wonderful!

 

[starry_solo]

I know when my friend was planning a wedding on DCL in September 2020, which ended up being canceled due to COVID, I think the earliest she was able to actually have someone reach out was 6 months before. I remember thinking, really? That's the earliest they will reach out?! But yup, that's what it was. And, by then it was already not looking good so I don't think they actually ended up reaching out at that point.

It started out as 10-12 people attending and then slowly, people dropped out and it was going to end up with just 4 of us (the happy couple, me [her BFF] and my sibling) and then, of course, COVID canceled the cruise.