Top Five Cruise Wedding Packages

With the average traditional wedding now costing between $25,000 and $30,000 USD, many couples are opting for more intimate, more romantic, less stressful and less expensive cruise wedding packages that are increasingly popular as "weddingmoons" aboard many of the most popular cruise lines. Here are our top five cruise wedding packages:

1. Caribbean Princess Cruise

Sail for seven days in the Eastern Caribbean, combining a beautiful wedding and honeymoon package. The cruise, depending on which date you sail and which cabin class you book, begins at $799 (not including taxes and fees). The wedding will be onboard, at sea in the ship’s chapel where the captain will officiate. The Caribbean Princess includes a live webcam broadcast so your friends and family back home can watch your "I do’s." The cost is $2250 and includes:

• A Candle-lit Ceremony in the Ship’s Chapel
• Two Beautiful Floral Arrangements
• Captain to Perform Ceremony
• Wedding Coordinator
• Live Piano Music
• Bride’s Rose Bouquet
• Boutonniere for the Groom
• Keepsake Wedding Album
• Photographer with 2 8×10 and 5 5×7 Photographs
• Wedding Cake for Two and Special Chandon Champagne Toast
• Two Princess Champagne Flutes
• Keepsake Wedding Certificate

2. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines

The two of you, along with your photographer and wedding officiant take a helicopter flight to the top of one of the glaciers for a fantastic view and the memory of a lifetime. Then sail for a seven-day honeymoon on the Radiance of the Sea. Say your "I do’s" from May to September. The wedding package starts at $4595 and includes:

• Ground transportation to the helicopter pad
• Helicopter ride for four people
• A wild flower bouquet for the bride
• A boutonniere for the groom
• Keepsake Wedding marriage certificate
• Wedding cake for the bridal couple
• Strawberries and sparkling wine served back onboard ship
• Professional photography service

If you’re not interested in the glacier package, then pick from one of several other options that are offered by the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (Prices start from $2595):

• In an exotic rainforest
• Helicopter ride for four people
• Traditional or a themed wedding
• Sailing on a catamaran
• While riding in a hot-air balloon
• In a European castle or vineyard
• Beach or horseback riding venues

3. Carnival Conquest

Leaving New Orleans, the Conquest stops at Montego Bay, Grand Cayman and Cozumel, Mexico. All of the Carnival ships offer four various types of wedding packages, ranging in price from $1,000 to $2,000 in addition to the cruise fare. All ceremonies include the following:):

• Ceremony performed by a non-denominational officiant
• Bridal bouquet with matching boutonniere for the groom
• Sparkling wine & keepsake champagne flutes
• Sailing on a catamaran
• Wedding cake with keepsake topper
• Cake cutting service and champagne toast
• Wedding March music and photography service

4. Windstar Wedding Cruise

Porthole Magazine voted this the "Most Romantic Cruise line" and Windstar is rated "World’s #1 Cruise Line" by Conde Nast Traveller, Windstar cruises should be a top consideration for your wedding, honeymoon and anniversary celebrations. The Windstar fleet includes three luxurious sailing ships which provide a romantic backdrop of seas and sails for your destination cruise wedding. The bride and groom can tie the knot high above the flying bridge, either in a private ceremony or celebrating with their friends and family. Nothing is quite as romantic as getting married under sails; however, Windstar offers shore side options as well. Choose the grape-covered hills of Tuscany, saying your vows in a romantic country-side villa or choose a private beach somewhere in the Caribbean. Windstar can even arrange a wedding in the Vatican. Whichever venue you choose, you will likely be swept off your feet. The average cost for Windstar weddings is $2,000 which includes up to 10 guests.

5. Disney 7-Day Land & Cruise Package

Choose a three or four-day land package coupled with a three or four-day Bahamas Cruise package for your wedding and honeymoon. How romantic! Choose to say your vows either on board or on Castaway Cay, Disney’s private island among sandy white beaches, turquoise waters and under swaying palm trees. As your guests help you celebrate this special event, you’ll feel like royalty. This cruise wedding package includes unlimited admission to the entire Disney World complex as well as unlimited use of their transportation system. Disney’s wedding package is in addition to your regular land/see cruise fare. The onboard wedding costs $1900 and if you choose to be married on Castaway Cay, you will pay $2900.

With all of the cruise wedding packages, you will be provided with the services of an onboard wedding coordinator who has an incredible amount of experience and can help you enjoy a romantic, stress-free wedding – either just the two of you or together with your closest friends and family.

I am a semi-retired mother of two and grandmother of two. When my daughter asked me to help her research destination and cruise wedding packages for her second marriage, I jumped at the opportunity. After nearly a year of research, I have written an ebook titled "Destination and Cruise Ship Weddings: Easy as 1-2-3."

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