The Cruise Bride — by Cruise Crawler
A wedding that begins the moment the lines are cast off.
We plan cruise weddings, vow renewals and the travel around them — the sailing, the ceremony slot, the cabins your guests book, and the page that tells everyone where to be.
The Cruise Bride coordinates the sailing, the cabins and the guest travel. The cruise line runs its own wedding program where one is offered.
Tell us about your celebration
A cruise wedding specialist replies personally, usually within one business day.
Start here
There is more than one way to say we do.
Four ceremonies, four sets of trade-offs. Choosing between them is the first real decision, and everything else follows from it.
By the numbers
- $0
- What our planning costs you — the cruise lines pay us
- 00–00 mo
- Ideal lead time to hold a group of cabins together
- $0.0k–$0k
- Typical cruise-line ceremony package before reception
- 00+
- U.S. departure ports we book weddings out of
How we work
Three things we do that nobody else is doing for you.
Find the sailing that fits
Ceremony type and jurisdiction first, then the itinerary that reaches it on the right day, at a fare your guests can carry.
Hold the cabins together
A group block keeps your people near each other, spreads the deposits, and often earns amenities you can put toward the reception.
Carry the guests
Passports, documents, flights, pre-cruise hotels and one page that tells each guest exactly what to do and when. You should not be doing this.
Cruise lines
The ship sets the tone.
Price is close within a category; atmosphere is not. Choose the room you want to be standing in at seven in the evening.
Royal Caribbean
Large modern ships, wide venue choice and departures from most major US ports — the most common starting point for a first-time cruise wedding.
Carnival
The most affordable route to a ship wedding with a big guest list, especially dockside in a Gulf or Florida port.
Princess Cruises
The best-known route to a legally binding wedding at sea, on calmer ships with a more classic atmosphere.
Destinations
Where the ship takes you.
Some of these you can legally marry in on the day you arrive. Others are best kept symbolic. We will tell you which is which.
Departure ports
Most guests should be able to drive.
The port decides how much your guest list spends before they board. It is the most underrated decision in the whole plan.
- Miami, FloridaPortMiami
- Cape Canaveral, FloridaPort Canaveral
- Fort Lauderdale, FloridaPort Everglades
- Galveston, TexasPort of Galveston
- New Orleans, LouisianaPort of New Orleans
- Bayonne, New Jersey, New JerseyCape Liberty
- New York, New YorkManhattan Cruise Terminal
- Seattle, WashingtonPort of Seattle
- San Pedro, CaliforniaPort of Los Angeles
- Long Beach, CaliforniaLong Beach Cruise Terminal
- San Diego, CaliforniaPort of San Diego
- San Francisco, CaliforniaPort of San Francisco
Your guests
Most of them have never cruised. That is our job, not yours.
Guests contact us directly about cabins, passports, budgets and everything they are too embarrassed to ask you. Nothing gets relayed back to the wedding party.
What we handle for them
- Booking into the group block at the agreed rate
- Passports, documents and names that match
- Accessible cabins, dietary needs and medical questions
- Payment plans and realistic total-cost numbers
- Flights and the pre-cruise hotel night we insist on
Planning from
Wherever you are marrying from.
Nearest ports, guest travel and marriage licence basics for couples in every state.
Questions couples ask
Answers before you commit to anything
Nothing. We are compensated by the cruise lines when your group books, and your fares are the same or better than booking direct.
Sometimes. It depends on where the ceremony physically happens — the port's state, the destination country, or at sea under the ship's registry. Most couples marry symbolically and sign at home, which removes every complication.
Twelve to eighteen months with a group. The ceremony slot is rarely the constraint; keeping everyone's cabins together on a popular sailing is.
Yes, and they are the easiest thing we do — no licence, no jurisdiction, no paperwork. Anniversaries, renewals after an illness, or simply because you want to.