Our services · Flagged at first booking, confirmed before final payment
Accessibility and special needs planning
Accessible cabins, mobility logistics, dietary needs and medical requirements — arranged early, when the ship can still say yes.
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.
- When it happens
- Flagged at first booking, confirmed before final payment
- Cost to you
- Nothing — the lines pay us
- Who does the work
- Your planning specialist
- Included with
- Every wedding we plan
Cruise ships handle accessibility well — when they know early. Accessible cabins are a small, fixed inventory and the first to sell out. Mobility equipment, dialysis arrangements, oxygen, dietary kitchens for severe allergies: all standard, all bookable, all dependent on notice.
For a wedding group this matters more than usual because the guest list usually includes the oldest and youngest travellers on the ship. We collect requirements as part of the guest process — discreetly, directly with each guest — and log them against the booking with the line's special needs department.
The embarkation day plan is where it pays off. Wheelchair assistance at the terminal, priority boarding where needed, tender arrangements at ports without docks. Your grandmother boards the ship like a guest of honour, which is the point.
Planning timeline
A realistic timeline for a cruise wedding
Eighteen to twelve months out, the only decisions that matter are the ceremony type and the sailing. Everything else — florals, attire, the reception menu — is downstream of those two, and locking them early is what keeps the rest calm.
Twelve to eight months out we open the group block and take the first deposits. This is the step couples skip and later regret: once a popular sailing crosses about eighty per cent sold, keeping twenty guests on the same deck stops being possible at any price.
Eight to four months out, the cruise line's wedding department confirms the ceremony slot, the venue on the ship and the package inclusions. In parallel we chase every guest for a passport that is valid at least six months past the return date.
Inside ninety days, final payment falls due, the guest list stops changing, and we publish the single page that tells each guest their flight window, hotel night, boarding time and what to wear. From that point your job is the dress and the vows.
How it starts
One conversation covers all of it
You do not need to know which services you need. Tell us the date range, the guest count and the ceremony you have in mind, and the plan that comes back shows which of these pieces your wedding uses and when.
The form below is the whole beginning. No fee, no obligation, and a reply from a person rather than a mailing list.
The numbers couples ask for first
- $0.0k–$0k
- Typical cruise-line ceremony package, before the reception
- $000–$000
- Per guest, per night, inside cabin at double occupancy
- 00–00 mo
- Lead time we ask for when a group is coming with you
- $0
- What our planning costs you — the cruise lines pay us
Questions couples ask
Answers before you commit to anything
Modern ships are designed for it — accessible cabins, lifts, ramps and pool hoists. Tender ports, where small boats carry passengers ashore, are the main limitation and we plan around them.
The main dining room handles most allergies with notice; severe cases are logged with the line's culinary team before sailing. We collect the details from your guests directly.
Yes, with an accessible cabin or one that fits the scooter's dimensions — the door width is the constraint. We match the cabin to the equipment.
The rest of the work
Every other service, in the order it happens.
- Full cruise wedding planningOne specialist who runs the whole thing — ship, sailing, ceremony, cabins, guests and reception — at no cost to you.
- Group cabin blocksA held block of cabins at a locked group rate, so your guests book into the same price, the same decks and the same dinner.
- Ceremony coordination with the cruise lineWe book and manage the ceremony itself — the slot, the venue, the officiant, the licence — with the line's wedding department.
- Reception design at seaFrom a reserved section of the dining room to a private venue with an open bar — the reception formats that actually work on a ship.
- Photography and video at seaShip photographers, local port photographers, and the honest trade-offs of each — plus what the base packages actually include.
- Guest travel, flights and pre-cruise hotelsEvery guest arrives the day before, sleeps near the port, and boards calm — arranged for your whole list, not just you.
- Guest management and RSVPsEvery guest question answered, every cabin booked, every dietary need logged — without a single spreadsheet touching your inbox.
- Legal paperwork and licence guidanceWhich licence, from which authority, in which order, by when — for the port, the state or the foreign country you marry in.
- Payment plans and budgetsSmall deposits, monthly payments, and a final deadline months before sailing — how a whole guest list affords the trip.