Our services · From the day you get engaged to the day you board
Full cruise wedding planning
One specialist who runs the whole thing — ship, sailing, ceremony, cabins, guests and reception — at no cost to you.
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
- From the day you get engaged to the day you board
- Cost to you
- Nothing — the lines pay us
- Who does the work
- Your planning specialist
- Included with
- Every wedding we plan
Full planning means you make the decisions and we do everything else. We narrow two hundred possible sailings to the three that fit your guest list, your budget and your dates; we hold the cabin block; we coordinate the ceremony with the cruise line's wedding department; we answer every guest's questions so you never field a text about passports.
The service costs you nothing. Cruise lines pay travel partners a commission on the fares that were going to be booked anyway, so our fee is built into a price you would pay regardless. What changes is that someone whose entire job is cruise weddings is watching the deadlines, the inventory and the details.
Most couples we work with have one call a month and a short email when a decision is needed. The planning takes twelve to eighteen months on the calendar and a few hours of your actual time.
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
Cruise fares include a commission whether you use a specialist or book direct. Using us routes that commission to someone who works for you instead of a call centre.
Twelve to eighteen months before you want to sail. Popular ships and wedding slots are the first things to fill, and cabin blocks are easiest to hold early.
Often, yes. If the booking is recent it can usually be transferred to us, and we pick up the ceremony and group work from there.
The rest of the work
Every other service, in the order it happens.
- 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.
- Accessibility and special needs planningAccessible cabins, mobility logistics, dietary needs and medical requirements — arranged early, when the ship can still say yes.
- Payment plans and budgetsSmall deposits, monthly payments, and a final deadline months before sailing — how a whole guest list affords the trip.