Twinklez123

7 hours ago, 6rugrats said:

Why did you pull up a seven year old thread?

 

You never heard from the coordinator until a few hours before the wedding?  Very strange.  Why didn’t you contact them long before that?

 

You don’t have to get married at port on many cruises.  I don’t know if an at sea wedding was possible for your daughter’s cruise.  There’s lots of information in their wedding brochure.  Cruise weddings require lots of follow up, unfortunately.  

Why did I pull up a seven year old thread???  Why do you ask; is there something wrong with that?  I pulled it up because I searched for topics that related to RC cruise weddings in hope of getting useful information.  In doing so one of the things I discovered is how often RC Weddings changes their packages and rules over the years.  Their current brochure is even different than what we pulled up when we started this wedding journey 10 months ago.  

Why didn't we contact them sooner?  Hope you aren't doubting the validity of my statement.  There is a difference between the wedding planner and the wedding coordinator.  My daughter worked on and off with the planner over the course of 10 months via emails and questionaires and a phone call.  The planner was a little unresponsive at times until we persisted.  Now the coordinator was the person we were supposed to work with on the cruise.  The wedding was to take place the 2nd day of the cruise. We did try to contact her the first day because some guests did not receive their goodie bags in their rooms as pre-arranged.  Don't know if that was resolved by the coordinator or guest services, but she herself finally talked to my daughter the morning of the wedding and then again when the wedding party discovered no setup at 3 pm (one hour before the wedding).  She called again at 3:55 as we were in route to the venue to tell my daughter how to get there without being seen.  Almost too late with that info.  Every time we spoke to her, she ignored anything friendly or positive we tried to say and just became defensive about any problems we brought up. My daughter tries too hard to please everyone.  Maybe she should have been bitchier like some of the people in this thread are.  

Yes, cruise weddings (or any wedding) requires lots of followup.  I agree and we made it a point to follow up on as much as we could.

My response to you is, why do you have 10,000 posts on this forum?  Do you work for Cruise Critic or a cruise line?  Do you get some credit for an abundance of posts?

My daughter just got married onboard the Rhapsody of the Sea.  They told her they had to be at a port to do the ceremony onboard.  Who knows if that's true or not since the whole thing turned out to be a disorganized mess.  We (I) paid a lot of money for one of their wedding packages and didn't get much for it at all.  No pre-planning or contact by wedding coordinator until a few hours before the scheduled time.  Nothing was setup until some of the wedding party got there early.  It was in the Crown and Anchor lounge with several groups of strangers milling about even in the background of the podium during the service.  The officiant was the wedding coordinator and, of course she botched the name of the groom and laughed when she couldn't pronounce the bride's last name.  I'm coaxing my daughter to let RC Weddings know how disappointing it was.  Luckily, she was glowingly beautiful and the groom and bridesmaids were fun, energetic people who smoothed things over and the wedding photographer was awesome.  Now, anybody know the best way to notify the Royal Wedding division?