kobezwife

I also ordered lanyards online from Walmart. They have regular black clip ones (similar to the above link)-- a box of 24 for $10.

Hope that helps- happy gift bag building! :)

Your bags look AWWWWWWWESOME! Great job!

I would love to see a review of your wedding, too, by the way!

Can you give us a little advice on how you got so much stuff for free at Vistaprint? I have seen free giveaways for ONE of each type of item but never for 40 of them! I am having about the same amount of people at my wedding and, from what I've seen I can get each item "free" for each person, but I'd have to pay about $15-$20 in shipping each time (so I can order them free over and over again and keep paying shipping)- which would be about $600-$800!!!! (yikes)

Just wondering if that is what you meant when you said you ordered them free LOL :)

You had to have spent sooo much money getting these together! But everything came out GREAT-- I love it!!!

RedkenMeCrazy,

I've had a ton of luck typing in "Orange Hill wedding" into the search menu (upper right hand corner). There are some pretty recent ones and have some very good information. Of course, I always felt like I needed a little more LOL, but hopefully they help you. I am also still in the planning stages although we're just a few months away, so I'd be happy to give you any info I can as well. Good luck in your planning; I know how frustrating or intimidating this can be :)

I'm getting married on the Ecstasy on 9/2/13 in Nassau. So excited! 6 months to go!

Gotta be honest, though, all of these mishaps with the ships are rattling my guests a bit. Sigh! LOL

This is the exact reason we decided to get married on the Paradise leaving from Tampa instead. I want a destination wedding and not an embarkation wedding, so we are getting married when we are in port in Grand Cayman as they do not have a time frame that you have to wait before getting married. The entire package costs $2,225 and it is only $350 extra to have The Wedding Experience get the marriage license for us.

 

And for those who are saying that we could miss port, yes that can happen. Anything can happen like a fire in the engine room on the Triumph. But you plan for the best and when the worse happens you just say, oh well and move on. I don't want to get married before the ship leaves and then have a 'symbolic' ceremony on Grand Cayman. Just not the same.

 

Good luck to the OP, and don't worry about naysayers. You have the wedding you want and have fun!

When is your wedding date? I'm so excited for you!

Great suggestions! It's a stupid decision to have to make but paying thousands more is just silly to me...

Well, good news!

I contacted Carnival weddings and they go through Royal Ocean events. They said that we would NOT have to visit the registrars office on our wedding day if we go through them! The only problem is they charge basically DOUBLE what the other company that I wanted to use does. Sigh. :)

So now I have to choose between paying several thousand dollars more to enjoy my wedding day VS. saving several thousand dollars and spending the morning of my wedding in a bahamian office. LOL

Oh, the joys of wedding planning.... :)

Hello everyone! HELP HELP HELP!!!

I am hoping SOMEONE can help me understand this process. I have been freaking out all day (and the weddings department is closed). I am going on the Carnival Ecstasy this September to get married while we are in the port of Nassau, the Bahamas. I was planning on having the ceremony planned by independent wedding planners on the island to have more control over the details and then have a Carnival reception back on the ship. Luckily, no major plans or deposits have been made. I was JUST told by the minister that it is required for me to go down to The Registrar's Office in Nassau, in person, once I have been in Bahamian waters for 24 hours. For me, that means I would need to go there on MY WEDDING DAY.

I am distraught. I did not want to see my fiance on our wedding day until I was coming down the aisle. Now, I am worried that we will be rushed and my day will be stressful (i.e. RUINED), instead of the beautiful, relaxing day I thought it would be, We dock in Nassau at 8am and we would have to go to this registrar place and be at the mercy of their speed. Then, we'd have to get over to our ceremony site on our own, since I was planning to arrange charter busses to pick up our guests. I am just so upset and dont know what else to do. When I was planning my wedding through Carnival, they said they could take care of this for me and never mentioned going anywhere on our wedding day.

I am wondering: does Carnival have other connections where they can bypass this rule, or was it just something they neglected to mention about the process? Are there any brides here who have been to the office on their wedding day?

When I look it up online I find nothing but horror stories about how long it took there and what a waste of time it was. I am frustrated because I really dont want to have to get a marriage license in my home state before or after the cruise (what is the point of picking a wedding date, then??) and I don't want to go to that office and potentially be delayed for my own wedding! This is so stressful, does anyone have any advice or insight?

PS> I am already really stressed about this, so PLEEEEASE dont say things like "whats the big deal" or "get over it". I really would just like to hear from brides who have experienced this and their solutions/decisions or any information someone may have about going through Carnival for the paperwork/process. Thanks in advance. :)