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A luxury cruise ship is a fun and exciting location for your memorable wedding ceremony. Shipboard weddings allow you to combine your ceremony and reception with a cruise honeymoon, and offer the option of your family and friends joining you on the vacation (If you want them to!).

With packages available in over 100 beautiful ports of call, you can choose a destination perfect for you and your guests. Couples are choosing cruise ship wedding packages over the traditional hometown wedding in greater numbers today than ever before. Cruise weddings allow you to plan a beautiful wedding at a fraction of the cost of a traditional land wedding. Plus, you can leave all the planning to The Wedding Experience and the ship's staff.

You just let us know what you are envisioning for your wedding, and when you arrive for your cruise, the wedding details have been all taken care of! Thousands of couples are married aboard cruise ships each year and that number is growing with the popularity of the cruise vacation experience.

Cruise weddings take place while the ship is in port, and couples can choose have their wedding onboard the ship, or at a land location. You can be married in a shipboard chapel while the ship is docked in the Port of Miami, on a world-renowned beach in St. Thomas, USVI, on a rooftop garden in Italy, or even fly by helicopter to be married on an Alaskan glacier! You are welcome to invite your guests to join you on the cruise, or invite them to board for the day as a non-sailing guest to celebrate your wedding.

Together from the ground up, Managing Director, Barbara Whitehill, a cruise industry veteran, and Executive Director, Skip Alligood, have built a strong and respected company within the wedding and cruise line industries.

Let the professionals at The Wedding Experience cater to your individual needs and make your wedding day the best day of your life. Our team boasts many years of experience in the cruise line and wedding industry and has performed thousands of weddings throughout the world.

Call today for your free consultation and speak with one of our trained professionals. They will provide you with tips to plan your ultimate cruise wedding experience.

The Wedding Experience is the exclusive wedding service provider for Celebrity Cruise Line, Crystal Cruises, MSC Cruises, as well as select ports for Carnival Cruise Line. For further information, please contact us.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the starting price for day-of wedding coordination?

$1,200

What is the starting price for partial wedding planning?

$1,200

What is the starting price for full wedding planning?

$1,600

Do you offer an hourly rate?

No

What wedding events do you provide services for?

Ceremony
Reception
Rehearsal Dinner

What wedding planning services do you offer?

Full Planning

What weddings do you have experience planning?

Civil
Cultural
Destination
Double Weddings
Elopement
Eco-Friendly
Military
Non-Religious
Religious

How many planners are on your team?

25
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Reviews of The Wedding Experience

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User2470251 Sent on 12/16/2015
5 out of 5 rating
I cannot say enough amazing things about the Wedding Experience through Carnival Cruise Lines.
We chose an embarkation day wedding on the Carnival Valor so all of our family and friends could attend, even if they were not sailing.
The wedding experience took care of everything. They made the planning portion so easy (a matter of pick and chose what you want: ceremony, reception, layouts, hows you want things to go etc) and they did the rest. We only had to do the other things on our own (dress, tux, favors, shoes, etc etc).
It was the most stress free experience I have ever had. I would not have changed a thing and it gave us the most beautiful memories possible.
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Jennifer Sent on 04/26/2015
5 out of 5 rating
Everything was perfect from the day I contacted them, until the ceremony and reception were concluded.
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Dana Sent on 12/15/2011
5 out of 5 rating
This experience was a good example of not passing judgement based on the opinion of others. Prior to planning our cruise ship wedding we were a little leery when we found out that cruise lines outsource their wedding planning to another agency. We then came across a few complaints that people had with this agency, and of course were on edge the whole time.


In the end, it turned out to be a wonderful experience with no problems. The three consultants we dealt with were all helpful. Our lead consultant Angela helped us to create all that we wanted for our wedding and it was a success!
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