The Globe Trotter's Guide To A Cruise Wedding
Get hitched on a cruise as you sail through the most exotic locations!
Looking for something new for your wedding ceremony? A cruise wedding could be your 'something different. A cruise is the perfect place to celebrate your special day, having the ceremony mid-ocean under the moonlight with all your loved ones sounds magnificent.
There are a number of cruises available at the most exotic locations that’ll cater to all your wedding needs. A cruise wedding doesn’t only make the perfect wedding venue but comes with the add-on luxury of spending your first night as a married couple on the cruise, call it a honeymoon!
A cruise wedding does sound like a dream come true and you might want to get to planning it soon, but here are a few things you should know before you start looking up nautical-themed favours. As one opting for a cruise journey, you might choose to be in international waters but to officiate the wedding you’ve to have the wedding in India onboard while the ship is still in port, as an Indian wedding wouldn’t be official in international waters.
You might be wondering if there are cruises that sail in India and there are! The stunning destinations that are covered are Kochi, Goa, Chennai, Mumbai, and Lakshadweep. Princess Cruise Lines offers wonderful packages for Indian weddings to perform the ceremony on the sea, and while the captain has to perform the ceremony for legalities, you can always have a priest or minister to perform religious ceremonies too. Carnival Cruise Liners is another one of the cruises offering a venue for wedding ceremony onboard.
Royal Caribbean, Star Cruise, and Cruise Bay cover exotic destinations and also let you host your wedding on board.
If you’re bound on having a wedding at a stunning location away from home, just host the ceremony once the ship is on the port. It’s common for cruise liners that cover southeast Asia to manage ceremonies in this manner, just like a destination wedding with the magic of sea all around.
The perk of having a ceremony onboard? Loads of entertainment options for you and your guests. From gala dinners, cultural nights, gaming arcade, astounding locations, to outdoor sports, surfboarding, ice skating and so much more, are you excited yet?
With a lot of wedding planners exclusively dealing with cruise weddings, it’s so much easier to have the perfect nautical wedding.
Assisted by Divya Aggarwal
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