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Hey Philip!

We are getting married on the Allure in May 2012, & was wondering how your experience went. Do you have any advice or suggestions for us. We are getting married on May 2, 2012 when she pulls into St. Thomas, we are getting married aboard the ship. Look forward to hearing from you!

 

Thank you so much!

Hi Aavvento,

We had a great wedding onboard Allure. She truly is a beautiful ship. Our wedding was on the day om embarkation, thus everything was quite a rush. Having the ceremony a few days into the sailing should allow for a more relaxed experience.

Can't believe it's already been almost a year ago...

If there is anything in particular you're interested to find out, feel free to ask.

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We recently sailed the Allure and I concur with this poster. Further, the Pinnacle Lounge is just across from the Chapel. The P Lounge is very elegant.

 

Best wishes for a healthy and happy life together.

M

Hi cruisegirl1,

Thank you for the input. We have decided on the Pinnacle Chapel for the ceremony and then the Pinnacle Lounge afterwords for the reception. There will be around 45 guests, which makes it a perfect fit. The elegant setting with the incredible views made us decide easier.

Counting down the days!

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We're getting married onboard the Allure on 5/1. Of course, this means I won't be able to get back to you with any comments/thoughts regarding our experience in time for your ceremony. But, we have chosen the Dazzles because of pics provided to us by our wedding coordinator. The pics she provided of the chapel were bland/ordinary. We're expecting six sailing guests (maybe 4 more soon) and 10 non-sailing guests (we limited it to 10 because we didn't want to pay for a reception, after all, the 7-day cruise IS the reception!).

WOW, sounds wonderful. Good to see other people that also thinks early May on Allure is the best time!

We are counting down the days and simply can't wait!

All the best on your final preparations and the wedding!

:)

I'm sorry I can't add any suggestions or opinions about your ceremony venue, but I do want to wish you a very warm congratulations and many years of happiness in your marriage.

Thank you! That's very nice of you!

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Phillip,

 

In answer to your question, I think it depends on what you & your bride want....My new hubby & I got married on the MV of Allure, but we chose to have a private ceremony on the deck of our Aqua Theatre Suite. Perfect, quiet, romantic and no extra charges.

 

It's up to you...we looked at the chapel, elegant and very non-denominational. Quite frankly, I think it more of a nice banquet room, leather chairs, nice art, floor to ceiling glass windows, but nothing special. I can't address food, during, after, or before.

 

So, there's my take on it. Our "reception" was to go to 150 Central Park for the tasting dinner experince instead. Nice.

 

Cheers & good luck!

 

A toast ahead of time just given to us after the ceremony..."May the next 20 years be everybit as wonderful as the last 20 minutes!"

Hi Sayuri,

wow... that sounds like it was a special occasion. Thank you for your thoughts and recommendations.

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Hey Phillip me and my wife stayed in a loft suite so we walked past the Chapel every day. It's very nice. My buddy is getting married in Mexico, and the only thing we kept saying was, "They need to get married here, on Allure!" It is going to be awesome. Congrats and trust me I wish my friend would get hitched on Allure.

That is great! Everything about Allure seems to be falling right into place.

146 Days...

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Sailed on Allure's Labadee Extravaganza. The chapel is lovely and quite large compared to the chapels on Freedom Class and Voyager Class ships. It is also easier to reach than on those other ships because you don't have to climb stairs. The rear of the chapel features floor to ceiling glass windows.

 

The Pinnacle Lounge is a very elegant spot just across from the chapel. It too has floor to ceiling windows with a stunning view. There are comfortable sofas.

 

I think RCI has designed a wonderful place for a ship board wedding and reception. I don't know how many guests you are planning on having, but I'd estimate you could easily accommodate fifty in these facilities.

 

Best wishes to you on your upcoming wedding. Have a great cruise too.

Thanks! That's great, the entrance / hallway between the elevators and the chapel does look great and better thought through. I'm glad the chapel is larger, we saw the chapel on Freedom and based our decision to get married on board the next newest Royal vessel on that...

We will probably be around 40 guests... I counted the seats in some Allure photos and it seems to be able to accommodate 50 guests.

I personally would not move to Dazzles. The view is not as great, unless you want to be over looking the boardwalk.

Thank you for affirming my thoughts!

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Congrats Phllip on your wedding aboard the Allure in May.

 

I don't have any advice to give, and I wish you the best of luck getting the advice of other CC members. Just wanted to say I will be on the cruise with you!!

 

Congratulations!!!!

Thank you! I'm sure you will see us, please come say hi.

We are really looking forward to the wedding and the cruise!

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Philip, Congratulation's on your up-coming wedding in May on the Allure of the Seas..! How exciting that has to be for you and your bride-to-be. I will be sailing on the Allure on 13 days and will let you know if I encounter any couples that have married onboard and what their thoughts are on the experience. I wish I could be more helpful to you but I'm sure others reading this post will be happy to give their own thoughts regarding your wedding on Allure. Best Wishes for a long and happy, healthy married. :)

Thank you!

It is our understanding that the default reception venue on board is the Pinnacle Lounge (as it's primarily there for wedding receptions). Royal Romance informed us that "additional requests" (like different venues) are made with the ship 2 weeks prior, and not guaranteed.

We were just curious whether there are others on Cruise Critic that went through the same kind of decisions before.

Your input from your upcoming cruise will be appreciated thanks!

Any other critics on here that can share topics like;

Is it even worth trying to hold our reception in Dazzles? The view from the Pinnacle Chapel and Lounge are pretty nice...

What menu options / alcohol / cake etc did people have at your Royal wedding / guest experience, and what is recommended?

Thank you for the interest!

:)

Hi everyone!

We are having our wedding on board Allure of the Seas on May 8 2011.

Are there anyone out there having any comments regarding a wedding on board either Allure or Oasis?

Reception area: If not the Pinnacle Lounge, what? and why?

Menu?

Any input will be highly appreciated!

Ciao!

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Wasn't an allegation. T'was a fact. I caught some of my pictures on it before RCI took it over. They were in violation of my copyright and I had the pictures removed. User also had a Flickr page that they reffered to in the FB page but it was obviously an individual not RCI.

 

I had a long talk with RCI marketing at the time and they didn't know a thing about it. Two months later the FB group was pulled offline completely for a couple of weeks. When it came back up, RCI had control of it.

 

At this point, I don't have any complaints about the group. Whoever had it originally had raided a number of Flickr accounts for pictures and failed to give credit appropriately. RCI has removed the copyrighted work and only has pictures they own so far as I can tell. Which ties in nicely with the rebuilt comment you made and I had no doubt of that fact.

Interesting...

I guess at the end of the day its better that RCI is on Facebook than not being on it at all...

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Haven't seen one. Only FB presence RCI has right now is the page they took over from someone pretending to be RCI a few months ago.

Why would your allegation make any difference to what has been happening the last few months?

M80, a respected company in this field has been hired by Royal Caribbean to oversee their online interests, including their Facebook page.

The entire page was re-build, from scratch.

Same here... no problem for me.

I just wish they could let their international Crown & Anchor Society Members use their section on the website. Currently its only available to U.S Residents (maybe some other "first world" countries too).