AmyD102

How did you tell everyone to bring stuff for the door decorating and the white night?

 

We are having the free cocktail party also. So far we have 40 people that will be cruising with us.

 

To insert pictures, there is a small yellow box towards the top of the reply box that has a mountain and sun in black on it. You could also use http://tinypic.com/ which would make the picture bigger than what they allow you to upload here.

I actually sent out a letter with my wedding invitations, In the letter it outlined what time we needed to be at the pier, what documents sailing and non-sailing guests needed, the TA info, the pier info, our hotel info, i also included the special activities we were doing. We also had a wedding website were we put the same info, and about two weeks before we started making phone calls to remind everyone, i took a few ppl, my husband did, we also had our siblings and parents calling everyone who was booked on the cruise so everyone would remember!

We also made up a cruise newsletter, i'm sure you have seen them on here, outlining our activities, what nights they were on, and it also had our ports, and everyone's room numbers on it. We had our made of honor and best man go around right after the wedding and slide them under everyone's door, so every room got one. It turned out to be very helpful for a lot of ppl that week!

White night turned out being a huge success, even ppl who forgot their clothes (my brother!) were able to borrow or come up with something since we did it half way thru the cruise and we had already been into a few ports. Here are some pictures! (thanks for the tips!)

The first pic is our table for dinner, my husband and I and our immediate families. The rest are various pics of the rest of our group :D

This sounds like a lot of fun! Did you provide the supplies for decorating the rooms? What all did you use? What did some of the doors look like? Did you do this on the first full day?

 

For the white out, was that on a formal night? If so, was it the same formal night as the cocktail party?

We did not supply the door decorations, we gave everyone the first full day at sea to decorate and we went around on the second at sea day to "judge" the doors, we gave the 1st and 2nd place rooms each a prize. For my door we did a "wedding theme" (obviously..lol) Everyone was very creative, some used streamers, others used pictures along with other decorations, one room "wrapped" there door with wrapping paper with tropical fish on it, I looved seeing what everyone came up with.

For the white night we had it on a casual night because it gave ppl more options of what they wanted to wear, for example; I wore a white dress, my husb wore a white polo, with light beige shorts and white flip flops, My mom wore white capris with a white shirt, etc.

We had our Cocktail party on a formal night, i actually forgot that we also had a group photo, but this was one of our "perks" for have so many sailing staterooms. That was done on the other formal night. It was nice that we had the pic for one and the party for the other.

If i can figure out how to post some pictures of white night i can, but i have no clue how to do it..lol!

Hope this helps :D

We has about 89 guests on our cruise, we didn't do too many group activities, since there were so many people we knew it'd be hard to coordinate. We did do a decorating our door contest, which everyone loved and made it easy to identify each others cabins, we had an hour long cocktail party on one of our formal nights, and we did a white night where everyone in our party dressed in white(everyone's fav night, we got soo many good photos and everyone on the ship kept asking us why we were in white, it was awesome) Other than that we had some informal parties in our stateroom and met at the nightclub just about every night. We also told everyone in advance what shore excursions we were taking in case people wanted to join us.

Hope this Helps :)

The videographer was an extra 500 or 700 depending on what package you pick, The photos are extra, we purchased the $1500 package because they were so amazing, the tux rentals are extra $110 each but you get to keep them the whole week. If u want to provide lunch for your non sailing guests on the lido deck its $10 a guest. There are flower upgrades but they are very expensive and i have heard not very good, i went with angelsaccents.com it cost me about $700 for everything including a cake topper, two flower girl bask, ring bearer pillow, 4 bridesmaids/groomsmen, two moms and grandmoms boutineers. they were beautiful, well worth the extra cost. The DJ if you are having it in the disco was an extra $100 and you have to pay extra for the wedding coordinator if you go over 50 people.

I think thats pretty much it, these are the prices for the Miracle in NY, i'm not sure if they will be exactly the same for you, If i could do it all over again i would def choose Carnival my wedding turned out AMAZING!! hope this helps!