BrídeachBhuile

Yes this has happened before and will happen again. St Thomas is an island which the ship docks at, so this helps as the ships will skip a tender port easier then a regular port. My wedding planner has been doing weddings on st Thomas for eight years, she says with over 300 weddings a year the ship has only skipped port 5 times. She also told me that if the ship was to skip port they will try and refund all money, what usually doesn't get refunded is cake and flower costs.

 

To me it's a risk I am willing to take to have a dream wedding. Then again I'm very easy going and know that if I was to miss the port I'm fine with gathering a group of friends and having my father Wed us on a deck of the ship (he is a boat capt :))

Thank you so much for the reply Bo59rt, that has really put my mind at ease about the whole thing and I feel so excited now about planning it all! That's great advice to choose a port where the ship docks, I wouldn't have thought of that, must look into St. Thomas! How cool that your dad's a captain :cool:

We will be getting married April 1, 2014 on St. Thomas :D. Ceremony and reception will be off ship.

Hi there, so excited to see this thread! Myself and my fiancé are recently engaged and just starting to plan for a 2014 wedding! We are looking to do something similar to you OP, as in get married off ship using an independent wedding planner. The wedding packages offered by the cruise liners seem like a whole lot of money for very little! However I am so afraid that the ship's itinerary will change at the last minute and we will miss our own wedding, and this is putting me off booking anything. :confused: Has this happened to anyone or am I worrying over nothing? Thanks in advance for any advice! :o