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Hi Tina! First of all, CONGRATULATIONS! I am in awe with all the great ideas you had while putting your wedding together! I just booked my Carnival Cruise wedding out of Port Canaveral for May 2015 and am not completely confident about the decision. I feel like even though the wedding ceremony and reception will turn out to be less stressful, the getting people there, and staying within the 50 non sailing guest head count will be more stressful. I have so many questions for you and hope you don't mind answering some of them. What was your overall experience with your wedding coordinator? Were they helpful in pointing you in the right direction/ making decisions? When it came to inviting people to the wedding, were you concerned about the 50 non sailing guest limit? If so, how did you send out save the dates knowing that you may have to turn people away if too many decided not to sail? Did you bring decorations on to the cruise ship for the wedding or did you just leave it the way they decorated? How did you coordinate a rehearsal dinner without knowing what was actually going to happen? Did you have to already have your hair done when you got to the cruise ship? Were you and the groom together at boarding and then go to separate staterooms to get ready? Were you pleased with how the ceremony ran, since there wasn't a rehearsal? For the reception, were you able to pick the song for your first dance, daddy-daughter dance, mother-son dance or was it just provided? Was the hour and a half reception actually enough time? Did you do a bouquet toss etc? Did you work with your wedding coordinator to book the private events that you hosted on the ship for your guests throughout the cruise? How was the photographer? Did you end up loving the pictures that they took? Thank you so much for anything that you can help me with! Katrina