Popularity of having a cruise ship wedding has grown over the past 5 years, not surprisingly as a luxury cruise ship can be a fun and exciting location for a wedding, you can combine a ceremony and reception with your honeymoon and still have all your family and friends around you to share in the experience.

Weddings take place while the ship is in port at various destinations like the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Far East or Baltic. You can choose to have it either onboard the ship, or have the ceremony on land at a picturesque beach in Hawaii or the Mexican Rivera or for something completely different, on a glacier in Alaska. Then you can have the reception onboard with all your non sailing family and friends before sailing off into the distance on your honeymoon.

For a wedding like you see in old movies you can get married at sea on the decadent Grand Princess, it has its own very romantic wedding chapel and the captain has authority to marry you at sea. Most major cruise lines offer wedding packages and great cruise deals, however with the exception of the Grand Princess you will need to bring your own official to perform the ceremony.

Like most weddings its best to have a look around so you can get the most out of your budget.