Carnival Fascination Review
Had the best wedding EVER on the Carnval Fascination!
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A couple of weeks ago we embarked on the Carnival Fascination, and after reading so many reviews I found helpful, I figured it would only be fair to post our review of our wedding!
We had no idea what to expect so I expected things to go wrong. I can honestly say NOTHING went wrong with our wedding. Prior to the wedding we dealt with the wedding department and pamphlets who I felt were pretty vague, so it is surprising to get on the ship and have it all go so perfectly! They must really know what they're doing.
We chose a cruise out of Jacksonville because a lot of our guests were from the east coast and we wanted them to be able to drive. This resulted in a lot of people being able to come. We booked our wedding onboard the Fascination while docked in Nassau. This was changed a couple of times but we decided against the beach wedding because of the heat and pictures, and also because our main goal was for people to have fun. We booked the Let's Celebrate Bigger - 2 hour reception to follow. Prior to boarding we had been planning the wedding for at least 6 months. There wasn't much we could plan with the cruise line, but we did some stuff differently because of the helpful reviews here. I bought our flowers off of easy - they're "real touch" flowers because I felt like flowers were a main part of the overall color coordination. My Maid of Honor was a big planner so she organized things such as wishing rocks, flower pedals, the guest book, etc.. We had 36 people going and so I had to do the paperwork for the guest list quite a few times and they didn't give me a hassle to change things. We stopped the changes about a week prior. My advice to anyone doing this is, let people know that the guest list will be locked by a certain date. I figured with common wedding etiquette people would assume this, but they didn't, and it caused a lot of problems and extra money out of pocket for us. Two weeks prior to our wedding, Jessica from the wedding department called and finalized everything. She told us what room the ceremony would be in and where the reception would be held during this convo. It was a short and sweet phone call because she had it all down to a T.
Cabin Review
Our housekeeper's name was Made and he was so nice and did a great job every day. All of the crew referred to us on a first name basis, even the baby! I loved the crew!