I would like to start the review by letting the reader know that my wife and I were married on this trip which I fully urge anyone to do however, not with Royal Caribbean.

We originally wanted to book a trip with Holland America as we have had an outstanding experience on the Oosterdam. We should have stuck with that. We spoke with some travel agents and wanted suggestions for what cruise line would be best to get married on. They insisted that we would like Royal Caribbean more as it catered to younger people and families. Although I made them aware that age of passengers didn't matter, what we cared most about was food quality and variety, service, and entertainment. We knew that Holland America went above and beyond our expectation in those categories. Even though we did our research and noticed that the passenger to crew ratio was way higher in the Explorer of the Seas, we wondered how so few crew members could service such a mass of people. My wife and I remember saying to each other at one point, "It's a cruise, how bad could it be? I'm sure everything will be fine."...and against our better intuition we booked it.

So let me start this way, booking the trip was simple, and booking the wedding was also simple. Royal Caribbean sent us a package of islands we could be married on, the cost of each, the location on each island and all the services and upgrades we could have for the ceremony such as # of guests, open bar, food, steel drummer, flower arbor, live music, all of which we selected to do on St. Thomas. If you are thinking about getting married in the caribbean, do it! All of the above pretty much cost under $3000 and we had 30 guests! Read more