I've found other people's reviews so helpful, I wrote one hoping it might help someone else.
This was our wedding cruise, so my now-husband and I gathered our group of 18 family and friends together in Manhattan on July 9th for a Fun Ship cruise to Canada. We were joined by 34 non-sailing guests. I'm writing a separate wedding review over in the Honeymoon forum, and will post only about our cruising experience here. We booked a total of 6 staterooms through the cruise line and a Personal Vacation Planner we had used on a previous occasion. His attention was exemplary; he kept in touch, answered all our questions about cabin amenities, and applied discounts as they became available.
My husband and I are 44-50, and this was our 8th Carnival cruise. The group we traveled with had teens (16, 17 and 18) and adults ranging from 25 years to 84 years. Half were first-time cruisers. We chose this cruise because departure from New York meant more of our Philadelphia-based family could come to the wedding. The itinerary was short enough some of our cruising guests could fit it into their work demands, whereas a longer cruise would have meant they could not be with us. Also, we had sailed the Victory before and remembered her fondly.