BearHaven01

Here are a couple of the photos from our ceremony on the Grand Princess in January 2012 for our 41st.

Beautiful and congrats!

Wonderful tips ladies! I had to bump again.

:D

Lovely photos of your recommitment.

Thanks!

We will be doing our vow renewal for our 10th anniversary on the Crown Princess in December 2013. Although we did one two years ago (a re-commitment because we had recently taken on the responsibility of raising one of my grandsons who is special needs), we had always planned to do a renewal for our 10th.

Since we had used Princess' Deluxe Renewal packet last time, I have decided to "surprise" him ;) by getting the wedding packet, because we will have more control of our choices for our "at sea" ceremony/reception and the date/time. (They do warn that date/time can change due to unexpected issues on the ship.) Fortunately, we have always kept our monies separate except for the household accounts, so he won't notice the difference in the charge.

It will just be the two of us, and we are hoping that we will have the same captain we had for our other renewal, Captain Andy, such a wonderful man!

I have also indulged myself in going all out and getting a new wedding dress. I had made mine quickly for the original wedding (and updated it a little for the renewal) to save money, since we had splurged on getting the tartan from Scotland we needed for his kilt and our other tartan accessories. Somehow, I am hoping to get him dressed (he needs help getting into everything) and then getting myself dressed without him seeing my dress until the ceremony. (It ought to be interesting!)

I'm hoping to get help for myself from one of the female staff, since no one is traveling with us, and I can't get some of the underpinnings on by myself. :o Hopefully, the wedding coordinator may be able to make some suggestions on this issue!! If nothing else, maybe hubby will help with everything, but the dress. I know I can rig up a way to pull up the zipper by myself. LOL

At the moment, I am waiting to get the wedding choices packet from the coordinator to see what is available. I know we want to use two of the songs we used during our original ceremony, especially since he wrote the processional especially for me! :D One of my sons is practicing his part on the cello, so we can record it and add it to the track. He played in person originally, of course. He won't be able to attend, since he is one of the wonderful folks who are helping to watch our grandson while we are gone. D loves his Uncle J.

Our reception will just be us two, and hopefully, they won't mind serving it the next day (which is our actual wedding anniversary) on our balcony. :) I'll let you know what they say.

Okay, enough of my yakking....can't tell I'm excited can you? :o

I have ordered a dress and cant wait for it to arrive! the shows the dress in pink...i've ordered it in "champagne".

I love your dress. Mind telling where you got it??

We have one lady at work who is really vocal about any of us who talk about cruising, mainly because she can't cruise due to a dh who won't cruise and putting her son through college. It does tend to put a damper on cruise conversations around work. :rolleyes:

OMG I don't even remember posting that. LOL.

Nice to have our memories jogged once in a while. :)

Thanks for posting all the funny sightings. They are hilarious! I am going to keep my eyes peeled on my next cruise, and who knows, maybe I'll have something to share. :)

We're looking forward to:

• Being rocked to sleep at night
  
• "Bouncing" from side to side as you try to walk down the hall when the ship hits some rough weather :D
  
• Watching the cruise itinerary, wind speed, swells, etc.
  
• Talking with the crew
  

We were on Princess in December, and we loved the food in the MDR and the IC! Only had one item (the curried pumpkin soup) that I didn't really eat. It was ok, but not what I expected.

We tried the buffet once for lunch and thought it was good also.