Hello fellow brides-to-be!
DH and I were married Nov 2nd at the amazing Atlantis resort in Nassau, Bahamas. Us, our two amazing photographers, Melissa and Mandi of Melissa McClure Photography (based out of CA), and 23 of our family and friends traveled on a cruise ship
with us to get there. It was a 5 day cruise, very inexpensive and that price of course included food for the guests all week! We docked in Freeport, Bahamas first and we did our TTD session. Blog here with a few photos:
http://melissamcclure.net/2011/05/05/shawna-and-jason-bahamas-trash-the-dress-session/
The following day, we docked in Nassau (our wedding day)! DH and I got off the ship early, and got a taxi to the Atlantis resort to meet with our wedding coordinator that the resort provides with their wedding package. This includes a limo with
escort to get our marriage license, our officiant, beach location, my bouquet, some additional flowers and more. The guys got ready in an amazing suite overlooking the ocean at the resort first and then the girls went to get ready.
Then we got MARRIED!!! on an amazing beach called "Cove Beach". The weather was beautiful...very hot, but there was a nice breeze at the ceremony location, coming off of the water. After the ceremony, we had a cocktail hour right there on the
beach, along with our wedding cake and then we all headed back to the ship for a 6:00pm dinner seating! We were treated like a king and queen on the ship that night and it was so much fun!
Our guests can't stop talking about what a great idea it was! It cost them approximately $500 for a 5 day Caribbean vacation with food included all week. That includes air fare to get to the cruise port location. I DEFINITELY recommend this as
an inexpensive way to have a DW. It is less stress on the guests, financially. We invited only 26 close family and friends and 23 came!
Here is the blog of a few of our wedding day photos:
http://melissamcclure.net/2011/05/17/jason-and-shawna-atlantis-resort-nassau-bahamas/comment-page-1/#comment-8628
and here is the slideshow that she put together for us, with a combination of more TTD and wedding photos:
www.melissamcclure.com/slideshows/morathwedding
Happy planning! :)
