DO NOT GET MARRIED HERE (full review published on Wedding Wire).

I got married at the end of December of 2023, and it has taken me until the end of March of 2024 to be able to sit down and write a review because of how upset I still am.

Despite the reviews, our coordinator was AWFUL. Not only did she have me so stressed on my wedding day I was crying, but because she was so uncoordinated, disorganized and did not communicate with us in a timely manner, nor did she communicate with our vendor (like our cake which was delivered to the wrong ship and caused our wedding ceremony to be delayed an hour), she caused me and my husband a lot of stress. She did not listen to what I wanted when setting up the decor and instead my bridal party spent a lot of time when we got on the ship setting everything up the right way (which was frustrating given I had walked our coordinator through everything at the rehearsal). Our altar that I spent so much time making, was hung incorrectly so that it was in my husband’s face (he’s 6’6”) during our ceremony. We had guest items and bubbles that we wanted handed out upon our guests’ arrival to have during the ceremony, but that never happened and they remained in their boxes. Due to her lack of preparation, we spent an hour's worth of sailing time and money sitting at the dock doing nothing waiting for our cake when we could've just moved the ceremony up and done a dockside wedding. The DJ played the wrong walk out song, and due to our coordinator not following our timeline at all, instead of our guests eating while our photos were being taken, we were delayed even further because it turns out dinner was not served until after our photos were done being taken almost 45 minutes after our ceremony ended. Due to both the delays between our cake not being delivered on time and dinner not being served on time, we did not get to do a champagne toast, a cake cutting ceremony, speeches that were prepared by my husband and myself, our best man, or my matron of honor. The tables were supposed to be released for the buffet in a certain order where our immediate families and those that had traveled out of state would eat first, but instead she dismissed them so our families and bridal/groom parties were last and barely got any food (they didn’t get any dessert either). My husband and I stressed many times about the importance of wanting to spend as much time as possible talking with and spending time with our guests - and in the end, we only got about an hour. The DJ did not follow our song list requests and my matron of honor had to ask him more than once to play the music we had specifically requested. We also had planned and wanted to do a send-off ceremony but when we pulled back up to the docks (I was on the top deck) no announcement was made and instead my guests were rushed off and my husband and I didn't get the chance to thank anyone for coming or say goodbye.

Overall, the lack of communication was awful and could have been handled way more efficiently which would have avoided a lot of stress. The crew was polite and treated us well. My guests said the food was good, but my husband and I will never step foot on Yacht Starship again, not even to celebrate our anniversary as we had hoped to do before all of this went down. I will never recommend them to any bride and groom to be, because this in the end, was the biggest waste of money. I might expect this from an amateur coordinator and venue - but not a regular host of cruises and events.