Showing posts with label red tape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label red tape. Show all posts

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Tied up with red tape

My wedding has been a long time coming. Not only did it seem to take me forever to convince Bradley to propose, since we got engaged 4 months ago, very little progress has been made at very little fault of any one person. However, I am starting to become very frustrated with this lack of progress!!!

Bradley and I decided that we wanted to get married on a Caribbean cruise in August, 2011 by the captain while at sea. I did my research and found that only two cruise lines, Princess and Celebrity, are legally able to perform ceremonies at sea. So I picked the Princess in March 2010, before their summer 2011 schedule was out. When I called the booking agents, they told me that the schedule would probably come out in May. Starting May 1, I began checking the Princess website at least once a day. On June 5th, they put out their Caribbean schedule for the entirety of 2011. The one month they aren't going to the Caribbean? August. After a wee bit of panicking, Bradley and I decided to go with a different cruise line. I researched again. Carnival was our final answer.

Because we will (hopefully) have people attending from all over the world (and because my step-mother is a travel agent), I decided that we would book the cruise through a travel agent. I would book and handle the wedding portion of the cruise and the travel agency would handle the cruise and airline portion. I have attempted to book my wedding three times now and, each time I try, I am told I need one more thing in order to book it. First, I was told that I needed payment in full. As I was unsure of the status of our Wedding Fund, I held off. When that was confirmed, I called again, ready to pay. I was told I needed a booking number. I contacted the travel agency and they got be a booking number. Just now I called with money and my booking number and I was told I needed my cabin number. WTF?!?! People, can you not just tell me everything I need the first time around?!?! So now I have to wait until tomorrow to book my wedding because the travel agency is not in my time zone and it's closed for the day.

I just want to book my wedding, people!!!!! Can we please clear all of the red tape so I can?!?!?!