Wedding Cruise Cost Calculator

Many couples ask us how much a wedding costs. It comes as a big surprise to many, that a wedding on a boat with Cape Ann Cruises offers an incredible value compared to traditional weddings, while fully maximizing your romantic experience in an actual picturesque nautical setting, which you can’t beat for lasting memories. While the average wedding cost in Massachusetts was $37,700 (2019) and the national average was $33,900 (add $10,000 for engagement rings), you can still have an incredible wedding at a fraction of those costs on a boat. Calculate your wedding costs below:

Wedding Cruise Cost Calculator

Complete Wedding Packages Available

Wedding Services Offered for Couples

We are all about reducing stress and maximizing joy at Cape Ann Cruises. Let our Certified Wedding Coordinator help plan your special event so it goes off with the best kind of hitch possible. Our Wedding Cost Calculator will help you budget for your wedding. We work directly with some amazing vendors and have rolled our services into a tidy package that’s ship shape and stellar to make your life a breeze. Pick and choose services as you please.

  • Catering & Bar

  • Wedding Cake & Desserts

  • Wedding Flowers/Arrangements

  • Photography

  • DJ & Live Music Options

  • Wedding Coordinator

  • Wedding Official. Get married by an actual Captain. Captain Jeff is registered to legally perform marriages in Massachusetts.

The “Wedding Cost Calculator” can be used for the following wedding related activities

  • Wedding Ceremonies

  • Wedding Receptions

  • Engagement Dinners

  • Rehearsal Dinners

  • Wedding Guest Activities (private whale watches, fishing, island hopping, lighthouses and more)

  • Bridal Showers (Jack & Jill Bridal Showers)

  • Photo Shoots: Engagement & Wedding Photos

  • Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties

  • Wedding Anniversaries

Our certified event planner has extensive experience working with couples having been the director of a 500 person event/banquet hall for 12 years.

Trip Types

  • Gloucester Harbor Wedding Tour (default trip for weddings): Experience scenic and historic Gloucester Harbor. You’ll catch the best views from the water of castles, beaches, lighthouses, mansions, schooners, wildlife, and Gloucester’s beloved dishing fleet. Gloucester is America’s oldest fishing port after all, and just turned 400 in 2023!

  • Lighthouse Tours

  • Seal Watching 

  • Annisquam River tour

  • Circumnavigate Cape Ann

  • Custom Locations/Destinations

    • Custom Pickup/Drop-off Locations or Round-trip from Gloucester (examples - pickup in Boston and Cruise the beautiful coast to Salem, Gloucester, Rockport, Newburyport, or write us and let us know what fun ideas you have)

    • Custom Destinations (billed hourly from when we leave our dock in Gloucester to when we return): Boston, Salem, Portsmouth, Isles of Shoals, Cape Cod and South Shore, Kittery, Portland, Points in Down East Maine).

  • City (Boston) Cruises - Need at least 4-5 hours (music and alcohol available) 

  • Foliage Cruise - a fall favorite!

  • Halloween and Other Themed Cruises - Themed cruise into Salem harbor - Available throughout the month of October (or anytime if you love Halloween). 

  • Fishing - Deep Sea and Blue Fin Tuna Fishing ( as well as striped bass, bluefish)

  • Whale Watching - Private Groups only. (Please see our dock neighbors at Seven Seas Whale Watches for public whale Watches and large group charters of up to 150 passengers).

  • Swimming/Beach Destination

  • Island Hopping 

  • Sunset Cruise & Sunrise Cruise

  • Lunar events

  • Music Cruise

  • Wine/beer Tasting Cruise

  • Lighthouse Cruise

  • Themed Party Cruise

  • No snorkeling, diving, kayaking, wake boarding, and water skiing allowed from the vessel