Cruise Countdown - 9 Days - Getting to know the Carnival Dream - Elegant Nights, Dress Code and Photos

On this 9 day Holiday sailing we will have 2 elegant dress nights.  These nights will be Christmas night and Dec 30^th (too bad the 31^st falls on the last night of the cruise – would’ve been awesome for NYE to be the second formal night).  To help clarify what Elegant means to Carnival I found the following:

 

Cruise Elegant Dining Dress Code:  Gentlemen - Dress slacks, dress shirts. We also suggest a sport coat. If you wish to wear suits and ties or tuxedos, by all means we invite you to do so.  Ladies - Cocktail dresses, pantsuits, elegant skirts and blouses; if you‘d like to show off your evening gowns, that's great too! 

The dress code for the Steakhouse is Cruise Elegant (Jeans permitted on Cruise Casual evenings).

With Christmas night be an elegant dress, it may be nice to have a family picture.  Uncle Larry and Tara…I don’t mean that one of you has to be out of the picture, we want you in it J (too bad we won’t have Matt Lee this cruise!)…so I found an interesting post that may be great for us.  Carnival debuted a new idea on the Carnival Dream with regard to pictures.  See below:

 

Carnival is offering a new program where you can schedule a private photo session with a specific photographer. We decided to try it. Our photographer's name was Karel and originally from the Czech Repuplic. We scheduled the session with him the afternoon of the second elegant dining night. He took us to various locations on Deck Promenade and ended on Deck 11. He took several pictures with us in the foreground with the setting sun in the background. We didn't realize it at the time, but we had an audience of people watching us taking the pictures on Deck 11, who started applauding and giving us the thumbs up after the session. We met him Karel the next afternoon where he showed us the results. All I can say is WOW! The photos were awesome! There are a couple of packages where you can purchase just a coffee table book, or the coffee table book, a 20X30 canvas of the photo of your choice, all 42 prints, and a CD with all the photo images. We bought the second package. I wil say, its a little pricey, but we felt worth the price.

 

This peaked my interest because it isn’t the traditional stand on the staircase or in front of a painted drop cloth.  We could get very creative J.  We could even do casual shots if everyone preferred…or maybe both!  I wonder how popular this program is?  Should we try to reserve when we first get on board?