Welcome to ft and congratulations, I hope you have a great trip and it all goes to plan.
To echo BBBs comments, sadly we carry so many customers to their weddings that we are not able to offer upgrades on that basis, although there are often great upgrade offers online at manage my booking and considering the overall budgets for weddings it is worth considering that, after all it is a special trip and hopefully a once in a lifetime. One point I would make though it that most dress carriers are outside our hand luggage dimensions and there is a good chance that it will not be allowed a carry on. BA.com has advice on packing a wedding dress and that is the advice I would recommend.
Weddings can be stressful at the best of times, add to that the logistics of flying there and getting guests etc there too and it can be a real headache. I am sure that your fiancé will become more and more stressed as the date approaches. My strong suggestion would be to plan for back ups at the destination, don't rely on the hotel or resort to arrange it for you as you may have differing standards or expectations to the person out there.
Originally Posted by
BingBongBoy
Hello!
Welcome to FT!
You will be able to take your wedding dress onboard with you if you prefer, in a dress carrier. On the 777, they will be able to find somewhere for it.
I am afraid, I doubt there will be any waiving of additional baggage fees. Although, if you do it online before you go to the airport, you will get it cheaper than at the airport.
The upgrade question. I highly doubt that you would be able to get a complimentary upgrade. There are strict rules that both ground staff and crew have to work to and unfortunately, upgrading for wedding is not something that we would be able to upgrade for, in fact, there is hardly any reason that we can upgrade people for. Routes which are popular with couples, honeymoons and the likes are often rather over subscribed on the wanting an upgrade for a special occasion.
Hopefully others will answer any more questions you have.
BBB