Explore New Orleans in Style - 5 Tours for Your Destination Wedding Weekend

It’s easy to get wrapped up in the excitement, prep, and planning of your New Orleans destination wedding.

But while your big day takes priority, it’s important to take some time and experience everything New Orleans has to offer as a destination. It’s your destination wedding after all, so enjoy the city!

Ready to explore New Orleans in style? Check out these three unique tours for exploring the city during your wedding weekend.

New Orleans Aerial Tours

Nothing puts your big day in perspective like a bird’s eye view of the entire Crescent City.

With a New Orleans Aerial Tour, you get a one-of-a-kind tour of every iconic New Orleans spot. You’ll see your favorite local landmarks, neighborhoods, and other cultural gems like never before.

From the bayou to the Caesars Superdome, from the Mississippi river to Lake Pontchartrain, you can experience it all in one flight.

Plus, you can turn your sightseeing into a romantic trip with your fiancé – sign up for the “Love in the Air” special tour and let Cupid's Pilots take you on a 30, 45, or 60-minute romantic flight by airplane over the City of New Orleans.

The exclusive tour even includes a toast of champagne and chocolate treat for you and your sweetheart!

Royal Carriages

For a more old-fashioned experience, why not treat yourself to a Victorian-era chauffeur?

Royal Carriages offers mule-drawn tours that take you through New Orleans most historic neighborhood in style.

You can discover New Orleans in an authentic way with a carriage ride through the French Quarter and get insight into interesting history with top-rated tour guides.

Royal Carriage tours are great for skipping the crowd of the street, putting up your feet, and relaxing as you see the beautiful sites of the French Quarter. Your trip features all the essentials: history, culture, and architectural landmarks of New Orleans' oldest district.

Cajun Encounters Night Swamp Tour

Want a real adventure for your destination wedding weekend? The Cajun Encounters Night Swamp Tour is a real one-of-a-kind experience, offering an authentic tour of one of America’s most unique ecosystems.

The waterways and bayous that surround New Orleans are as awe-inspiring as the city itself, and you can take an up close and personal tour of the Honey Island Swamp. It’s classified as one of the treasured and protected wetlands surrounding New Orleans.

In the company of an expert captain, you’ll get a serene view of the sun setting on the beautiful bayou – a unique experience that you can’t find anywhere else.

And as night settles in, your tour boat shines a spotlight on the nocturnal world that’s so rarely seen!

Doctor Gumbo Culinary & Cocktail Tours 

If your time in New Orleans is packed with wedding events, culinary and cocktail tours help make the best use of time. Taste classic New Orleans dishes and drinks all while exploring the sights of the city. 

Enter historic French Quarter bar venues on Doctor Gumbo’s cocktail tour and enjoy carefully a crafted cocktail at each stop. Learn about the origins of the Sazerac—created right here in New Orleans—which may be the first ever cocktail. 

For those interested in the classic New Orleans dishes, there is an alternative culinary tour. Sample dishes across five locations and taste the mouthwatering flavors of gumbo, boudin, po-boys, pralines, and more. The company also offers a vegetarian option for the tour featuring black-eyed pea soup. 

If both of these tours interest you, you’re in luck! Try the Combo Cocktail and Food History Tour to try a little bit of everything the New Orleans culinary scene has to offer. 

Flambeaux Bicycle Tours 

Bikes are one of the best ways to get around town. Settled onto flat land, bike rides in New Orleans are leisurely and fun.  

Led by expert guides, Flambeaux Bicycle Tours offers group excursions with in-depth lessons on the cultural and political history of the Big Easy. 

Biking allows you to cover more ground than walking tours and explore areas where bus tours are not allowed. 

Tours are available in the French Quarter, Mid-City, or Garden District. If you’re interested in biking in other areas around the city or you just prefer to do your own thing, Flambeaux also offers bike rentals for up to 7 days. View the sites, stop for a bite, or grab a drink whenever you please. 

Plus, biking is a fun, fast, and eco-friendly means of transportation. See here to explore more bike tour offerings. 

All three of these spectacular New Orleans adventures let you see New Orleans in style – for more special ways to explore the city, be sure to check out all of the romantic New Orleans tours available!